Food Reviews & Stories With its high-backed banquettes, off-kilter chandeliers, and darkly romantic ambience, the Gilt Club has kicked the class level of Everett Station Lofts up several notches. A menu of American cuisine incorporates seasonal local ingredients, such as the Oregon goat cheese that tops a salad of organic More
Restaurant Guide 2005
Food Reviews & Stories With its high-backed banquettes, off-kilter chandeliers, and darkly romantic ambience, the Gilt Club has kicked the class level of Everett Station Lofts up several notches. A menu of American cuisine incorporates seasonal local ingredients, such as the Oregon goat cheese that tops a salad of organic More
GILDED PLEASURE
Food Reviews & Stories The darkness is what hits you first. Walk into the Gilt Club and a sexy, silky darkness envelops you-it would evoke an old-school steak house, were the decor not so au courant. You notice the bar next ... More
ART WARS
Pastiche or Par-TAY? Conceptual or Sensual? Those questions are at the heart of the divide separating the art stars who are painting Portland's scene.
Visual Arts Two factions among Portland's young art-Turks are battling it out on the streets, from Everett to Alberta, and in shows everywhere in between. With their art and curatorial visions, both sides are doi ... More
Flaying Faces
Painter Joe Thurston peels off layers of skin to find what's underneath.
Visual Arts Painter Joe Thurston's style is shocking, even off-putting: portraits of women whose faces are, as he says, "flayed." Flayed as in "stripped of skin." His paintings are many things-confrontational, cr ... More
Break, Blow, Burn
Writer Camille Paglia on Jim Morrison's magical mushroom cult, a bisexual utopia and, oh yes, poetry.
Featured Stories Ever since she rocked the academic world with her 1990 battle cry, Sexual Personae, humanities professor-turned-provocateur Camille Paglia has enjoyed wide appeal. Her breathless, cross-disciplinary r ... More
Couture con Carne
With raw talent and raw meat, photographer Pinar Yolacan considers beauty and the aging process.
Visual Arts Pinar Yolacan has been an art-world wunderkind since the age of 16, when in 1997 her art was featured in the Turkish edition of Cosmopolitan magazine. Now 24, Yolacan has maintained that knack for gen ... More
Dressing Demise
Matthew Picton outfits destruction and decay in Day-Glo finery
Visual Arts "Let us recognize the fact once and for all…," wrote Piet Mondrian in 1920. "If you follow nature, you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in your art." The great neoplasticist saw the processes o ... More
Heroine Chic
Miss Mona Superhero tapes her way into fabulousness.
Visual Arts "Twenty-six days," Mona Superhero says to me in the bar at clarklewis, as we down the first of several screwdrivers."Huh?"She reaches up to her neck, pulls down her pink coat and rock-band tee, and fl ... More
OFF the RECORD
When the questions get tough, the artists get cold feet.
Visual Arts What artists say off the record is usually a lot more telling than what they say on the record. There's something about a reporter's notepad or tape recorder that can tighten the lips of even the loos ... More
Miami Art, Miami Vice
Portland art stars take the beach.
Visual Arts There's nothing like a jaunt to Miami to revivify sun-starved Stumptowners. Happily, the third annual Art Basel Miami Beach (Dec. 2-5) afforded a cadre of Portland's art trendsetters the opportunity t ... More
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Grass Hut wants to do bad things with you. The Fuzz That Was
Beaver or Brazilian? The latest Bush War has Portlanders tearing their hair out. Fall Arts Guide 2011: Bring On the Rain
Dayglo landscapes, feral children, killer choruses and more art to keep you sane this fall. Brad Carlile/Rio Wrenn
Confronting the myth of the great American road. Road Trip
Matt McCormick takes a look in Oregon’s rear-view mirror. Contemporary Northwest Art Awards
Portland Art Museum scores a hit with this showcase of thought-provoking Northwest art. Stage Sets
Three local shows ask where art ends and architecture begins. Best Portland Art of the Year 2012
Favorite shows and pieces from 2012. Christine Clark/Jay Steensma @ Nine Gallery/Pulliam Gallery
Two Portlanders confront impermanence. Contemporary Northwest Art Award Finalists
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