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Fond Farewell

05/19/2009 By Isaac Darnall

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Always Room for Cello

Local ensemble adds grace notes

05/19/2009 By John Chandler

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Fine China

Just when January’s relentless gray drizzle threatens to reduce us all to sorrowful puddles, a splash of color and whimsy arrives in the form of the Divine Performing Arts Company.

05/19/2009 By Anna Dukehart

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Ground Breaking

A year and a half in the making, the Fertile Ground festival gives theater buffs the chance to see twenty new plays.

05/19/2009 By Jenny Davis

Hotels

The Nines Becomes an Unlikely Showcase for Portland's Creative Class

Part hotel, part gallery, the Nines is downtown’s newest château.

05/19/2009 By Martha Calhoon

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Three Locals Leaping

White Bird Dance gives three locals some room to move.

05/19/2009 By Anna Dukehart

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Doomsdayer’s Holiday

05/19/2009 By Lucas Bradley-Kelly

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Hearts & Daggers

05/19/2009 By Lucas Bradley-Kelly

5 MINUTES WITH…

Sarah Vowell

In The Wordy Shipmates (Penguin Books), Vowell revisits the 17th-century Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Company, finding them to be a singular and idiosyncratic bunch.

05/19/2009 By John Chandler

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Self-Interest

Local performance-art troupe the Collective of Geniuses has fashioned its debut production by inviting fledgling playwrights to its website for some direct input.

05/19/2009 By Jenny Davis

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Women on the Verge

Portland welcomes the second annual Siren Nation Festival.

05/19/2009 By Jenny Davis