Arts & Culture

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Video: Poetry Smackdown

In preparation for Portland’s first citywide poetry slam on April 25, watch several Madison High School contenders perform their poems

03/23/2012 Edited by Stephen Person

Now Hear This

Music Review: A Wasteland Companion by M. Ward

Part-time Portlander M. Ward makes his way through the wilderness in "A Wasteland Companion".

03/23/2012 By John Chandler

Now Read This

Glamour in Glass

Magic meets Jane Austen in a new novel by award-winning fantasy author Mary Robinette Kowal—reviewed by award-winning fantasy author Jay Lake!

03/23/2012 By Jay Lake

Culturephile

Bump & Rhyme

A high school librarian launches DIY literature into a citywide competition.

03/23/2012 By Aaron Scott

Mudroom

Do This Now! April 2012

Develop a taste for bikes, beaters, coffee, and culture during the month of April.

03/23/2012 Edited by Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Five Questions with… Radiolab

Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich bring their hit public radio program Radiolab to the stage.

03/23/2012 By Aaron Scott

PORTLAND GLOSSARY

Word on the Street: Jerrymandering

Do the French love Portland more than we do?

03/23/2012 Edited by Zach Dundas

Mudroom

The Cleary Century

Happy 96th to Portland’s epoch-spanning kids' author

03/23/2012 By Will Lambeth

Mudroom

The Perfect Party: April 2012

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

03/23/2012 Edited by Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Ink City

How Portland became the comic book industry’s city of superheroes!

03/23/2012 By Marty Patail

ticket giveaway

Win Tickets to Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown

The folk opera premieres in Portland next Wednesday with a local star-studded cast.

03/22/2012 By Aaron Scott

black & white thinking

Review: Race

David Mamet lets his characters blurt out all their racial prejudices, but doesn’t necessarily pave a path to reconciliation.

03/22/2012 By Anne Adams

best of the west

Slide Show: Portland Bands at SXSW

03/21/2012 By Anne Adams

Article

Raincoats Live

Nearly thirty-five years of history comes together at the Star Theater.

03/20/2012 By Mac Pogue

playlist

Review: The Shins Port of Morrow

James Mercer releases fourth album with entirely new band called…The Shins?

03/20/2012 By Stephen Person

sour apple

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Mike Daisey

Daisey’s investigative performance about Apple turns out to be more performance, less investigation.

03/19/2012 By Aaron Scott

radio stars

NPR Loves Portland: Interviews Both The Shins and Esperanza Spalding

Both acts have new albums on Tuesday

03/18/2012 By Aaron Scott