Featured Stories It's 2:30 in the morning when Ryan Alexander-Tanner shows up at my doorstep to be interviewed. He's a self-described "chronic insomniac," so it's a natural hour for the bespectacled, 6-foot-4 comic ar ...   More

Visual Arts Jim Riswold has a knack for imbuing his photographs with subversive yet somehow non-threatening irony, a talent well showcased at Augen in three shows over the course of the past year and a half. The ...   More

Visual Arts TJ Norris is one of those people you don't appreciate until they go away. The erstwhile director of Soundvision gallery (Everett Station Lofts, 2002-2003), Norris was easy to take for granted. During ...   More

Visual Arts Run, don't walk, to Motel to see two of the most knee-weakening paintings to hit Stumptown since Tim Bavington's show at Pulliam Deffenbaugh four years ago. Twenty-eight-year-old Omar Chacon, who stud ...   More

Visual Arts Generally, a portraitist is only as good as his subjects. Up until now, this has worked in Jock Sturges' favor, as he's photographed nudist families in Northern California and the South of France, mak ...   More

Visual Arts Whoever decided to hold Cascade AIDS Project's annual "Art for Life" benefit at the Oregon Convention Center must've been smoking a bowl. It would be hard to imagine a tackier, more déclass&eac ...   More

Visual Arts British art critic Roger Cardinal didn't realize what a can of worms he was opening in 1972 when he coined the term "Outsider Art." He was looking for a suitable translation for the French term "Art B ...   More

Visual Arts One of Patricia Bellan-Gillen's paintings at Butters shows a monkey sitting atop a jack-o'-lantern, an orange sailboat floating over its right shoulder. Bellan-Gillen also likes to paint frogs and bil ...   More

Visual Arts If gonzo artist Ralph Steadman were a Gen-Y Portlander instead of a 59-year-old Brit, chances are he'd be making work like Justin Gorman and Caleb Freese's collaborations in the Backspace annex. Gorma ...   More

Visual Arts One of the most invigorating shows in an all-around amazing month for visual arts is Portland Art Center's group show, Boredom: I Learned It by Watching You (an odd title for a show that is far from b ...   More