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Miriam/The Quiet Volume

Previews for week one of PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival.


Performance
Nora Chipaumire is a force of nature. The Zimbabwe-born, New York City-based choreographer has a style both visceral and regal, evoking a powerful and charismatic bird of prey. Chipaumire’s crea   More
 
Wednesday, September 5, 2012 REBECCA JACOBSON

Trek in the Park (Atomic Arts)

Set phasers to “mildly entertaining.”


Performance
The audience at Cathedral Park looked so normal. They licked Popsicles, fanned themselves with their programs and drank bottles of craft brew. There were kids. And dogs! There were surely other    More
 
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 REBECCA JACOBSON

Kabuki Titus (Bag&Baggage)

Turning Shakespeare Japanese.


Performance
In Japanese Kabuki theater, tricks of costuming and staging assist actors as they undergo swift transformations or make sudden revelations. It’s a theme applied to bold effect in Bag&Bagga   More
 
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 REBECCA JACOBSON

The Odd Couple (Clackamas Repertory Theatre)

What a sweet old couple!


Performance
Here’s something of a confession (and perhaps a disclaimer): I’ve never seen the movie version of The Odd Couple. I’m familiar with the plot, of course, and I’ve watched maybe half an epis   More
 
Wednesday, July 4, 2012 REBECCA JACOBSON

Penelope (Third Rail Repertory Theatre)

Talkin’ loud and sayin’ too much.


Performance
In middle school, I acted in a production of The Odyssey. Bored by a dumbed-down script, our adolescent cast attempted to punch it up with absurdity: Circe wore a sweater vest yet spoke in slang.    More
 
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 REBECCA JACOBSON

It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues (Portland Center Stage)

Pitchin’ a wang-dang doodle, and little else.


Performance
The history of the blues is complex, meandering its way from rhythmic African chants to Southern spirituals to Chicago pop hits. In Portland Center Stage’s final production of the season, howeve   More
 
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 REBECCA JACOBSON

Gigantic Brewing: Giant’s Lair


Bar Reviews
Unless you work at a powder-coating warehouse or metal fabricator, this industrial stretch of Southeast 26th Avenue is no destination. It’s a peculiar location for cheekily named Gigantic Brewin   More
 
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 REBECCA JACOBSON

Keys To Survival

A St. Paddy’s Day option if you’re plowed at a bar and want to go home with your car.


Featured Stories
It is nearly midnight on a clear Friday. We are parked on East Burnside Street outside Rontoms, our hazard lights flashing and our windows down. The moon is full.    More
 
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 REBECCA JACOBSON

Anti-War Rally Planned For Pioneer Square This Saturday

Pioneer Courthouse Square

News
Supporters of more than 50 groups plan to turn out this Saturday, March 19 at Pioneer Courthouse Square to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The date marks the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Saturday’s rally of labor, faith-based, peace and environmental justice organizations will highlight the link between the economic downturn and the ongoing wars in the Middle Ea...   More
 
Monday, March 14, 2011 by REBECCA JACOBSON

Protesters Rally Against Portland's Participation in the JTTF

protest

News
Despite the cancellation of today’s City Council hearing on whether Portland should rejoin the federal Joint Terrorism Task Force, about 70 protesters still turned out at City Hall this afternoon to oppose the city’s participation in the JTTF. Chanting “No secrets...   More
 
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by REBECCA JACOBSON
 

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