bedroom sleuthing

Sex Talks + Q&A with Arianne Cohen

Hate Valentine’s? Go to these three talks to learn to love love again (or at least sex). Plus, the author of The Sex Diaries Project talks with us about how Portlanders differ in their erotic and romantic proclivities.

02/01/2012 By Aaron Scott

see it now

Laura Gibson’s Steamy New Music Video

01/27/2012 By Aaron Scott

mathmusics

Sun Angle + Stay Calm at Rontoms

Watch a cool music video, and allow us to demonstrate Portland’s astronomical band-to human ratio.

01/27/2012 By Anne Adams

infolaugh

Demitri Martin at the Newmark

The multi-talented Daily Show "youth correspondent" and Important Things host makes his own fun using song, drawings, and absurd infographs.

01/26/2012 By Anne Adams

pushed and pulled

Meshi Chavez: …or be dragged

Fertile Ground Festival delivers tense, spooky Butoh with a layered live score.

01/26/2012 By Aaron Scott

Now Hear This

Music Review: Totalwerks Vol 1 by One Model Nation

Dandy Warhols front man branches out on record and in print.

01/26/2012 By Derek Pettie

Now Read This

Blue Thread

By Ruth Tenzer Feldman

01/26/2012 By Eliza Canty-Jones

Culturephile

Dark Star

A museum showcase channels Mark Rothko’s strange radiance—and complex local roots.

01/26/2012 By Randy Gragg

Mudroom

Do This Now! February 2012

This month, there's heroic tales from Sebastian Junger, a hoops homestand with the Blazers, and new album from Y La Bamba.

01/26/2012

Mudroom

Five Questions For… David Wolman

The Portland author’s new book, The End of Money, argues that cash should vanish.

01/26/2012 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

The Perfect Party: February 2012

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

01/26/2012

Scene & Heard

Bloody Valentine

Time & place: “Unhappy Hour” at the Lovecraft Bar

01/26/2012 By Georgia Perry

last chance to see

Interior Margins at the Lumber Room

Exhibition closes Monday, Jan 30.

01/26/2012 By Aaron Scott

blow up already!

Live Music Review: The Brothers Young

Somebody get this epic 6-piece to a stadium, stat.

01/25/2012 By Anne Adams

food fight

Review: Famished

A "theatrical documentary" about what we crave and the troubles we get into stuffing our mouths feeds both the belly laughs and the indigestion. Through Feb 5.

01/23/2012 By Aaron Scott

red-alert state

Review: The North Plan

Portland Center Stage’s uproarious new comedy speculates on how a national crisis might redraw party lines.

01/23/2012 By Anne Adams

Web Exclusive

Video: The Lion Sings

Watch Afropop legend Thomas Mapfumo cover his hero—and occasional collaborator—Bob Marley in his Eugene studio.

01/20/2012 Edited by Stephen Person

LEGENDARY

The Lion's Song

Nearly a decade ago, Afropop legend Thomas Mapfumo fled Zimbabwe for Eugene, fearing retribution for his songs blasting government repression. Now the iconic singer is reemerging with an ambitious album recorded in the heart of the Willamette Valley.

01/20/2012 By Eric Hansen

Post

A Triple Double: Three Twin Concerts

This arts week brings—not two—but THREE sets of identical twins to the stage. The Watson Twins help hip us to their monozygotic arts scene.

01/19/2012 By Anne Adams

Out and About

Tile One On

Explore "A Glaze of Glory—the Artistry of Art Tile" at the Architectural Heritage Center’s new exhibit.

01/16/2012 By Kristin Belz