“A Self In The Image of Art. Not God. Not Father.”
When Lidia Yuknavitch took the podium at Powell’s Books a few weeks ago, I think all of us in the room were blushing – including her. She was nervous. “I’m bad at [Read On…]
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Jeff Simmons, community radio guru, and myself, chat in freeform and celebrate the end of marijuana prohibition in Oregon. Candid talk and open curiosity elevate us into orbits around bits of the [Read On…]
The Planetary Dance, an Offering for Everyone
All photography by Sean Ongley The fifteen-mile drive to St. John’s from my home fostered many daydreams as a ride into the city will. I felt a spectrum of scattered thought-clouds from the last [Read On…]
The silence of Basset stirs many rumors. He was a star in Syria as the national soccer team’s goalkeeper, and were he to have fled Syria like four million others since 2011, [Read On…]
Catherine Russell is a Summer Breeze
When Catherine Russell joined the instrumental trio on stage Thursday night at Jimmy Mak’s, she tied together a lustrous scene. In front of plush red curtains, a thick velvety backdrop that looked [Read On…]
Obsession with The Master
How I discovered film and its American guru. My first exposure to the films of Paul Thomas Anderson occurred when I was in 7th grade, although I did not actually see one. It [Read On…]
Pure Surface Turns One
Pure Surface new performance series celebrates its first anniversary. Over the past year, Pure Surface has explored the collaboration of different forms, with the bodies and minds of multi-disciplinary artists coming together in [Read On…]
Dani Tirrel’s The Beautiful pictured above. Tonight marks the final presentation of Portland’s Risk/Reward Festival of New Performance. Running for two weekends at the Artist Repertory Theatre, the festival features works that encompass [Read On…]
The Sleepy Soldier
Ai Wei-Wei is seeding the flowers of revolution in the grounds of justice. He leans back in the chair on the patio under the soft sunlight while his friend fusses around on [Read On…]