MUSIC VIDEO

Y La Bamba’s New Video: Beautiful and Nostalgic Summer Fare

“Ponce Pilato” is a 16mm partnership between the band and a synchronized swim troupe that pays homage to the “Million Dollar Mermaid.”

06/10/2013 By Aaron Scott

ARTS NEWS

OBT Announces Its New Artistic Director

Oregon Ballet Theatre selects international dancer and artistic director Kevin Irving to lead its company.

06/07/2013 By Aaron Scott

OUT AND ABOUT

Our Guide to Guides to Portland

From a class of Llewelyn Elementary Third Graders, to zinesters, to Portlandia's, there's a guidebook for what to do in Portland.

06/06/2013 By Kristin Belz

DELICIOUSLY INTERDISCIPLINARY

PICA Symposium: 'How Do You Mean? Culture in Translation'

The interdisciplinary weekend includes performance, dinner, and dialogue connecting the artistic process to the daily interpretation of ourselves. June 6–9

06/06/2013 By Sam Coggeshall

CONCERTS

The Lumineers Tickets on Sale Now

The toe-tapping radio stars play the Memorial Coliseum on September 22. Also on sale: Death Cab for Cutie, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the National, and more.

06/06/2013 By Claire Gordon

EVENTS

Top Things to Do This Weekend: June 6–9

Tributes to Dolly Parton and George Gershwin, an improvised 'Star Trek' marathon, and the Naked Bike Ride are on this weekend's to-do list.

06/05/2013 By John Chandler

EVENTS

PDX Pop Now! Compilation Release Party

Don't miss this sampling of Portland's best up-and-coming artists, including local favorites Radiation City, Y La Bamba, Wampire, and more! Several perform on June 14 at Backspace.

06/05/2013 By Claire Gordon

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Piano Virtuoso and Style Icon Lola Astanova Heats Up Portland

Check out a slide show of the young Russian-American’s propensity for flair. She plays the Gerding Theater June 10.

06/04/2013 By Claire Gordon

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Slide Show: Virtuoso Style Icon Lola Astanova

06/04/2013

EVENTS

Do This Now: June

Our picks for your calendar this month, from Portland's LGTBQ Pride Festival to PDX Beer Week

06/04/2013 By Alisha Gorder

TICKET GIVEAWAY

Win Tickets to Method Man and Redman

Hip-hop's dynamic duo roll into the Crystal Ballroom this Sunday! Enter to win a pair of tickets.

06/04/2013 By John Chandler

FIVE QUESTIONS

What's Wrong With Plastic Surgery?

A Q & A with Eugene's anti-aging author Lauren Kessler

06/03/2013 By Rachel Rasmussen

THEATER

Review: Artists Rep’s ‘Ithaka’

The world premiere tells the mythic story of a recent veteran’s Odyssean voyage home. Thru June 30

06/03/2013 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

FEATURE

5 Perfect Portland Days

Itineraries for every kind of summer visitor

06/03/2013 By Kasey Cordell

BACKPAGE

A Cure for Discontents, Overschedulers, and Social Butterflies?

FOMOxicil: the first FDA-approved drug to treat the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)

06/03/2013

BOOKS

Review: 'Happy Talk' by Richard Melo

A rollicking, and occasionally surreal, tale of nurses, surfers, and a film crew in Haiti

06/03/2013 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Q&A: Portugal. The Man's John Gourley

The Portland band courts major-label success with a swirling, psychedelic, Danger Mouse–produced new album.

06/03/2013 By Robert Ham

CULTUREPHILE

Dancer Linda Austin Reaches for 30

Portland’s doyenne of experimental dance returns to the work that sparked her career.

06/03/2013 By Heather Wisner

SUMMER GUIDE

The Portland Timbers' Other Rivals

With the Cascadia Cup on the line, our hometown team looks beyond the Seattle Sounders to tackle their friendlier, Canadian rivals.

06/02/2013 By Marty Patail

SUMMER GUIDE

Trek in the Park's Final Frontier

The summer theater favorite ends its five-year mission with “The Trouble with Tribbles”—and your help.

06/02/2013 By Aaron Scott