“Who wants to die for art?” Dawn Davenport (Divine) screams before shooting a willful volunteer to death in a packed nightclub theater. She’s just strangled her own daughter to death,…
Nice girls don’t wear cha-cha heels
If you’re familiar with John Waters’ movies, you’re either a huge fan or are generally baffled by his continued popularity in the underground film circuit. I highly doubt that film…
Viking Sports Snapshot March 11-18
Softball: Friday, March 16 Portland State vs Bryant University Score: 6-1 (W) PSU Vikings Alyssa Burk and Ashley Doyle turned heads playing against the Bryant Bulldogs. Burk threw a career-high…
Why we need another ‘race play’
Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis (The Motherf**ker with the Hat, The Get-Down) opened at Artists Repertory Theatre on Saturday, March 10. This production is only four years…
Gay strip club Silverado moving from downtown Portland
Silverado, the Pacific Northwest’s oldest male strip club, will vacate after ten years at its current downtown Portland location. According to a March 23 Facebook post, Silverado is seeking a…
Redefining Reality in ‘Blade Runner 2049’
Director Dennis Villeneuve’s 2017 film, Blade Runner: 2049, is the caliber of movie that must be viewed in an optimum-calibrated theater. Seeing it at Parkway North in January wasn’t the…
Portland bar owner publishes employee data online
Editor’s note: The screenshot obtained by Portland State Vanguard was already edited by another Facebook user to hide the employee’s SSN and address, but has since been edited to obscure…
The breathtaking performances of ‘Arabian Nights’
Arabian Nights, a historic Metropolitan Youth Symphony concert featured two world premiers—violinist Katie Palka, as well as Rimsky-Korsakov’s ever-popular Scheherazade—on March 4 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. As maestro…
Feminist Frida Fest
On March 8, International Women’s Day, more than 180 members of the Portland State community squeezed into La Casa Latina Student Center to celebrate Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907–1954), who…
ariella tai’s ”hoe dor” curates Black aesthetic glitches
The opening reception of ariella tai’s “hoe dor,” an exhibition of glitch art inspired by Game of Thrones character Hodor (Kristian Nairn), took place on Friday, March 9 at Open…
Thrive-X-perience
Finding a way to shut off my hyperactive thinking has always been difficult, and I often feel frustrated and disappointed. However, I recently stumbled upon Thrive X, a weekly meditation…