It was a rainy afternoon in 1969 when Music Millennium first opened its doors. Music Millennium celebrated its half-century at 3 p.m. on March 15—exactly 50 years after the store…
Garbage Day
About halfway through Kuei Chih-Hung’s 1983 fever dream The Boxer’s Omen, an evil wizard eats a bunch of animal guts, pukes them up, eats the gut-puke again then spits it…
Life Coming to Fruition
Portland Center Stage’s production of Tiny Beautiful Things, Nia Vardalos’ adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s book of the same name, opened March 1. The book, published a few months after the…
Events Calendar March 12–18
Tuesday, March 12 Art “Immerse” Stephanie Chefas Project Tue–Fri: Noon–6 p.m. through March 22 Free Yellena James uses multiple layers of resin to create grandiose pieces that channel “chimerical landscapes.”…
‘House of Price’ mini-festival reminds viewers true meaning of horror
Horror’s originators, as actors and directors, captured the core of conceptual fear in a simplistic, yet entirely unorthodox manner for the era. One of those pioneers was Vincent Price, the…
#DisarmPSU Film Festival addresses issues of violence and race
#DisarmPSU Film Festival, hosted by 5th the Portland State University Student Union, was a three-day long event of films, lectures and workshops that focused on the roots of resistance, especially…
Sex & Chocolate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USGkFvL-Z_I Health promotion staff from Portland State’s Center for Student Health and Counseling hosted “Sex and Chocolate” on Feb. 25 at Smith Memorial Student Union. The event was advertised as...
Events Calendar March 5–March 11
Tuesday, March 5 Art “Forty by Forty: Paintings from Mother Winter” Powell’s City of Books (Downtown) 9 a.m.–11 p.m. through March 31 Free To celebrate the start of Women’s History…
A Black Arts Party
Reed College hosted its 2nd Annual Black Arts Festival and Black Indigenous People of Color (BiPOC) Community Marketplace on Feb. 23, and it was the most popping celebration of Blackness…
Garbage Day
I want to start by emphasizing the above statement: This is a film where Rutger Hauer—best known for playing Roy Batty in Blade Runner and the titular killer in The…
Snake-ish tendencies
Ssssssssssssss. Hear that? That’s the sound of the sneaky snakes scheming to scam you at this very moment. Curious to learn how you can subvert them? There’s a symposium for…