c'est bon!

"Portland Weird" in Paris: Artists Report

New Paris-based festival "Keep Portland Weird" hosted a bunch of Portland artists and reportedly spoiled them rotten. We asked our correspondents: Have we got a new sister city, or is our hometown’s hip oeuvre officially "over?

05/10/2012 By Aaron Scott and Anne Adams

your wednesday morning listening alert

Listen to Gossip’s New Album (and also the Dandy Warhols)

05/09/2012 By Aaron Scott

twitterdelic

Live-Tweet Review: Candide

Opens at the Keller on Friday.

05/08/2012 By Aaron Scott

political theater?

Profile Theatre’s Latest Inspiration

The theater company that devotes each season to a single dramatist’s voice sets its sights on South African playwright Athol Fugard

05/08/2012 By Anne Adams

about time, right?

Culturephile is on Twitter!

And to celebrate, we’re taking you behind the scenes at Portland Opera’s Candide dress rehearsal tonight for "Eat, tweet, drink and draw." (Say what?!)

05/07/2012 By Aaron Scott

a moving philosophy

Mizu Desierto’sDown-To-Earth Dance

Releasing the Local Culture Project documentary last Friday and prepping for the upcoming 1 Festival, Portland’s premier butoh curator continues to preach dance-life integration.

05/07/2012 By Anne Adams

gallery grazing

First Thursday Sampler

05/03/2012 By Aaron Scott

noted

Greylag Songwriter Explains Himself (sort of)

Andrew Stonestreet, frontman of a burgeoning band, preaches self-betterment but lets his music do most of the talking.

05/03/2012 By Anne Adams

it takes a village

Review: The Storm In The Barn

Oregon Children’s Theater’s dust-bowl fable is fertile ground for historical discussion and aesthetic appreciation.

05/02/2012 By Anne Adams

resisting the doctors orders

Review: Next to Normal

Artists Repertory’s production of the hit musical about overmedication felt like it’s on too much Prozac. Thru June 3

05/01/2012 By Aaron Scott

a democratic dictatorship

Vote for Portland’s Maker Overlord

05/01/2012 By Aaron Scott

creative cuts

An arts-focus school with just one arts teacher?

A school wide meeting tomorrow to save two of Buckman Elementary School’s three arts teachers from the pink slip.

04/30/2012 By Aaron Scott

Slideshow

Slide Show: The New Rose Parade

04/27/2012

Back Page

The New Rose Parade

In anticipation of our city’s century-old spring promenade, we take some newly commissioned floats out for a test drive.

04/27/2012

Culturephile

Lost in Space

Novelist Jon Raymond finds solace in journeys gone astray.

04/27/2012 By Shane Danaher

Schnitz Blitz

The Arlene Effect

After trying out some art classes because they fit her schedule, Arlene Schnitzer went on to exhibit, sell, and collect Portland art like no one before.

04/27/2012 By Randy Gragg

Mudroom

Do this Now!

What’s happening this month

04/27/2012 Edited by Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Five Questions with… Rebecca Gates

The leader of ’90s indie-rock darlings the Spinanes talks about her first new album in a decade.

04/27/2012 By Robert Ham

Mudroom

PDX Index: The Library

04/27/2012 By Will Lambeth

Mudroom

The Perfect Party: May 2012

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

04/27/2012 Edited by Zach Dundas