Arts & Culture

film

A Few Good Reasons To Watch "Foreign" Films

Need a reason to catch the Portland International Film Festival? Here are several.

01/31/2011 By Anne Adams

Article

An evening with Portland Arts & Lectures

Novelist Pauls Toutonghi recounts last week’s Portland Arts & Lectures, which featured Elizabeth Strout and announced Oregon Book Award finalists.

01/28/2011 By The Culturegang

Theater Review

The Missing Pieces

Portland Playhouse’s Fertile Ground offering runs only through this weekend.

01/27/2011 By Alexis Rehrmann

Article

Review: Short Plays By Nameless Playwrights

Georgia Perry reports: John A. Donnelly’s senior romance Aged Meet makes the grade.

01/27/2011 By Georgia Perry

Article

Review: Smarter Than Phones

Georgia Perry reports: This promising Fertile Ground production kinda "phoned it in."

01/26/2011 By Georgia Perry

Article

Two Shenandoahs

Sellwood’s top acts tonight and tomorrow share little more than a lyrical Irish name.

01/25/2011 By Anne Adams

phile under: theater

Fertile Ground Speaks for Itself

Playwrights plug the upcoming festival with a few choice quotes, straight from their scripts.

01/24/2011 By Anne Adams

Article

Win Tedd Nash Pomaski Art!

Golden Rule raffles a piece by the prominent Brooklyn-based graphite artist.

01/23/2011 By Anne Adams

tune in: television

Portlandia Premieres in NYC

We’ve hit the big time!

01/22/2011 By Randy Gragg

Article

Five Questions With Vin Shambry

Superior Donuts’ frontman talks shop about acting fresh, conjuring courage, and breaking his own heart backstage.

01/21/2011 By Anne Adams

Slideshow

Slide Show: Trophy Case

01/19/2011

LONG STORY [SHORT]

The Destroyer

An interview with best-selling science fiction author S.M. Stirling, who has envisioned a post-apocalyptic Oregon in his Emberverse series.

01/19/2011 By Martin Patail

phile under: theater

The Imaginary Invalid at PCS

A bodily and bawdy new adaptation of Moliére’s comedy of medical manners, takes to the PCS mainstage.

01/19/2011 By Alexis Rehrmann

tune in: television

Portlandia Premiere

Creator Carrie Brownstein and Director Jonathan Krisel weigh in on their new IFC series’ growing hype.

01/15/2011 By Anne Adams

HOMEGIRL

Manila Mata Hari

In the occupied Pacific, a now- forgotten Portland nightclub singer turned herself into one of World War II’s most Celebrated spies

01/14/2011 By Brian Libby

February

Off hours

How to spend your free time this month

01/14/2011

GLOSSARY

Word On The Street: January 2011

Portlandic adj.

01/14/2011

Mud Room

30 Seconds With… Dave Frishberg

The veteran local jazz songwriter sings his stuff during this month’s Portland Jazz Festival

01/14/2011 By Anne Adams