Hannah and Unison
Two fine world premieres at Oregon Shakespeare Festival
You have two great new reasons to visit the Oregon Shakespeare Festival right now — Hannah and the Dread Gazebo, a charming, balanced inquiry into … Continue reading
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Updating Traditions
A new Oregon opera at the Music Today Festival
Portland Opera may have canceled this month’s production, but you can see a brand-new, made-in-Oregon opera for free next weekend at the University of Oregon’s … Continue reading
Blue Transmissions
Ethereal pop band halie and the moon celebrates its CD release
Bluntly put, halie and the moon is a band comprising five crackerjack musicians whose creativity, chops and sophistication would be breathtaking to encounter in any … Continue reading
#NOPE
Tech thriller The Circle founders on false dichotomies and a lack of direction
Within the first few minutes of The Circle, a tiresome cinematic exercise in false dichotomies, Mae (Emma Watson) tells a friend that she’ll send him … Continue reading
A Boy and His Thumbs
The quality of a story’s substance isn’t necessarily the meat or the grit — sometimes it’s how a person chooses to tell it. Danny Yarborough … Continue reading
A Cabin in the Woods
“I sang before I talked,” laughs Kate Sawicki, lead singer of the richly eclectic band The Cabin Project. Sawicki and her solemn band mates string … Continue reading
N.A.P.O.I. full session
Not A Part Of It performing live for #lincolnstreetsessions in it's entirety
Check out the full Lincoln Street Session session from Not A Part Of It Recorded: 10-13-2016 Audio Recording & Mixing: James Bateman Cameras: Trask Bedortha, … Continue reading
A Gray Day is Beautiful, Too
White Lotus offers new paintings by Margaret Prentice
Some people look forward to retirement. They plan for the time when they can stop working and do nothing but take it easy and relax. … Continue reading
Monsters Far Away and Close to Home
Though missing the mark, Colossal remains an intriguing failure of a film
A carousing alcoholic with a tendency toward blackout, Gloria (the excellent Anne Hathaway) saunters home at sunrise one morning to find that her boyfriend, Tim … Continue reading
Oregon Roots
Portland sister trio Joseph have Oregon Roots
Portland roots-harmony sister trio Joseph take their name from the northeastern Oregon town of Joseph. Band member Allison Closner says she and her sisters spent … Continue reading