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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

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The Melody Owen-curated Circles and Spinning Wheels film-short collection, showing at this year's TBA Festival, was borne of Owen's travels collecting image and film from around the world, but two of its early highlights were local. E*Rock's “Cherry” Ratatat video--Evan Mast of Ratatat is hi...   More

News Only once during all of the TBA fest's history have I seen anyone boo. "It's so self-indulgent," said the portly man in the striped shirt, at the end of the Maybe Forever performance. He'd furiou...   More

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If it looks triumphal, fine. Whatever the recent pop turn on their recordings, Lizzi Bougatsos and Gang Gang Dance—though a member shy from their last Portland show—remained every bit as much the factory of pounding, muddy ecstasis as ever when they kicked off PICA's ...   More

Books If you fall into the ocean wearing Nike Airs, the only thing they’ll find is your feet—perhaps along the oceanic garbage patch spanning from British Columbia to Baja, perhaps on one of Aus ...   More

Books It’s not exactly a paradox, but still. The sports that offer the least to the uninitiated spectator often inspire the best writing. This is true of baseball, and it is also true of boxing. For a ...   More

Books Scientists have become the deus ex machina of TV dramas. Today’s specialized fields have become so inaccessible to even the interested layman that the forensic scientists of CSI or the mathemati ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories No fusion-y adventurism, and no Pok-Pok-style japes at authenticity—it’s Thai food like you’re used to getting in America, but better. The beef is slow-cooked and juicy as any steakhouse steak—at its best in pad khing sod ($7 on the lunch menu). The viciously spicy yum nuor b   More

Food Reviews & Stories Look, I like your chi-chi avocado and pesto aioli and capicola sandwiches as much as the next guy, but sometimes you just want some old-school, East Coast, blue-collar seared beefsteak and cheese ($7.50), delivered on a roll by some dude who’s been at it for like 20 years. The kind of place wh   More