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Theatre

Family Ties and The Mariel Boatlift

Five men and one woman traveling from Cuba to Florida are stranded on a fishing boat aimlessly drifting off course after a troublesome storm. They are exiles from Cuba during the summer of 1980. Captain Rolando Conesa is rescuing estranged family members with his son, Roli. They are not aware that they have been set […]

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Report War & Peace

Deconstructing ISIL (Part 2)

The Arab Spring On the seventeenth day of December, 2010, in Tunisia, Mohamed Bouazizi lit himself aflame  after a lifetime of struggle with oppressive police conditions and poverty. Mohamed’s final act of life came outside the municipality building of Sidi Bouzid in protest to the confiscation of his street vending wares as well as his inability to talk […]

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Live Music

Live Recordings of Collin McKelvey and PDX Electronic Musicians

Four electronic music artists with varying backgrounds assembled at the Alice Coltrane Memorial Coliseum and Wazoo on October 4th, 2014. Headlining was Collin McKervey, and supporting was Soul Ipsum, Terror Apart, and Subdwarf. Collin McKelvey (aka ORBLESS) is on Soundcloud as @c-mck. He is a San Francisco based artist working with sound and video to […]

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Report War & Peace

Deconstructing ISIL (Part 1)

The New Face of War News about “The Islamic State” has been circulating widely since August 2014, when President Obama ordered a prolonged campaign of airstrikes in Iraq. The average news reader is baffled by them and the conflicts in Syria and Iraq as a whole. “Is America at war alone? Who is in this […]

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Horizon at End Times

Ben Kulp – Ep.21

Talking with Ben Kulp, a cross-disciplinary artist and programmer, whose basic structure for an automatic poetry application intrigued me enough to sit down for a chat exploring his unique path in life. His music is featured, a track called “The Robot’s Manifesto”. Hear and learn more at www.benkulp.com.