get jiggy with lit

PoMo's Wordstock Guide

We offer up a dozen do-not-miss panels, events, and readings for the annual lit dream fest, Wordstock, this weekend at the Convention Center.

10/11/2012 By Aaron Scott

it's "soof-yawn"

Ticket-Sale Alert: Sufjan Stevens

The gifted and eccentric musician is coming to the Aladdin with a X-mas show that sounds nutty even for him. Tix go on sale tomorrow.

10/11/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

blues killer

Interview: Corin Tucker

We talk with Corin Tucker about performing the mom–musician balancing act, the changing face of feminist music, and her band's new album. Corin Tucker Band plays Bunk Bar Saturday.

10/10/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

forest for the trees

OBT's the Body Beautiful Preview + Slide Show

The Oregon Ballet Theatre creates a night of dance around myth and the human form, involving mammoth original sculptures. Opens this weekend.

10/09/2012 By Aaron Scott

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Slideshow: Oregon Ballet Theatre's the Body Beautiful

10/09/2012

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10th Annual FOUND Magazine Tour Hits PDX

Brothers Davy & Peter Rothbart bring voyeuristic snippets from other people's lives from the page to the stage tonight at Powell's and tomorrow at Holocene.

10/08/2012 Edited by Aaron Scott By Meaghan Morawski

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Review: Third Rail's That Hopey Changey Thing

Third Rail Repertory sets us a place at the Apple family table in this astute, humorous, but not always hardy telling of the political drama. Plays thru October 28.

10/07/2012 By Aaron Scott

garden events

MOMIX's Botanica Coming to Portland

MOMIX and Portlander Michael Curry collaborate in a balletic floral extravaganza, coming in Feb-March, 2013

10/05/2012 By Kate Bryant

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Review: NW Dance Project

The local world–class dance company tackles three ambitious world premieres, and award-winner Franco Nieto shines. Playing through Saturday at Lincoln Hall.

10/05/2012 By Aaron Scott

gallery grazing

First Thursday

It might be the last sunny First Thursday. So get (gallery) hopping with our picks for the day and weekend, near and far.

10/04/2012 By Aaron Scott

making stuff look good

Celebrating the Art and Business of PDX Design

Design Week Portland, a new but already noteworthy event, takes place all over town October 9–13.

10/04/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

stripper kicks

Exclusive Interview: Grizzly Bear's Edward Droste

In preview of their concert tonight at the Keller, we talk with Droste about his cousin, Pink Martini's China Forbes, hitting the gay bar with Thomas Lauderdale, and what they have in store for Portland audiences.

10/04/2012 By Aaron Scott

a loving sacrilege

OMG: The Book of Mormon Goes on Sale This Friday!

The biggest Broadway show on Earth (and any other celestial sphere) hits Portland in January. Tickets on sale Friday at 10 am.

10/03/2012 By Aaron Scott

INTERVIEW

Superstar k.d. lang on Portland's Food and Weather

The Grammy-award winning sensation (and new Portlander) sat down with us to chat nosh, rain, and her upcoming benefit dinner with Irving Street Kitchen's Sarah Schafer.

10/03/2012 By Allison Jones

a musical duel

New Music Video: Menomena’s “Plumage”

Assault rifles, smoking jackets, Evel Knievel suits, snifters, and rocket launchers. An outrageous musical one-upmanship that’s the best thing we’ve seen all week.

10/03/2012 By Aaron Scott

ballot ballads

Updated: Local Musicians Pick Sides in Fluoride Fight

The Dandy Warhols and other Portland heavy-hitters play a concert to benefit the ballot campaign against fluoridation this Sunday at Rotture/Branx.

10/02/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

feed me, seymour!

Review: Little Shop of Horrors

Broadway Rose's current production of the musical hits all the right notes: It's gallows-humorous, deliciously campy, and set to a nostalgia-inducing score of late-'50s R&B tunes.

09/28/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

silhouette on fire

Artist Talk: Kara Walker

The controversial art star talks at Reed College on October 2 about her work exploring racism, sexuality, and violence. Her solo exhibit runs through November 18.

09/27/2012 By Randy Gragg Edited by Aaron Scott

because the night...

Win Tickets to Natalie Merchant with the Oregon Symphony

Put your name in the hat for two tix to Natalie Merchant with the Symphony on Thursday, October 4.

09/27/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

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Slide Show Preview: White Bird's Le Grand Continental

This Sunday, over 150 people will fill Pioneer Square with the biggest choreographed dance the city's ever seen. Check out our photo preview.

09/26/2012 By Aaron Scott