Arts & Culture

Time-Based Art Festival 2013

TBA: Peter Burr at the Works

Day 2: Like some electronic shaman, Burr took us on a multimedia vision quest.

09/14/2013 By Ally Bordas

Time-Based Art Festival 2013

TBA: Lola Arias

Day 2: An evocative, multimedia retelling of the Pinochet dictatorship through the performer's parents' lives. Thru Sunday, Sept 15.

09/14/2013 Photography by Nathan Tucker

Time-Based Art 2013

TBA: CAMPO/Pieter Ampe & Guilherme Garrido

Day 2: "You haven’t laughed until you’ve seen a grown man bellow into the foreskin of another like it’s a blow horn."

09/14/2013 Photography by Aaron Scott

LISTEN

Playlist: Elliott Smith's Portland

Explore the songwriter's PDX references, from “Rose Parade” to “Needle in the Hay”

09/13/2013

WEEKEND PICKS

Top Things To Do This Weekend: Sept 12-15

Pink Martini gets happy with a free concert, the TBA Festival kicks off with a new home, Portland Center Stage takes on its biggest show ever, and more to see you through the sunshine.

09/12/2013 By Portland Monthly Staff Edited by Nathan Tucker

TBA:13

Q&A: The Blow

The New York-via-Portland art-pop duo, playing TBA Sunday and Monday, talks about pop music, their new album, and Lady Gaga.

09/11/2013 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

TICKET GIVEAWAY

Win Tickets to Lee Fields and the Expressions

The soul veteran and his killer band hit the Aladdin on Sept 16 in support of a new album and a 1979 reissue. We've got two tickets to give away.

09/10/2013 By Nathan Tucker

INTERVIEW

Malcolm Gladwell (The Extended Interview)

The best-selling author of The Tipping Point and Blink on his imitators, rooting for the favorite, and becoming Goliath

09/10/2013 By Taylor Clark

TBA:13

The Experts' Guide to PICA's Time-Based Art Festival

Since TBA has grown into an international festival, we asked curators from around the country to give us the inside scoop on their favorite artists. Sept 12–22

09/05/2013 By Aaron Scott

TICKET GIVEAWAY

Win Tickets to Lily Tomlin on Saturday

The versatile and decorated actress and comedian revisits the classics that made her famous in a benefit for Our House. We've got two tickets to give away.

09/05/2013 By Nathan Tucker

VISUAL ARTS

Sept. First Thursday Gallery Guide

A new gallery launches in the Pearl, PNCA gets uncomfortable, TBA spreads the art around, and the art museum showcases Oregon's most significant photographer.

09/05/2013 By Portland Monthly Staff Edited by Nathan Tucker

WEEKEND PICKS

Top Things To Do This Weekend: Sept 5-8

Musicfest NW invades PDX, Typhoon counter-invades the rest of the US, and Portland's theaters open their assault on your fall calendar. That is, the arts get feisty this weekend.

09/04/2013 By Portland Monthly Staff Edited by Nathan Tucker

INSIDE THE MAGAZINE

Arts in the September Issue

All the arts and culture-centric stories from Portland Monthly's September issue in one handy place

09/04/2013 By Tuck Woodstock

STYLE SPOTLIGHT

Future Beauty Exhibit

Well worth a trip to Seattle, the art museum's current special exhibit covering 30 years of Japanese fashion features room after room of exquisite sculptural pieces of wearable art. See it through Sunday.

09/03/2013 By Eden Dawn

ARTS & CULTURE

Fall Arts Calendar 2013

Our picks for the best of Portland music, theatre, arts, and talks in September, October, and November.

09/03/2013

EVENTS

Do This Now: September

Our picks for your calendar this month, from Mount Angel’s Oktoberfest to the Rose City Comic Con.

09/03/2013 By Katie Gourley

CULTURE

Newberg's Drive-In Keeps Americana Alive

How the historic 99W Drive-In keeps an all-American dream flickering for the next generation of movie lovers.

09/03/2013 By Katie Gourley

CULTURE

PDX Band Name Generator

As MusicFestNW invades the city's stages this month, we offer (free for the taking) names for the next generation of Portland bands.

09/03/2013

CULTURE

How the XOXO Festival Charms Cutting-Edge Thinkers

Portland's homegrown ideas fest creates an arts and technology think-tank for the hacker generation.

09/03/2013 By Marty Patail

REVIEW

Book Review: Douglas Lain's 'Billy Moon'

An enchanting magical-realist tale winding through Paris in the radical '60s and Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood.

09/03/2013 By Katie Gourley