Books I was first gulled into reading Ayn Rand’s books the same way a lot of overachieving high-school kids were: by the promise of money. The conservative political foundation Rand started years ago ...   More

Books Why don’t Jonathan Lethem’s novels ever quite work? It’s a valid question, because it’s certainly not for lack of diligence (16 books under the belt at 45), nor for any lack of ...   More

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2 pm Saturday, Oct. 10 at the Oregon Convention Center:

Wordstock this year has been a somewhat smaller affair (in a recession, everything recedes), taking up one rather than two of the Convention Ce...   More

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Stumptown Producers Panel, Leftbank Cafe, Thursday, Oct. 8


We gathered in the airy, chi-chi industrial environs of Leftbank Café—before Stumptown's first-ever Producers Panel—for a coffee t...   More

Performance “Puccini is stupid,” wrote Ezra Pound. He’s right, of course, but only in a certain regard. Puccini is stupid in the way that rock ’n’ roll is stupid: It is purely viscer ...   More

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Storytelling is, of course, the oldest tradition there is (prostitution notwithstanding). But even back in the ancient and tribal days, it was professionalized. Elders or tale tellers or bards sorted themselves out from the rest of the pack and became the safeguards of it...   More

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Erik Friedlander is something of an evangelist for the cello, expanding it into previously unknown territories: in Middle-Eastern pop, say, or with the Mountain Goats, in noisy jazz ensembles with avant-jazz/new music composer   More

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Amy O'Neal is rightly well known for her kinetic, inventive hip hop dance with locust (read WW's review of their TBA performance this week) and with performance artist Reggie Watts, b...   More

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Small Metal Objects, by Australia's Back to Back Theater and playing through Saturday at TBA, is a bit of anomaly. There is no stage, for one...   More

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Even before the Gloved One's death, it had been planned: esteemed, talented local jazz pianist Ben Darwish was to inaugurate an Afrobeat Tribute to Michael Jackson for PICA's TBA Festival, making over MJ's works in the style of Fela Kuti, Afrobe...   More