not so hidden cameras

Review: Mishka Henner’s “No Man’s Land”

Aggregator-photographer Henner trolls Google Street View for women who ‘might’ be sex workers. Controversy ensues. At Blue Sky Gallery thru June 3

05/24/2012 By Aaron Scott

Culturephile

Retracing K2's Deadliest Day

Journalist Peter Zuckerman has braved death threats, bigots, war-torn Himalayan villages, and psychedelic worm-mushroom hybrids to tell the stories of those brushed aside by history.

05/23/2012 By Aaron Scott

portland music compilation of record

PDX Pop Now! Announces Its 2012 Compilation Album Lineup and Release Show

June 7 at Holocene with Sun Angle, Wild Ones, Hollywood Tans, Rose, DJ Porsche Cayenne

05/21/2012 By Aaron Scott

Feature

A Portland Artist's Portraits Layer the Ambiguities of Photography and Gender

Lorenzo Triburgo merges transgender men and corny, Bob Ross–style landscapes in portraits that playfully puncture assumptions about men, women, landscape, and photography.

05/18/2012 By Aaron Scott

Scene & Heard

Spider Woman

A Cirque du Soleil contortionist talks about Portland and life on the road.

05/18/2012 By Aaron Scott

Article

Review: Imago Theatre’s ‘The Black Lizard’

The English premiere of the classic Japanese jewel heist satire seduces but occasionally stumbles over its own obi in this noir-thriller-erotic-kabuki mash-up. Thru June 2

05/17/2012 By Aaron Scott

pagans and los angelenos

The Oregon Symphony Gets Dark and Seedy for Its Closing Concerts

The Symphony takes on Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and John Adam’s City Noir for its Sunday and Monday performances

05/16/2012 By Aaron Scott

grab your pompoms, girls!

Bring It On: The Musical Goes to Broadway Courtesy of Oregon-born Theater Wunderkind

05/15/2012 By Aaron Scott

no reason to be down

Tomorrow Only: $30 Tickets to ‘It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues’

05/15/2012 By Aaron Scott

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

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

gallery grazing

First Thursday Sampler

05/03/2012 By Aaron Scott

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

Now Hear This

Music Review: A Monument by Tu Fawning

Tu Fawning returns with a darkly seductive wintry pop album that our reviewer calls a "a decadent carnival ride."

04/27/2012 By Aaron Scott

Cover Story

Best of the City 2012

04/26/2012 With Kasey Cordell, John Chandler, Zach Dundas, Rachel Ritchie, Anne Adams, Aaron Scott, Benjamin Tepler, Will Lambeth, and Cari Hachman Edited by Brian Barker

shorter than a tweet, harder than a haiku

Orange Lining

TriMet wants your poetry to line the new Max line. Only catch: it can’t be longer than 50 characters. By Camille Grigsby-Rocca

04/25/2012 By Aaron Scott

making science sexy

Win Tickets to Radiolab + Interview with Jad and Robert

Radiolab performs two live shows Friday and Saturday at the Keller with Pilobolus Dance Company, comedian Demetri Martin, and musician Thao Nguyen. Co-hosts Robert Krulwich and Jad Abumrad tell us what it’s all about.

04/24/2012 By Aaron Scott