THRU Magazine ArchiveI studied writing and English at Purchase College in NY State and graduated from PSU with an English degree. I contribute content, edit, and brainstorm at THRU.
The idea that everything is impermanent lasts in the group art show at PICA, The Lasting Concept. The first piece of The Lasting Concept exhibit at PICA’s headquarters downtown is Bill Hayden’s and Sam Pulitzer’s “Street Side Dressing,” vinyl lettering on the front windows, reading “what’s up civilians?” and legible only to those looking up from […]
“The Left-Handed Woman” is an unlonely story of being alone. In a scene from the opening ten minutes of Peter Handke’s “The Left-Handed Woman,” Marianne picks up her husband, Bruno at the airport after a business trip. He gently bows into her at the top of the escalator and she supports his leaning body. In […]
Cinema Project gives a fair shake to short film in Space Time Being at PIFF. On Tuesday night at Whitsell Auditorium, Cinema Project and Northwest Film Center co-presented Short Cuts VII: Space Time Being for the 39th Annual Portland International Film Festival. Six short films, not one of them exceeding 25 minutes by directors from […]
Local Tide is charged by the memory of the physical being brought to you digitally. I am staying at a sublet and there is no wi-fi. There is no television. I sit in the living room, with the other temporary housemate, who I’ve only known a few weeks. Sometimes a record plays on low. We […]
In People Like You, the title story of Margaret Malone’s first book of short stories published late last year, a couple goes out to a party. It’s an ordinary night, they treat the party like an errand or at most, like a job interview for a position neither want. A page in, I relate to the reluctance Cheryl […]