deep freeze

Review: Angels in America

Portland Playhouse’s long winter epic proves bone-chillingly, exquisitely beautiful.

12/21/2011 By Anne Adams

shalom

Happy Hanukkah from The Klezmatics

Usher in the Festival of Lights tonight at The Aladdin with these Grammy-winning New Yorkers.

12/20/2011 By Anne Adams

DIY

Prints Charming is in the House

Yellow Owl Workshop helps stamp out boredom over the long school holidays.

12/19/2011 By Kristin Belz

Appreciation

Tales of Two Charleses

Charles Dickens and Charles Schulz invented two of the season’s most welcome visitors to our holiday celebrations at home.

12/18/2011 By Kristin Belz

tune in

Portlandia: It's Ba-ack!

Our beloved IFC sitcom mock-u-ments the city’s glut of day-jobbing DJs and their relative scarcity of fans, then exposes our special breed of TV-watching homebodies.

12/16/2011 By Anne Adams

Slideshow

Slide Show: Portlandia Abroad

12/16/2011

Slideshow

Portlandia Abroad

Ambassadors Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein bring Rose City fashion and culture to the world.

12/16/2011

Web Exclusive

Portlandia Abroad: Behind-the-Scenes

Photo shoot fun with Fred and Carrie.

12/16/2011

Slideshow

Slideshow: OBT’s Nutcracker 2011

12/15/2011

Article

Slideshow: OBT’s Nutcracker 2011

12/15/2011 By Anne Adams

sweets in stockings

OBT’s Holiday Revue: Assorted Delights

12/13/2011 By Anne Adams

culture cheat-sheet

15 Giftable Portland Albums

12/12/2011 By Anne Adams

shaking things up

"All Night Dance" Starts a Movement

Dancer Robert Tyree, the Regional Arts and Culture Council and others rally around a rarely-recognized cause.

12/08/2011 By Anne Adams

elf actualized

Review: The Santaland Diaries

12/06/2011 By Anne Adams

deck the walls

3 Easy Places to Buy Paintings

Variety, simplicity, and charity collaboration make for great holiday art-shopping ops.

12/05/2011 By Anne Adams

Slideshow

Slide Show: 3 Easy Places to Buy Paintings

12/05/2011

eye want candy

New Video: Ashia & The Bison Rouge

12/05/2011 By Anne Adams

Out and About

Eames: the Architect and the Painter

Charles and Ray Eames – and their innovative designs – star in this vivid new documentary.

12/03/2011 By Kristin Belz

from the newsstand

Stage Cure: Holcombe Waller

Modern troubadour Holcombe Waller finds catharsis in a new multimedia production. Read more.

12/01/2011

gallery grazing

First Thursday Sampler

11/30/2011 By Anne Adams