Portlanders, both young and old, flocked to the Learning Gardens Laboratory for the 2015 Earth Day Spring Festival on April 25. The event included live music, free food and activities…
The Great Catsby Furball goes gala for feral cats
The Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon is committed to promoting spaying and neutering all stray cats in the Pacific Northwest. This year, the FCCO will throw their 20th anniversary Furball…
Campus ‘Pokémon’ tourney missing no more
The sixth generation of the Pokémon video game series began on October 12, 2013, with the release of Pokémon Sapphire and Diamond. The Pokémon legacy began in 1998 with the…
PSU alum brings ‘Belly Dance Off’ back to Portland
A main stage illuminated by lights. Three judges and an audience ready to participate. Sound familiar? This is not the layout for an audience award show like America’s Got Talent,…
‘RunLoveKill’ comic is a totalitarian thriller
Without a doubt, RunLoveKill would be perfect as a movie. Jon Tsuei and Eric Canete really managed to make a comic that evokes what’s best about both mediums. The pacing and…
Get a jeg up on this warm weather
Maybe you wear jeggings. Maybe you don’t. Maybe you should. I’d like to take a moment to talk about the wonders of the faux pants that are jeggings—you know, those stretch-infused…
Find that wig you’re hunting for at Newcon PDX swap meet
Who wants to freecycle his or her extra prized figurine out to the curbside for someone who just does not appreciate it as much as you? Instead, bring your posable…
Kim Jong-il’s ‘On the Art of the Cinema’ is fearlessly stupid
Every once in a while you happen upon a book that changes your life. A work of art so beautiful, so well-written and heartbreaking and magical that when you finish…
Review: Lincoln Hall features ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’
The School of Music’s rendition of Le Nozze di Figaro has opened at Lincoln Hall, and with elegant period costumes, an expansive cast and a full orchestra, it is a…
Victorian travelogue is weird, liquid history
It’s the end of the 19th century, that stereotypically prudish era marked by Queen Victoria’s reign. The sun hasn’t yet set on the empire, but social discontent bubbles, about to…
Student and local bands to collab for music video fest
Student filmmakers and local bands are creating music videos to showcase at the first-ever Portland State Music Video Festival on May 16 at 6:30 p.m. in Parkway North. A partnership…