Allie Hankins curates a night of provocative humor in double bill: Ghosts and Snake Talk. Last Friday night at Performance Works Northwest, artists from Berlin, Ireland, and Oakland coalesced into a cohesive [Read On…]
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Ancient Timeless Gnawa Music
Innov Gnawa imports Arab mysticism to the post-post-modern world. Throughout the last decade, a market has grown for obscure “world music” collections, anthologies, and remasters, spawning indie labels with a niche in [Read On…]
Through Thick and Thin, But It’s Always Thin
Contigo Pan y Cebolla Looks A Lot Like America Today In 1955, Havana, Cuba, life was not characterized by the communist revolution yet. It was very Western, complete with capitalists, cars, radios, [Read On…]
Denial at the Party
I Should Have a Party for All the Thoughts I Didn’t Say comes from Source Material. When you’re out some place and you aren’t feeling up for the world’s cheery veneer, the [Read On…]
Can America Be Rich and Peaceful?
Flint, Michigan is a place to practice war because it is poor. The famous documentarian Michael Moore is utilizing his economically depressed hometown of Flint, Michigan to call attention to third world [Read On…]
Her Desperate Prayer
Source Material offers Nini Julia Bang upon migration to Portland The Headwaters Theatre is not a large venue, but when you remove the seats it is obviously smaller. For A Thousand Tongues, [Read On…]
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American Comedy Finds Itself at Holocene
Contributing Editor, Kathleen Dolan American Comedy is a free monthly showcase, currently running at Holocene, curated and hosted by Jason Traeger, Milan Patel, and Paul Schlesinger, featuring a mostly local line-up. It [Read On…]
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Love and Free Jazz
Snail Meets West is two lo-fi songwriters nodding to Ornette. On the album’s download page the credits read, “Recorded in loving memory of Ornette Coleman.” The legendary pioneer of “free jazz” died [Read On…]
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Talentless White Lady
New Download at Union Pole via Butte County Free Music Society. I’m in a band just like Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble, so watching Talentless White Lady (the Video pt 3] felt familiar. Some old [Read On…]
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Characters in the Flesh
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In Isolation, We Change Together
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What is Erotic?
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