Dr. Record & Mr. Live

Preview: Weinland Plays Record-Release Shows This Weekend

With their new album, the Portland folk-rock mainstays successfully capture their livelier live sound. Hear it at Mississippi Studios Friday and Saturday.

10/24/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

Article

The Portland Mercury Aspires to Be Portland Monthly

The darling little paper for snarky teens hopes one day to grow up to be the refined trendsetter that is Portland Monthly.

10/24/2012 By Nigel Figgens Hawthorne

go east, young man

The New York Times Discovers "East" Portland!

The newspaper of record puts East Portland on the map. Again.

10/22/2012 By Aaron Scott

cranes and champagne

PNCA Dedicates New Building Site with Lee Kelly's Memory 99

The Pacific Northwest College of Art chose a mammoth steel sculpture by the seminal NW artist (and alumnus) to anchor its new campus.

10/19/2012 By Aaron Scott

Article

Symphony Cancels Return to Carnegie Hall

Amid other changes to keep the organization solvent (and please the Tea Party paradigm).

10/18/2012 By Aaron Scott

forget champagne

Ticket-Sale Alert: Pink Martini on New Year's Eve

The Portland favorites ring in 2013 at the Schnitz. Tickets go on sale tomorrow.

10/18/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

the british are coming!

Win Tickets to Snow Patrol + Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

The chart topping Brit/Scot/Irish bands perform on Tuesday at the Schnitzer.

10/17/2012 By Aaron Scott

Interview

Portland Opera's Globe-trotting Guest Diva

An interview with Stefania Dovhan

10/16/2012 By Zach Dundas

Television

Grimm Obits

A look at how Portland thespians meet their ends on the NBC hit series.

10/16/2012 By Anne Adams

Television

Animal Planet Pursues Bigfoot All Over the World

A Portland cable star's quest for Sasquatch-like beasts

10/16/2012 By Danielle Strom

Book Review

Eight Girls Taking Pictures by Whitney Otto

10/16/2012 By Corey Fawcett

Music Review

Heat Waves by Brainstorm

10/16/2012 By John Murray

Culturephile

Portland Film Family Tree

Mapping the connections that make Portland one of the country’s greatest indie film towns

10/16/2012 By Anne Richardson

Article

Review: Portland Center Stage's Body of an American

With a masterly script and commanding performances, Portland Center Stage's new, world-premiere production brilliantly casts a light into humanity's shadowy psychic spaces.

10/15/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

moving in the right direction

Review: Gossip Changes Lives with its Live Show

The local band-made-big returned home for an infectious show that ended in profound transformation. Banging new local standout Magic Mouth opened.

10/11/2012 By Aaron Scott

get jiggy with lit

PoMo's Wordstock Guide

We offer up a dozen do-not-miss panels, events, and readings for the annual lit dream fest, Wordstock, this weekend at the Convention Center.

10/11/2012 By Aaron Scott

it's "soof-yawn"

Ticket-Sale Alert: Sufjan Stevens

The gifted and eccentric musician is coming to the Aladdin with a X-mas show that sounds nutty even for him. Tix go on sale tomorrow.

10/11/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

blues killer

Interview: Corin Tucker

We talk with Corin Tucker about performing the mom–musician balancing act, the changing face of feminist music, and her band's new album. Corin Tucker Band plays Bunk Bar Saturday.

10/10/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

forest for the trees

OBT's the Body Beautiful Preview + Slide Show

The Oregon Ballet Theatre creates a night of dance around myth and the human form, involving mammoth original sculptures. Opens this weekend.

10/09/2012 By Aaron Scott

Slideshow

Slideshow: Oregon Ballet Theatre's the Body Beautiful

10/09/2012