Performance Opera Theater Oregon does intriguing work. But is it opera? This question gnaws at the core of Portland’s scrappy young company. One voice of the company announces, “We’re hip! We&rs ...   More

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PICA's fifth annual Time-Based Art (T:BA) Festival experienced notable upticks in attendance, ticket sales and economic impact, according to a TBA Festival report recently published by the non-profit.   More

News When the Portland Center for the Performing Arts turned 10 in 1997, no expense was spared. There were balloons and specialty cocktails. Elegantly dressed servers offered high-end hors d’oeuvres& ...   More

Performance While reaching for a Granny Smith, the wall of sound rattled me. I dropped the apple, pulse racing: I had no idea such massive choral noises could emanate from inside a grocery store. I was at the Peo ...   More

Music [THEME NIGHT] There was something just so weird about the “Night of 1,000 Madonnas” concert/dance party/theme night at Holocene last Thursday. My mind has been troubled ever since. Maybe it was the way the thing was put together: Alternating straight-ahead DJ sets by electro-house duo Do N&rsqu...   More

Music Stories [THEME NIGHT] There was something just so weird about the “Night of 1,000 Madonnas” concert/dance party/theme night at Holocene last Thursday. My mind has been troubled ever since. Maybe ...   More

Q & A On the phone from Los Angeles, Justin Oswald is talking up an art installation he’s got on tap for the weekend. “My friend called me up and asked me to be a dirty Santa and I said, &lsquo ...   More

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So whatever happened to PICA and T:BA festival founder Kristy Edmunds? Didn't she decamp to Australia for a high-profile festival directorship or something?

She did.

And according to news reports and sources in Australia, her tenu...   More

News So yeah, the crowd of starry eyed singers at the Rose Garden last Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 26, was pretty much what you'd expect at a Portland talent cattle-call: clueless blondes from the burbs, overly excitable middle aged men and teeny pigtailed girls in spandex. And those were only the hopefuls that WW spoke with.

Without keeping you in further suspense, here are three ...   More

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“You will begin to write your concerto… You will work with great facility… The concerto will be of excellent quality...”

If a hypnotist whispered such suggestive things to you – half-asleep, perched perhaps on an antique chaise – what sort of ...   More