Arts & Culture

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Preview: Box Shipment #2

Artist examining trauma travels more than 2,000 miles locked in a crate that couldn’t hold your refrigerator.

07/07/2011 By Daniel Mollet

blues news

Slideshow: Waterfront Blues Festival

125 performances, 4 days, and $726,000 raised, "because no one should be hungry."

07/06/2011 By Griffin Funk

broadway

Review: Mary Poppins

5 magic moments, 5 child-pleasers…and a caution to Poppins purists.

07/03/2011 By Anne Adams

news flash

Casting for a Wild Flag Video & Portlandia

Carrie Brownstein (possibly) wants you.

07/01/2011 By Anne Adams

Culturephile

Farm to Stage

In a St. Johns backyard, a homegrown version of Japanese dance takes root.

06/29/2011 By Anne Adams

Long story [short]

The Champion

Tucker McClaran, 14

06/29/2011 By Rachel Ritchie

Mudroom

Do This Now! July 2011

This month it's all about blues, bikes, Bastille Day, and—Katy Perry?

06/29/2011

Mudroom

Fantasy Mayor 2012

Perhaps the perfect Portland mayor can be found among the pages of history.

06/29/2011 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Scene & Heard: Ghost Hunters

Scaring up ghosts is not as easy as it looks.

06/29/2011 By Sarah Mirk

Mudroom

The Perfect Party: July 2011

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

06/29/2011

Mudroom

Press Play

While some mourn the “death of print,” e-publishing gives innovative Portland writers, publishers, and even booksellers new hope.

06/29/2011 By Martin Patail

concert tip

Shook Twins

06/28/2011 By Anne Adams

Read This

Poetry in Place

Forget the workaday functionality of ordinary maps; in this book, author Denis Wood redraws and redefines his neighborhood based on everything from radio waves to sidewalk graffiti.

06/27/2011 By Amara Holstein

the hive mind

PAM Awards John Grade

A Seattle sculptor wins the Schnitzer prize for pieces that weather in the elements.

06/21/2011 By Anne Adams

tune in

Viva Voce’s New Album

Perk up your ears for a few sounds from The Future Will Destroy You, the latest from Portland psych-pop maestros Viva Voce.

06/21/2011 By Anne Adams

black & white thinking

How The Fire Fell: A Literal "Cult Film"

Edward Pack Davee’s locally-made movie revives a religious offshoot’s tawdry tale.

06/20/2011 By Anne Adams