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The landmark gay bathhouse Club Portland, long-held as a Stark Street icon of sorts and quite possibly the largest bathhouse on the West Coast — is closing its doors for good this Sunday, June 17, as first reported at this writer's non-WW More
Landmark Club Portland Bathhouse Set to Close
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The landmark gay bathhouse Club Portland, long-held as a Stark Street icon of sorts and quite possibly the largest bathhouse on the West Coast — is closing its doors for good this Sunday, June 17, as first reported at this writer's non-WW More
Creative Town Hall Sparks Fly
News Commissioner Sam Adams' Creative Capacity Town Hall Tuesday night elicited cheers, hissing and words both harsh and heady from Portland's creative community, about 300 of whom showed up to the Gerding Theater at the Armory to voice opinions on "what it will take to unlock Portland's full creative capaci... More
Portland Gay Men's Chorus
A bunch of gay guys singing the words of Jesus, Gandhi...and Mother Teresa?
Performance Wigs and pumps. Sequins and showtunes. Red ribbons and tuxes. There is truly nothing as maddeningly old-school GAY (sorry, it had to be in caps, folks) as a gay men's chorus concert. As the gay and l ... More
Cheap Eats 2007
Food Reviews & Stories This cavernous self-described Oriental specialties restaurant is a thoroughly authentic Chinatown diner the perfect place to fill your tummy with a tasty dim sum lunch or on the weekends with pre-club grub. And it doesn't get much grubbier in the best sense than greasy-cheesy crab puffs (10 for $4.9 More
Portland Symphonic Choir
Beethoven's Ninth: Kubrick loved it, and you should, too.
Performance Steve Zopfi knows he's scaling the musical equivalent of Mount Hood by preparing his Portland Symphonic Choir for their upcoming performance of Beethoven's magisterial Ninth Symphony. But harnessed to ... More
Attack of the Kids' Choirs!
PDX young'uns sing it up, duke it out for attention.
Performance If your idea of what warbling youngsters look or sound like is limited to the buttoned-up brats from the von Trapp Family Singers or the snooty airs of the Vienna Boys' Choir, you may want to reconsid ... More
Oregon ballet theatre
Sex sells with a stand-out couple, a Greek god and horny sailors.
Performance Without question, the sexiest couple on Portland stages right now is Kathi Martuza and Jon Drake in Julia Adam's il nodo at the Newmark Theatre. About halfway through Adam's darkly comic ballet from 2 ... More
Whatever, Lute Dude!
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"Whatever dude!"
That was the street-screech salutation which greeted lutenist Ronn McFarlane halfway through his opening set of tunes at the Broderick Gallery on April 27. It came as ... More
Dayton Contemporary Dance Co./White Bird 2007-2008
Sky's the limit for Rennie Harris and White Bird's next season.
Performance Rennie Harris, master hip-hop choreographer, doesn't like the projections of hip-hop culture he sees and hears on TV, radio and the Internet. "Hip-hop has evolved; there's no one way to do it," he say ... More
Cavalcade of BEAUTIFUL Losers
Taking opera to the People—the Drunk People—at Someday Lounge
Featured Stories It's Thursday night, and on a nearly bare stage in Old Town, petite young soprano Elizabeth D. Bacon—in skimpy white nightgown and pigtails—is singing the hell out of Gounod's darkly impas ... More
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The artist/inventor/entrepreneur returns to Portland, golden tits and bling in tow. Portland Sacred Harp Singing
Attention, shoppers: Loud Protestant hymn singing in Aisle 3. Opera Theater Oregon: Opera Cinema—Carmen
Buxom Madsen-Bradford Bares All as Carmen. Altar Boyz
All genuflect to the catholic tastes of a cult musical hit. Amy Schwartz Moretti
What does it say about Portland arts that the 30-year-old concertmaster of the Oregon Symphony is leaving for Georgia? Portland Gay Men's Chorus
A bunch of gay guys singing the words of Jesus, Gandhi...and Mother Teresa? Brian Ferriso
New Portland Art Museum executive director says what he really thinks about football fans and art snobs. Jun Iwasaki & the Oregon Symphony
A new town, a new sound and a big raise for this young violinist. Wade Mccollum
What a standout Portland actor really thinks about local theater. Key Turn Project
Free eats and cheap drinks can't save a free-falling new dance company.
The artist/inventor/entrepreneur returns to Portland, golden tits and bling in tow. Portland Sacred Harp Singing
Attention, shoppers: Loud Protestant hymn singing in Aisle 3. Opera Theater Oregon: Opera Cinema—Carmen
Buxom Madsen-Bradford Bares All as Carmen. Altar Boyz
All genuflect to the catholic tastes of a cult musical hit. Amy Schwartz Moretti
What does it say about Portland arts that the 30-year-old concertmaster of the Oregon Symphony is leaving for Georgia? Portland Gay Men's Chorus
A bunch of gay guys singing the words of Jesus, Gandhi...and Mother Teresa? Brian Ferriso
New Portland Art Museum executive director says what he really thinks about football fans and art snobs. Jun Iwasaki & the Oregon Symphony
A new town, a new sound and a big raise for this young violinist. Wade Mccollum
What a standout Portland actor really thinks about local theater. Key Turn Project
Free eats and cheap drinks can't save a free-falling new dance company.
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