To celebrate Poison and Tesla opening for Def Leppard tonight, our Online Editor, an obsessive fan of mid-aughts VH1 programming, gives you the ultimate queer guide to Poison frontman Bret…
PSU Experimental Film Showcase at 5th Avenue Cinema
As part of Matt McCormick’s advanced experimental film class at Portland State, students will be showcasing their experimental film series Juxtaposed Realities at 7 p.m. on Sunday, June 11 at 5th Avenue…
PSU Orchestra at Farmer’s Market or maybe not
You’re gonna be on campus this Saturday, right? Hanging out in the library, finishing papers, scanning textbooks, cramming for finals, checking out our astounding Dark Horse Comics holdings? Maybe you’ll…
Online exclusive: Q&A with Corinne Loperfido
Corinne Loperfido had a busy weekend when she visited Portland to host her quarterly sex-positive dance party, EveryBODY PDX: DIY Performance Art Strip Club. She was seen at numerous sex-positive…
Off-campus events: June 6–12
Featured Event FILM Portland Horror Film Festival June 8–10 Hollywood Theatre $16–55, all ages Second annual mass screening of 40+ local and international horror films. Thursday, June 8 CABARET BOYeurism 7:30…
On-campus events: June 8–12
Featured Event DANCE Summer Splendors June 8–10 Lincoln Performance Hall $34–58, all ages NW Dance Project’s artistic director, Sarah Slipper, rejoins the acclaimed Chopin Project to interpret the master composer’s…
Everything is under control: ‘Sons of the Prophet’ at PSU
“This play is all about family,” said Chet Wilson, who plays Bill in Portland State’s spring production of Tony-award winner Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet, running through June 3rd…
Live in the moment at Portland’s DIY Performance Art Strip Club
It’s hard to write about EveryBODY: DIY Performance Art Strip Club in a linear sense. NO PHOTOS was written in block letters on a Party City banner on stage, multiple…
The Importance of Being Earnest
Something magical happened while I was watching the Artist’s Repertory Theatre’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest. It was not just Oscar Wilde’s word sorcery. It was not just…
Write Around Portland
Write Around Portland recently released its 52nd book, Illuminated by the Words/ Iluminados por las palabras, an anthology elevating the voices of underrepresented Portland writers. The community-based writing workshop offers hospitals,…
Alive from Libya, it’s Wednesday at noon!
The Portland State University Studies program hosted a talk given by one of its mentors, Mohanad Elshieky, on May 17 in Smith Memorial Student Union. The local comedian presented a…