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Horizon at End Times

Linda Hagood – Episode 30

Join Linda Hagood for not just another Horizon at End Times, but the 30th. Her visit to Portland included a chat with me the day after performing at the Quiet Music Festival. She provides insight into the nature of love, energy, and our responsibility to be responsive to it. In my intro, I discuss the […]

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Festival Music Photography

Photo Set: Quiet Music Festival

The 5th Annual Quiet Music Festival came and went quietly, but not unnoticed. Things grew; audience attendance doubled from 2014, according to photographic memory (see last year’s review linked below), and the stage was much larger while seating appeared to expand as well. More people absorbed every pillow and rug to fill rows of seats […]

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Festival Music

It’s Oh So Quiet

Portland’s best kept secret this Friday and Saturday night is probably Quiet Music Festival. It boasts some heavyweight music headliners for two nights in a supremely intimate venue, at a price on the cheap. It even gets good press, but maybe only 50 people will be in the room at a given time, and a […]

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Philosophy Political Economy

On Being in Economics

Featured Image by Jax Ko A Philosophical Foundation for the Critique of Capitalism Everything in the world that is bought and sold using currency can be defined by its market in the economy. Every aspect of life is commodified for the marketplace, from drinking water to wiping our ass. How we sleep, what we eat, […]

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Film

Small Acquisitions Over Time Equal One Big Collection

Say goodbye to Cinema Project for the summer. Last weekend, their final frame for several months flickered in the musty upstairs event hall of the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) local office in the industrial-turning-leisurely inner southeast neighborhood. They hope that this marks their last event after two years of gypsy-like, ad-hoc presentation from unusual […]