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Cuban Dance Marks the White Bird Season Finale with Cultural Integration

Malpaso Dance Company offers the dove to Portland. Cuba, for me, has always been a far away neighbor, some mysterious paradise, and a land of armed revolutionaries. Americans are pretty much informed [Read On…]

How to Serve Those Who Are Serving

Prison Obscura exhibit at Newspace sees the need for humanity to revise Justice. Around 8 p.m. on the Sunday before last, I pulled my bike to the side of Interstate Avenue and [Read On…]

Found in Time

Linda Austin is “a head of time” in new, ongoing work. Don’t think too much. About the past, or what the bundles of colorful extension cords on the floor mean, or how [Read On…]

Going Big on the Central Eastside

A Design Week PDX Panel takes on a big question: How does the city keep the Central Eastside industrially fertile? Hanging at the front of the room where Bora Architects hosted the [Read On…]

Tsilli Pines Explains Design Week Portland

Design Week Co-Founder and Director, Tsilli Pines Explains the Scattered Development of a Burgeoning Festival. The story of Design Week Portland is not one of consistency. It has changed months, almost skipped [Read On…]

What Is Design Week?

Everything is design, design is everything, and Portland is a microcosm. Design Week Portland is neither a week nor is it design. Actually, it is more than that. The provocative event spans [Read On…]

In Isolation, We Change Together

The Few opens up a compelling love story in a forgotten setting. It was such a passing fancy around the year 2000 that we have already forgotten about it. I’m talking about the [Read On…]

Characters in the Flesh

Jewish Theatre Collaborative lifts “Davita’s Harp” from the page to the stage at Milagro Theatre. “This is a strange story. It doesn’t have an ending. Are you listening?” Walking into the intimate [Read On…]

Inside the Red Doors

The 5th Annual Oak Street Art Show offers celebration and a much-needed dose of inspiration for one young man. It was sometime in the winter of 2013 that I found myself caught in a [Read On…]