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Music Review: Let’s Make Love Come True by Monarques

06/22/2012 By John Chandler

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Riffing on the Bard

Director Scott Palmer reinvents Shakespeare and other theater classics from the avant-garde hotbed of … Hillsboro.

06/22/2012 By AP Kryza

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Book Review: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

By Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco [Nation Books]

05/24/2012 By Douglas Wolk

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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

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Lost in Space

Novelist Jon Raymond finds solace in journeys gone astray.

04/27/2012 By Shane Danaher

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The Listeners

A vivid novel explores childhood and death in new ways.

04/27/2012 By Pauls Toutonghi

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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

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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

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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

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Bump & Rhyme

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

03/23/2012 By Aaron Scott

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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

By Cheryl Strayed

02/23/2012 By Brian Barker

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Music Review: Totalwerks Vol 1 by One Model Nation

Dandy Warhols front man branches out on record and in print.

01/26/2012 By Derek Pettie

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Blue Thread

By Ruth Tenzer Feldman

01/26/2012 By Eliza Canty-Jones

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Dark Star

A museum showcase channels Mark Rothko’s strange radiance—and complex local roots.

01/26/2012 By Randy Gragg

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Crazy Enough

By Storm Large

12/23/2011 By Anne Adams

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Music Review: La Grande by Laura Gibson

12/23/2011 By Kate Moening

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Avant Bard

Portland Center Stage’s Chris Coleman reinvents a little-known Shakespeare work

12/23/2011 By Martin Patail

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Stage Cure

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

11/18/2011 By Aaron Scott

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High Note

A genre-bending Portland-area mariachi singer becomes a Spanish-language TV sensation.

10/14/2011 By Anne Adams

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Aftermath

By Scott Nadelson

09/21/2011 By Martin Patail