The 30th Annual Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival kicked-off at the Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland on Friday, June 30. The Blues Festival is currently organized by the Oregon…
Off-campus events: July 4–10
FEATURED EVENT MUSIC FESTIVAL 30th Annual Waterfront Blues Festival June 30–July 4 Tom McCall Waterfront Park $10–15, all ages Some of America’s best blues musicians take over the waterfront for…
Summertime reading catch-up: Nina LaCour’s ‘We Are Okay’
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour is the kind of book I wish I had gotten my hands on when I was a teenager. It is the kind of book…
On-campus events: July 4–10
FEATURED EVENT FILM Eraserhead (1977) Friday, July 7, 7 p.m. Whitsell Auditorium $6–9, all ages The inaugural screening of NW Film Center’s David Lynch retrospective starts with one of Lynch’s…
It’s all good in the hood
Portland’s annual Good in the Hood Festival celebrated its 25th year as a northeast community staple at Lillie Albina Park June 23–25 despite recent threats against event organizer Shawn Penney….
On-campus events: July 11–17
FEATURED EVENT THEATRE The Other Mozart 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 11 Lincoln Performance Hall $10–60, all ages Chamber Music Northwest presents an off-Broadway musical about Nannerl Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus’…
Summertime reading catch-up: Leigh Bardugo’s ‘Crooked Kingdom’
Last week I finished up my first year in my master’s program. I celebrated by doing absolutely nothing. I walked the dog. I drank many cups of coffee (that I…
Cheers and jeers pay the same at Corey Feldman show
In the realm of a gritty director breathing new lives into their acting careers, Corey Feldman seems closer to the spectrum of Danny Bonaduce and Lindsay Lohan than Robert Downey,…
On-campus events: June 27–July 3
FEATURED EVENT THEATER Cabaret June 27—July 2 Keller Auditorium $25—80, all ages Roundabout Theatre Company hosts the camp classic about a pre-WWII German cabaret, the Kit Kat Klub, and their…
Off-campus events: June 27–July 3
FEATURED EVENT CONVENTION Oz Con 2017 June 30–July 2 Airport Sheraton $17.50–72, all ages This annual convention celebrates the work of L. Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz…
Corey Harper’s Homecoming Show Feels Like a House Party
Being at Mississippi Studios this Wednesday night in May is like exploring a parallel universe of what life would have been like if I had gone to the same high…