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Festival Interdisciplinary

Her Desperate Prayer

Source Material offers Nini Julia Bang upon migration to Portland The Headwaters Theatre is not a large venue, but when you remove the seats it is obviously smaller. For A Thousand Tongues, just two and a half rows of chairs are set right onto the stage, angled to face the opposite corner. At most, twenty-five […]

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Comedy Photography

American Comedy Finds Itself at Holocene

Contributing Editor, Kathleen Dolan American Comedy is a free monthly showcase, currently running at Holocene, curated and hosted by Jason Traeger, Milan Patel, and Paul Schlesinger, featuring a mostly local line-up. It was started almost a year ago by Paul at the now defunct Kickstand Comedy (basement in Velo Cult Bike Shop). He soon brought in […]

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Love and Free Jazz

Snail Meets West is two lo-fi songwriters nodding to Ornette. On the album’s download page the credits read, “Recorded in loving memory of Ornette Coleman.” The legendary pioneer of “free jazz” died last year. The album is free improvisation, naturally, but the unlikely combo of piano and drums by Dan West and Azalia Snail, respectively, […]

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Talentless White Lady

New Download at Union Pole via Butte County Free Music Society. I’m in a band just like Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble, so watching Talentless White Lady (the Video pt 3] felt familiar. Some old freaks sitting around an apartment making low-level noise — six-pack of beer on the table, chips, and miscellaneous musical and atonal instruments strewn […]

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In The Center of It All

A Posthumous Review of Blackstar by David Bowie. On January 7th, the academic journal Nature published historic evidence that will push physicists in new directions concerning large-amplitude oscillations in black holes. These oscillations, the bright and massive energy flow of black hole V404 Cygni, were for the first time observed using ground telescopes. Black holes are […]