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Writer Jon Raymond's 20-Year Portrait of the Portland Art Scene

Jon Raymond is an art critic the same way a novelist is a critic of humans—a keen and often cold-eyed observer who manages to use his subjects for purposes other than their own. Raymond is probably best known to Portlanders for his fiction (The Half-Life, Livability) or the works he’s written for the screen (Todd … Continue reading Writer Jon Raymond’s 20-Year Portrait of the Portland Art Scene

Morphing From Moxie

Briley Neugebauer and her fellow dancers at Moxie Contemporary Ballet had a great gig at Portland’s newest, body-positive ballet—until the company suddenly shut down

In Search of the Miraculous

Can you still consider yourself an artist if you no longer make art? This is a question at the heart of I Want to Destroy You, Theatre Vertigo’s thought-provoking world premiere

The Lady in the Van

If every homeless person were as endearingly crotchety as Dame Maggie Smith in The Lady in the Van, we’d all let transients live in our driveways

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