A system built on stolen ground, laws that exploit indigenous peoples and jail their activists, and a people left with few options, little land and no representation. The setting could…
Opera Scholarship Competition
When one thinks of a competition, opera may not be the first thing that comes to mind, but Portland State has been holding an annual opera scholarship competitions since the…
Oscar nominations fail to address criticisms
The Oscar nominations have been released, and the conversation is the same as it has been for the past four years. With change happening incredibly slowly and the nomination pool…
Portland folk community comes together for annual festival
The difference between a folk festival and a farmer’s market may seem distinguishable on the surface, but the third annual Portland Folk Festival raised objections. The festival—put on by local…
Young writers find new space in St. Johns
Two Rivers Bookstore in St. Johns started a weekly reading program where teens from the neighborhood get a chance to read their work aloud. The event, called “V is for…
Events Calendar Jan. 12–18
Tue, Jan. 14 Art Billions and Billions Multnomah Arts Center 9 a.m.–9:30 p.m. Free New monoprints from Portland artist Jonathan Barcan, inspired by the philosophy of Alan Watts and…
Our changing city: Losing Chinatown
Decades of neglect and mismanagement by the city’s government has left Portland’s historic Chinatown district a ghost of its former self. Historically a center for the marginalized Chinese-American community in…
THE FINAL GARBAGE DAY
Folks, it’s come to this. I’ve covered slashers, killer animal flicks, foreign ripoffs and blind samurai played by Roy from Blade Runner. But there’s one realm of movie garbage I…
Oregon Symphony performs Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’
Not quite opera, not quite play, not quite a typical symphony; the Oregon Symphony’s production of The Tempest defied simple categorization and played with the idea of what to expect…
Events Calendar Dec. 3–9
Tue, Dec. 3 Art Brian Oaster & Angelita Surmon Lan Su Chinese Garden 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Free, with canned food donation New oil works by two artists displayed at the…
20th anniversary of ‘Oregon Jewish Voices’
Jewish authors interrogate their own identities For the past two decades, audiences have gathered to hear the voices of Jewish writers in Oregon at the annual Oregon Jewish Voices event….