Bob Moore has spent a long time figuring out who he is. “You don’t always know who you are,” Moore said, “until you’ve been who you are for a…
Bringing condors back from the brink of extinction, one egg at a time
Springtime for California Condors means egg season. For a mating pair of the enormous, vulture-like birds, this means picking out a nest site, laying a single, enormous egg and taking…
Not just for collectors: the surprising afterlife of typewriters in the 21st century
What kind of a person do you picture using a typewriter in the digital age? If you imagined hipster poets, novelists with day jobs or anyone who religiously collects vinyl,…
Chainsaw Girl embodies Portland’s DIY creative spirit
Portland’s do-it-yourself music scene has been part of what makes the city special for decades. Chainsaw Girl embodies this ethos perfectly. The group started when guitarists Manny and Kei met…
Another person’s treasure?
For the past five months, five Portland-area artists have sorted through mountains of discarded objects at the Metro Central Transfer Station (aka the “dump”), hand-selecting items to turn into the…
What does it mean to die well?
Ruth Jenkins would like you to think about death. Specifically, the Portland-based playwright and actor wants her audience to consider end-of-life care, along with the complex web of emotions, decisions…
Witness a fusion of theater and dance at Heart of Stone
When longtime friends and artists Olga Kravtsova and Alisher Khasanov decided to produce the theatrical dance performance that would become Heart of Stone, they knew they wanted to create something…
The Room
The Room is a 2003 cult classic film written, produced and directed by Tommy Wiseau that follows a successful banker named Johnny (Wiseau) after his fiancé Lisa (Juliette Danielle) cheats…
Creative Spotlight: Sherrie Wolf
It doesn’t take much more than a glance to see the careful intention behind the arrangement of objects in Sherrie Wolf’s still life paintings. Many of the scenes are busy,…
Not your average movie night
Muriel Lucas wants you to watch something new. “I’m always just looking for something different [to show],” the Portland-based cinephile and event organizer said. “Something…that speaks to people, that they…
Validating the deep, dark and painful
Who are we? Why are we here? What makes us alive? Scholars and artists have pondered and drawn inspiration from these core questions of identity for millennia—and poet and visual…