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OregonLive.com, the online presence of The Oregonian newspaper (both owned by Advance Publications), has made what appears to be a big misstep with their arts coverage by launching a thinly veiled attempt to woo the Portland metro theatre community with a non-critical, insider-based blo...   More

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8:30 pm Wednesday, Sept. 12

Claude Wampler: PERFORMANCE (career ender)

I should have known it was going to be an odd night when the lesbian in silver stretch pants accosted me in line at the Gerding Armory Theater, demanding to know if I'd heard of s...   More

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10 pm Tuesday, Sept. 11

The Works @ Wonder Ballroom

The most-talked-about event of TBA: 07 has got to be their late night art party, "The Works" at the Wonder Ballroom.   More

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Sunday, Sept. 9: Various venues
Why was it that the clown makeup bedecked drag queen moved me beyond description, but the well-pedigreed contemporary dance company from NYC left me cold?
This is what's been knocking around in my too-stuffed head this morning after seven consecuti...   More

News 8:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 8

Gerding Theater Armory

Marc Bamuthi Joseph's travelogue, The Living Word Project: the break/s, traces fantastic journeys through global hip-hop culture and eventually into Joseph's own conflicted hip-hop heart. "Authen...   More

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Kenny Mellman is sweeping into PDX for a surprise cabaret show Wednesday, Sept 12 (9 pm onward) at 23Hoyt. Will Northwest 23rd Ave. will ever be the same?

Mellman's the kind of pianist you'd find tinkling away at any Gree...   More

News This is difficult to write, but PICA's TBA: 07 festival-opening performance last night in Pioneer Courthouse Square of Rinde Eckert's new work, On the Great Migration of Excellent Bird...   More

Performance While the savvy arts execs up north at the Seattle Symphony were grabbing headlines—and turning heads—with their nontraditional decision to name four violinists as rotating orchestra conce ...   More

Bar Reviews You know a salsa club is authentic when the owner’s name is (wait for it…) Roger Rumba. You also know it’s a sweet spot when there are more people busting a sweat dancing than busti ...   More

Performance If there’s a choral mafia in Portland, then Dean Applegate is our Tony Soprano. Not that Applegate is ordering hits on competing conductors—those things just don’t happen in the sa ...   More