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DramaWatch: All you need to do is … act appropriately
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “Appropriate” spins the word through all of its many meanings, cultural, racial, and personal. Plus openings and closings.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “Appropriate” spins the word through all of its many meanings, cultural, racial, and personal. Plus openings and closings.
Soothing experimental music; distressing black metal; heartfelt folk-pop; nasty, brutish, and short punk rock.
A few seats remain for this historic concert. If you can’t make it to The Schnitz on Saturday, listen on the radio.
Legendary but long dormant Oregon music showcase returns with a new vision and a new venue.
Two beautifully performed films – one with child actors, one about old age – defy the ordinary in welcome ways. Plus, streaming picks.
Former Yeasayer member’s solo act arrives at Holocene.
What’s up with the film center’s relationship with the Portland Art Museum and its sharp but uncertain shift in direction? It’s complicated – and not everyone’s happy about that.
The unauthorized exhibition debuts in Portland and is slated for a multi-city run. Banksy’s relationship to the art is as murky as the role of the show’s organizers.
A Brazilian artist’s overlapping visions of the natural and unnatural reflect the realities of the battles over Roe v. Wade and the future of liberal democracy.
May’s art offerings tackle everything from hopscotch to plant-made music to Antarctica. Lindsay Costello has the scoop on what to see this month.
An interview with the classical guitarist about her upcoming Spanish-inflected concert and masterclass.
Broadway Books throws a party, a traveling bookstore stops in Portland, and writers Karl Marlantes, Shawn Levy, Emily St. John Mandel, and Peter Rock talk books.
A month to focus on Asian American culture, Betty LaDuke in Grants Pass and Lillian Pitt in Newport, PassinArt and Center Stage party down, legislators join the Cultural Trust.
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