Mudroom

The Perfect Party: July 2012

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

06/22/2012

in defense of electronica

Before there was Dubstep

An electronica veteran finds redemption in this weekend’s Closer PDX festival

06/21/2012 By Martin Patail

the creative itch

Art Gets Sloppy at PICA’s Weekend Symposium

PICA brings award-winning choreographer and performer Keith Hennessy for a packed weekend of open rehearsals, discussions about the economy, screenings of lesbian erotica, and drinking and dishing. It’s happy hour fueled art!

06/20/2012 By Aaron Scott

carpe deim/caveat emptor

Risk/Reward This Weekend

The director reports (and the roster corroborates) ever-improving odds for Hand2Mouth’s high-stakes performance festival. by Jerry Tischleder, as told to Anne Adams

06/20/2012 By Anne Adams

revisiting monstrous beauties

Chuck Palahniuk Remixes His Monsters

To celebrate the twisted re-release of Invisible Monsters, Palahniuk will read at the Bing Lounge on June 21 (with vodka!)

06/19/2012

hot diggity dog

Dandy Warhols: Review & Slide Show

At the tail end of their US tour and the launch of new album This Machine, the psych-pop supergroup still sounds daisy-fresh and admits that there’s no place like home.

06/18/2012 Edited by Anne Adams

we're going to need a new potato, stat!

Beth Ditto + New MAC Makeup Line + Mom + Potatoes = Video Hilarity

06/15/2012 By Aaron Scott

blue pride

Portland Police Bureau: It Gets Better

06/15/2012 By Aaron Scott

Mudroom

Do This Now! July 2012

Hangin' with hippies and clapping for cowboys are both on the cultural calendar for July.

06/15/2012

Mudroom

Do You Want to Play a Game?

A Portland website reawakens a lost gaming genre—and its fans.

06/15/2012 By Will Lambeth

Mudroom

Woody Redux

Song ideas to swing a hammer to, inspired by the folk hero’s 100th

06/15/2012 By Zach Dundas

more than just a pretty face

Review: Third Rail Rep’s Penelope

Closes this weekend

06/13/2012 By Aaron Scott

a dysfunctional co-memoir

Interview: Meghan McCain on "America, You Sexy Bitch"

McCain’s new book with co-writer Michael Ian Black is out today. The two will speak at the Bagdad on July 20

06/12/2012 By Kit Mauldin

In Memorium

RIP Sean Roberts

Bassist and singer for 90s band Thirty-Ought Six passes away.

06/11/2012 By John Chandler

laughs til summer

June’s Can’t-Miss Comedy Shows

Jane Lynch, Patton Oswalt, Aziz Ansari, and Portland’s Funniest Person

06/07/2012 By Sara Gates

gallery grazing

First Thursday Sampler

06/07/2012 By Aaron Scott

gather your darlings

Review: Robin Jackson’s Solo Debut ‘Dust Diaries’

Record release concert this Friday, June 8 at Secret Society Ballroom with members of the Portland Cello Project, MarchFourth Marching Band, and Vagabond Opera. Y La Bamba frontlady Luz Elena Mendoza opens

06/06/2012 By Kit Mauldin

madcap maestro

Live Show Review: Reggie Watts Spouts Off

At the Crystal Ballroom last weekend, and about to begin appearing regularly on a TV show, eccentric Seattle comedian/musician Reggie Watts was in rare (but common for him) form.

06/06/2012 By Sara Gates

Article

Japanther’s Punk-Rock Puppet Show

06/06/2012 By Anne Adams

Desirables

Dear Ida, Will You Paint My House?

Honor your humble home with its own custom-drawn portrait.

06/04/2012 By Kristin Belz