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Oregon Symphony presents Masters of Percussion

Preview Zakir Hussain’s transcendent program.

03/28/2012 By Anne Adams

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Back Fence PDX Greatest Hits!

At the Mission Theater Thursday and Friday

03/28/2012 By Aaron Scott

kasher if you can

Interview: Moshe Kasher

Stand up comic Kasher tells writer Alyssa Jaffer how to survive some of his life’s craziest scenarios in preview of his new book, Kasher in the Rye, out tomorrow. by Alyssa Jaffer

03/27/2012 By Aaron Scott

crazy enough to work

Oprah & Rosie Endorse Storm Large

Portland singer and newly-minted memoir author gets a national boost from two powerful women.

03/26/2012 By Anne Adams

50 ways to leave your blanket

Review: Linda Austin’s A head of time

Playing tonight and tomorrow at Imago Theatre

03/24/2012 By Aaron Scott

proof of love

Book Release: Legs Get Led Astray

New Future Tense essay collection reveals an author willing to spill her guts.

03/24/2012 By Anne Adams

UP & COMING

Video: Poetry Smackdown

In preparation for Portland’s first citywide poetry slam on April 25, watch several Madison High School contenders perform their poems

03/23/2012 Edited by Stephen Person

Vox Populi

Vox Populi: We Asked 100 People at a Timbers Game…

03/23/2012

Now Hear This

Music Review: A Wasteland Companion by M. Ward

Part-time Portlander M. Ward makes his way through the wilderness in "A Wasteland Companion".

03/23/2012 By John Chandler

Now Read This

Glamour in Glass

Magic meets Jane Austen in a new novel by award-winning fantasy author Mary Robinette Kowal—reviewed by award-winning fantasy author Jay Lake!

03/23/2012 By Jay Lake

Culturephile

Bump & Rhyme

A high school librarian launches DIY literature into a citywide competition.

03/23/2012 By Aaron Scott

Mudroom

Do This Now! April 2012

Develop a taste for bikes, beaters, coffee, and culture during the month of April.

03/23/2012 Edited by Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Five Questions with… Radiolab

Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich bring their hit public radio program Radiolab to the stage.

03/23/2012 By Aaron Scott

PORTLAND GLOSSARY

Word on the Street: Jerrymandering

Do the French love Portland more than we do?

03/23/2012 Edited by Zach Dundas

Mudroom

The Cleary Century

Happy 96th to Portland’s epoch-spanning kids' author

03/23/2012 By Will Lambeth

Mudroom

The Perfect Party: April 2012

The guests we’d most like at our dinner table this month.

03/23/2012 Edited by Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Ink City

How Portland became the comic book industry’s city of superheroes!

03/23/2012 By Marty Patail

ticket giveaway

Win Tickets to Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown

The folk opera premieres in Portland next Wednesday with a local star-studded cast.

03/22/2012 By Aaron Scott

black & white thinking

Review: Race

David Mamet lets his characters blurt out all their racial prejudices, but doesn’t necessarily pave a path to reconciliation.

03/22/2012 By Anne Adams

to boldly go...

Talks by Two Photographers Who Document the Otherworldly on Earth

03/22/2012 By Aaron Scott