Arts & Books While reading the biographies for the dancers in Botanica, one can’t help but imagine some of them spent years training in classical ballet only to be cut from the company. Maybe the phone call to their parents went something like, “You know what, Mom, forget it! I’m just going to spend my dance career riding giant Triceratops puppets.”
There is indeed a giant Triceratops puppet ...   More

Arts & Books Pitting two choreographers against each other in back-to-back acts may not be a plea for competition, but that’s how the audience will interpret it.

That might be why so many were quick to pick a favorite after Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s one-night appearance in Portland. The show, presented by    More

Q & A Snatching a spot on RuPaul’s Drag Race is the quickest way for a drag queen to make it big, and the show’s newest season features its first contestant from the Pacific Northwest: Jinkx Monso   More

Features The promoter for Sexapalooza, a trade show this past weekend at the Oregon Convention Center, made it very clear this was not a “sleazy” event: “No porn stars,” reads the press release.

I found this perplexing as I walked the barely lit aisles of Sexapalooza. Surrounded by sex toys, a topless woman and a 6-foot-tall poster...   More

Movies & Television I imagine the religious right’s idea of Portland looks a lot like the Hump film festival: a crowd of young, drunk liberals gathering to watch amateur porn.
The crowd for the Saturday midnight showing at Cinema 21 was loud and giddy, as usual. They funneled into the theater and swiftly threw their jackets over their ...   More

Q & A Portland is officially the least religious city in the country, according to a recent study. So it’s fitting that the largest atheist organization in the country, the...   More

Performance A Portland theater company is tackling Avenue Q, the raunchy, Sesame Street-inspired musical about existential twentysomethings. The show’s popularity promises high expectations for Triangle Pro   More

Food & Drink Portland gay bar CC Slaughters has decided where it stands on the issue of banning bachelorette parties. The new policy is this: it's fine to be a bachelorette. Just don't throw it in our faces.Gay bars in May heard renewed calls from clientele to ban bachelorette parties after popular West Hollywood bar the Abbey    More

Performance Forgive me if this review is overly critical. I was pissed when I saw this show because my date flaked. Apparently, 10:30 pm is too late for a show when you have work in the morning. That left m   More

Culture It’s the last show at Darcelle XV Showplace on a muggy Friday night. The audience is a mixed bag: a birthday party in the center, friends of a drag queen near the wall, a posse of bros in the    More