Arts & Culture

MUSIC

Video: Mariachi Singer Edna Vazquez

A genre-bending Portland-area mariachi singer becomes a Spanish-language TV sensation.

10/27/2011 Videography by Markus Shearer and Stephen Person

from the heartland

The Real Americans

Dan Hoyle has a benevolent take on his conflicted countrymen.

10/26/2011 By Rebecca Waits

culture cheat-sheet

Gomyo Plays Beethoven

Oregon Symphony’s upcoming guest has a coveted instrument and laudable credentials.

10/26/2011 By Anne Adams

toxic turkey

Review: The Pain and the Itch

Third Rail Repertory’s Thanksgiving play challenges lip-service liberals to become better listeners.

10/24/2011 By Anne Adams

from the newsstand

Wordstock Short Fiction Winner

Read Monona Wali’s A Certain Kind of Woman.

10/21/2011 By Anne Adams

gallery grazing

Midmonth Gallery Alternatives

Though you may have walked "the walk" a couple weeks ago, there’s still plenty of treasure left to seek.

10/20/2011 By Anne Adams

rights of passage

Review: Gem of the Ocean

10/19/2011 By Anne Adams

suspending disbelief

Kinetic Sculpture + Modern Dance

This week, White Bird Uncaged presents Chunky Move’s Connected, a marvelously low-tech depiction of virtual space.

10/17/2011 By Anne Adams

press desk

Helping Oregon’s Cash-Poor Stay Culture-Rich

A recent announcement from Portland’s arts & culture director Cary Clarke.

10/15/2011 By The Culturegang

Out and About

Documentation of Home Life

Nikki McClure is a DIY maven, but her art is museum-worthy; see it at the Museum of Contemporary Craft.

10/14/2011 By Kristin Belz

Culturephile

High Note

A genre-bending Portland-area mariachi singer becomes a Spanish-language TV sensation.

10/14/2011 By Anne Adams

Mudroom

Do This Now November 2011

David Sedaris and John Hodgman are coming to town and Portland rock icons Sleater-Kinney will all be in the same place at the same time.

10/14/2011 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

DIY Five

A Portland artist’s new book lends kids a crafty hand for the season of indoor fun.

10/14/2011 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Vox Populi:We Take the Masses’ Pulse on Crucial Topics on Our Facebook Page

As we head for another season of rain and chill, what best describes your fall and winter recreation plans?

10/14/2011 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Five Questions For DJ Heatesca

The daughter of a country music star makes her mark in portland’s dance scene.

10/14/2011 By Ramona DeNies

Scene & Heard

Long Gone Blonde

The Place: The grave of Mayo Methot—once Portland’s most celebrated silver-screen bad girl and wife of Humphrey Bogart.

10/14/2011 By Brian Libby

Mudroom

The Perfect Party: November 2011

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

10/14/2011 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Jump Start

How ’70s skyjacker D.B. Cooper’s leap launched our greatest (and maybe last) modern outlaw myth.

10/14/2011 By Julian Smith

Web Exclusive

Video: State Of Undress

Russell Bruner "behind-the-scenes".

10/14/2011 Edited by Stephen Person