Now Read This

Crazy Enough

By Storm Large

12/23/2011 By Anne Adams

Now Hear This

Music Review: La Grande by Laura Gibson

12/23/2011 By Kate Moening

Mudroom

The Perfect Party: January 2012

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

12/23/2011

Culturephile

Avant Bard

Portland Center Stage’s Chris Coleman reinvents a little-known Shakespeare work

12/23/2011 By Martin Patail

YOUNG AT ART

6 Magical Children’s Plays

12/22/2011

deep freeze

Review: Angels in America

Portland Playhouse’s long winter epic proves bone-chillingly, exquisitely beautiful.

12/21/2011 By Anne Adams

shalom

Happy Hanukkah from The Klezmatics

Usher in the Festival of Lights tonight at The Aladdin with these Grammy-winning New Yorkers.

12/20/2011 By Anne Adams

DIY

Prints Charming is in the House

Yellow Owl Workshop helps stamp out boredom over the long school holidays.

12/19/2011 By Kristin Belz

Appreciation

Tales of Two Charleses

Charles Dickens and Charles Schulz invented two of the season’s most welcome visitors to our holiday celebrations at home.

12/18/2011 By Kristin Belz

tune in

Portlandia: It's Ba-ack!

Our beloved IFC sitcom mock-u-ments the city’s glut of day-jobbing DJs and their relative scarcity of fans, then exposes our special breed of TV-watching homebodies.

12/16/2011 By Anne Adams

Post

Slide Show: Portlandia Abroad

12/16/2011

Slideshow

Portlandia Abroad

Ambassadors Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein bring Rose City fashion and culture to the world.

12/16/2011

Web Exclusive

Portlandia Abroad: Behind-the-Scenes

Photo shoot fun with Fred and Carrie.

12/16/2011

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Slideshow: OBT’s Nutcracker 2011

12/15/2011

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Slideshow: OBT’s Nutcracker 2011

12/15/2011 By Anne Adams

sweets in stockings

OBT’s Holiday Revue: Assorted Delights

12/13/2011 By Anne Adams

culture cheat-sheet

15 Giftable Portland Albums

12/12/2011 By Anne Adams

shaking things up

"All Night Dance" Starts a Movement

Dancer Robert Tyree, the Regional Arts and Culture Council and others rally around a rarely-recognized cause.

12/08/2011 By Anne Adams

elf actualized

Review: The Santaland Diaries

12/06/2011 By Anne Adams

deck the walls

3 Easy Places to Buy Paintings

Variety, simplicity, and charity collaboration make for great holiday art-shopping ops.

12/05/2011 By Anne Adams