Featured Stories We all know about The Hunted. Almost two years ago, Hollywood came slumming in the City of Roses and Portland obliged obsequiously. Sure, there were some uncomfortable moments--the bogarting of th ... More
THE ELUDED
Snippets from the screenplay of The Hunted that Hollywood doesn't want you to see.
Featured Stories We all know about The Hunted. Almost two years ago, Hollywood came slumming in the City of Roses and Portland obliged obsequiously. Sure, there were some uncomfortable moments--the bogarting of th ... More
Publish or Perish
Three small publishers add to Portland's literary reputation
Books Does Portland really have more bookstores per capita than any other American city? The statistics to substantiate this are impossible to locate, and no fewer than four other cities (Seattle; Cambridge ... More
ORIGINAL CAST MEMBER
Puppetry of the Penis puts the male organ back on center stage.
Featured Stories Meet My Penis, by byron beckHaving a Penis Is..., by grant menzies Since Thespis fronted a chorus of phallus wavers at an ancient Greek festival of Dionysus in 534 B.C., the penis has been an integral ... More
Only Connect
A mini-Albee festival hasn't quite achieved its balance.
Performance Two pairs of couples--a middle-aged academic pair and a younger variation of them, an older, retired husband and wife, and a reptilian version of them--have, in the thick of life's storms, each ot ... More
The Art of Tyranny
The three-day ROMP symposium at Reed College reminds us how artists must respond to terror.
Performance Steeped in the holy genocides of Joshua and Deuteronomy, former seminarian Iosif Dzhugashvili managed to marry the fanaticism of his abandoned Christianity with a totalitarian political structure ... More
Year End 2002-- WORDS
We like books in 2002--a reread.
Books 1. Portland's pop star of lit, Chuck Palahniuk, released another bestseller, Lullaby. But there are mumblings in book corners that Palahniuk is in danger of becoming formulaic.2. Portland's grande ... More
Year End 2002-- STAGE
"Someone get this actor a real director," and other highlights.
Performance The calendar for the Stage is anti-Gregorian, as the year begins a bit before September. So here are our "bests" thus far this season.1. Artists' Repertory Theatre's smart production of The Shape of ... More
Cats in a Jam
A new crime novel is a kittenish effort.
Books Never underestimate the power of National Public Radio. On Saturday, Dec. 14, British writer Nick Smith presented his new book, Milk Treading, on All Things Considered. Within hours of his appeara ... More
Revolt into Style
The magazine Bloody Beautiful and its creator demand a return to smartness.
Books "Throw your coat on the lion," Doran Wittelsbach instructed me upon entering his home, and so I draped my sodden raincoat across the back of the rather mild-mannered taxidermied lion guarding the ... More
BIGLITTLESHOW
Imago premieres its long-awaited follow-up to Frogz.
Performance Beachball-colored humanoids, monochromatic dervishes by way of Bauhaus and a self-segmenting caterpillar. If it's Portland, this must be Imago.The company that released the ingenious Frogz upon the ... 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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