Books Billy Collins is a companionable poet. Not for him the perishable novelties of postmodernist quote lifting (and attendant concerns with typeface) or the ephemeral taunts and tirades of slam. No, our m ... More
All About Me
Billy Collins is a rarity: an American poet with a large following.
Books Billy Collins is a companionable poet. Not for him the perishable novelties of postmodernist quote lifting (and attendant concerns with typeface) or the ephemeral taunts and tirades of slam. No, our m ... More
Literary Politics
In 2003, the world took stock while local writers filled our bookshelves.
Books Flipping through the publishing catalogs, there's clear evidence that 2003 became, necessarily by war, a political year. For Portland readers and literati, however, it was also a year that saw a slew ... More
Bargain Centered
Stark Raving's Faust. Us. is a good experiment with mixed results.
Performance Portland playwright Joseph Fisher's latest piece is such a successful burlesque of Goethe's Faust that his play's second half is as convoluted and unsatisfying as that of its source. Still, this is a ... More
ALL MY CHILDREN
Two plays take an anguished view of child-parent relationships.
Performance The eternal struggle between parent and child is currently being given two very distinct treatments on Portland stages. The first, a play by a famed British playwright, tackles the topic of clonin ... More
CiRCUS WORLD
Cirque du Soleil rises over Portland again with its most popular production.
Featured Stories I have seen cynics melt into giddiness at the very mention of Cirque du Soleil. The famed Canadian circus, spread across the inhabited world now in a series of shows, has redefined one of the olde ... More
King Sized Up
Featured Stories The decision by the National Book Foundation to honor Stephen King for his "distinguished contribution to American letters" has sparked the proverbial war of words in the country's literary commun ... More
Portland, they wrote.
Books Portland is a city of readers. But you know that. Whether it's the rain, our fertile brains or the easy availability of used copies of Gravity's Rainbow, this city worships at the church of the wr ... More
Broadway Comes to Podunk
The American Film Theatre series once brought the best of modern drama to the local Bijou.
Movie Reviews & Stories There weren't many opportunities for me to see live theater while growing up in the agrarian purgatory of Clark County, Wash., where the only drama lay in outrunning shotgun blasts from kindly n ... More
CAST ON A HOT Tin House
Tin House magazine's first summer writers workshop was a success even without crowds.
Books In the latest issue of The Organ, novelist Matthew Stadler presents an excellent argument against the type of summer writing workshop that Tin House inaugurated last week at Reed College. Stadler ... More
Letting Underdogs Lie
News In a bit of spin worthy of the White House, Portland Center Stage's artistic director, Chris Coleman, explains in the latest issue of American Theatre magazine why the theater will not be staging a pr ... More
Top Articles from Steffen Silvis
PORTLAND, THEY WROTE
Ten authors. Ten stories. One city. CHANGE OF SCENE
Two popular cafes, Cafe Lena and La Patisserie, have changed hand and style. Revolt into Style
The magazine Bloody Beautiful and its creator demand a return to smartness. The Winners Circle
The Drammy Awards (a.k.a. the Willies) hit their 25th year of celebrating the best of Portland theater. Drawing Boy (and Girl)
Four artists illustrate their love for Matt Groening and Lynda Barry. Dead Cool
Liminal's The Resurrectory is a walk-through nightmare (and that's a good thing). THE SEVEN-YEAR ITCH
WW's longtime theater critic says goodbye to all that. Bone Settlers
Portlander Jonathan Raymond's new novel unearths two Northwest friendships from two different centuries. REFLECTING IMAGES
An artist responds to the death of her artist brother. Street Zen
Hand 2 Mouth stages the life of Issan Dorsey, the man who went from whore to holiness.
Ten authors. Ten stories. One city. CHANGE OF SCENE
Two popular cafes, Cafe Lena and La Patisserie, have changed hand and style. Revolt into Style
The magazine Bloody Beautiful and its creator demand a return to smartness. The Winners Circle
The Drammy Awards (a.k.a. the Willies) hit their 25th year of celebrating the best of Portland theater. Drawing Boy (and Girl)
Four artists illustrate their love for Matt Groening and Lynda Barry. Dead Cool
Liminal's The Resurrectory is a walk-through nightmare (and that's a good thing). THE SEVEN-YEAR ITCH
WW's longtime theater critic says goodbye to all that. Bone Settlers
Portlander Jonathan Raymond's new novel unearths two Northwest friendships from two different centuries. REFLECTING IMAGES
An artist responds to the death of her artist brother. Street Zen
Hand 2 Mouth stages the life of Issan Dorsey, the man who went from whore to holiness.
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