More than 200 people gathered in Shemanski Park behind the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on an intermittently rainy Sunday, Sept. 17 afternoon to listen to speakers discuss a range of…
Off-campus events calendar: Oct. 3–9
FEATURED EVENT FILM FESTIVAL 22nd Annual H.P. Lovecraft Festival Oct. 6–8 Hollywood Theatre $22–62, all ages Three nights & days of international films inspired by the eldritch writings of Rhode…
Globalization bites: street dogs with a twist
On the corner in front of Portland State’s Branford Price Millar Library sits a small blue food cart. It’s called Dogs and Fries, and it’s owned and operated by Hossein Talebi….
Come to the ‘Fun Home’: Portland Center Stage’s Alison Bechdel Musical
Fun Home, produced by Portland Center Stage and playing now through Oct. 22 at The Armory, is about memory. It’s about coming to terms with pieces of your past and…
Ecstatic Rock: King Gizzard at Crystal Ballroom
As I sat in bed listening to the most recent King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard album, Sketches of Brunswick East—a collaboration with Mild High Club released this August, KG’s…
Politics in theater: Artists Repertory Theatre season preview
The 35th anniversary season of Artists Repertory Theatre, located in Southwest Portland near Providence Park, promises to be one hell of a year. ART’s seven plays have been specifically curated…
Becoming gold: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘The Holy Mountain’
Vanguard editors Matthew N. Andrews (Arts & Culture) and Andrew D. Jankowski (Online & Social Media) attended NW Film Center’s sold-out screenings of The Holy Mountain (1973). Andrew narrates, Matthew comments: I…
Off-campus events calendar: Sept. 26–Oct. 2
FEATURED EVENT FILM FESTIVAL 17th Annual Portland Queer Film Festival Sept. 29-Oct. 5 Cinema 21 $10-75, all ages Called “Portland Gay & Lesbian Film Festival” until this year, PQFF features…
On-campus events calendar: Sept. 26–Oct. 2
FEATURED EVENT FILM Magic Mike XXL (2015) Sept. 29–Oct. 1 5th Avenue Cinema $4–5 (free w/PSU ID), all ages The sequel to Magic Mike (2012) is a road film, a masculinity film,…
You can’t remake memories
As a current trend, Disney has been remaking its classic cartoons into live action movies. Starting with Tim Burton’s 2010 version of Alice in Wonderland, Disney marches forward with the recent…
Tyrone’s Strings Hold Everyone Down
Hang the cape up, Dracula. Yo, Frankenstein…take a long ass cat nap. Jack the Ripper? As if. There’s a new villain in town and it takes the form a worn-out…