Arts & Culture

TIME-BASED ART FESTIVAL 2013

TBA Slide Show: Critical Mascara: A Post-Realness Drag Ball

Day 3: Portland turned it out for a runway battle of fierceness and glamour. Here were there looks.

09/19/2013

THEATER

Review: Artists Rep's "The Big Meal"

Dámaso Rodriguez's first show as ART's artistic director, a saga of five generations in one archetypal American family, bites off more than it can chew.

09/19/2013 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

WEEKEND PICKS

Top Things To Do This Weekend: Sept 19-22

The National hits Edgefield, TBA barrels through the weekend, and Todd Barry banters with the audience in another September weekend of sizzling events.

09/19/2013 By Portland Monthly Staff Edited by Nathan Tucker

Time-Based Art Festival 2013

TBA Review: Third Angle New Music

Day 6: As the music rises, spins, and scatters in pitch darkness, it's easy to imagine what it's like to fly with the swifts. Thru Sept 19

09/18/2013 By Randy Gragg

Time-Based Art Festival 2013

TBA: Getting To Know You(Tube) at the Works

Day 5: A team of “experts” led us deep into the culture of YouTube—a journey both hilarious and profound (but mostly hilarious).

09/17/2013 By Ally Bordas

TICKET GIVEAWAY

Win Tickets to Steve Earle and the Dukes

The country-folk legend with the hard-living past plays the Aladdin on Oct 2. We've got two tickets to give away.

09/17/2013 By Nathan Tucker

MUSIC

Wrapping Up MusicfestNW

Our team of showgoers recaps the six-day, 150-plus-act, 16-venue sonic extravaganza. Plus, the best fest photos.

09/17/2013 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg, Marco España, and Nathan Tucker

COMEDY

Q&A: Comedian Todd Barry Like You’ve Never Seen Him

On his “Crowd Work” tour, the noted comedian makes an entire show out of audience interaction. Sept 20

09/17/2013 By Jamison Taffel

Time-Based Art Festival 2013

TBA: Like a Villain at the Works

Day 4: Like a Villain’s Holland Andrews redefined what it means to be in complete command of one’s voice.

09/16/2013 By Nathan Tucker

Time-Based Art Festival 2013

TBA: Nick Hallett at the Works

Day 4: The New York composer brought a scientific text to saturated sonic life in 'Rainbow Passage.'

09/16/2013 By Caitlin Feldman

Time-Based Art Festival 2013

TBA: Linda Austin/David Eckard

Day 4: Two local TBA veterans team up for the first time in a risky effort at fusing dance and sculpture. Thru Sept. 18

09/16/2013 By Randy Gragg

Time-Based Art Festival 2013

TBA: bobbevy

Day 2: The Portland company contemplates time and relationships through contemporary dance and custom electronics. Thru Sept. 16

09/15/2013 By Tuck Woodstock

Time-Based Art Festival 2013

TBA: Trajal Harrell's 'Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem'

Day 2: Not an easy journey, but ultimately worth watching them learn to werk it. Thru Sept 15

09/14/2013 By Aaron Scott

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