I’m always on the lookout for an album I can obsess over. Discovering a binge-worthy album gets even better when I find a modern classic from a working band I…
Portland Ballet Joins PSU Orchestra for Thanksgiving Weekend
Hopefully you’re all planning a nice Thanksgiving holiday weekend, whether you’re spending time with your family (biological or otherwise), having Friendsgiving or taking advantage of your extra days off to catch…
A drop in the ocean: Portland State Chamber Choir’s ethos of cooperation
The Portland State Chamber Choir can add two more achievements to its long list of successes: It’s the first American choir to compete in the Bali International Choral Festival, where…
What’s in a Symphony?
We’ve all heard a symphony before. There’s Beethoven’s famous Fifth with its notorious “dun dun dun duuuun.” Most of us at least know that one and maybe a few others,…
PSU violin professor Tomas Cotik talks Piazzolla, new album
Big news from the Portland State School of Music and Theatre, as violin professor Tomas Cotik prepares to release his latest CD, Piazzolla: Legacy, on Oct. 13 through leading classical…
Jacques Tati’s ‘Playtime’ at Northwest Film Center
You’ve probably never heard of Jacques Tati. If you have, you’ve already bought your ticket to see Northwest Film Center’s rare(ish) 35mm print of Tati’s late masterpiece, 1967’s Playtime, screening…
“Magic Mike XXL:” Love Letter from Hollywood Channing Tatum to Florida Channing Tatum
Withering penises of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for your consideration to fill Brad Pitt’s trajectory from Teen Sex Object to Prestigious Masculinity LAARPer: Channing Matthew Tatum….
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…
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…
Three Oh Sees previews: dancers, stoners, music nerds
Alright, so all y’all inveterate Oh Sees fans, you can skip this little article. You bought your tickets to the newly ‘Thee’-less, freshly Paul Quattrone–d, Orc-touring Oh Sees’ Sept. 25…
Portland (& PSU alum) Drag Queen Sugarpill talks queer youth upbringing, art, politics and Allie X
Portland State Alum, Sugarpill. Titles held by the 22-year-old Sugarpill include Rosebud XXXVIII, Power Word: Protest | Critical Mascara (T:BA) 2015, Miss Jr. Gay Portland Pride 2014–15, Drag-a-Thon: All Stars…