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Environment Opinion

Nestling in with Cascade Locks City Administrators

Why all Oregonians should care about Nestlé’s plan with the water supply in Cascade Locks. Water is, of course, the most important raw material we have today in the world. It’s a question of whether we should privatize the normal water supply for the population, and there are two different opinions on the matter. The one opinion, […]

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Dance

T:BA 9/20 Miguel Gutierrez

Hopelessly lost on my bicycle, somewhere in the vicinity of OMSI and a confusing jumble of construction sites, I found the extremely poorly-labeled Hampton Opera Center just in time to be let in.  The stage was in the round.  Lit up luminous white and stark, with several blank screens set at  peculiar angles on the various sides.  […]

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Dance Festival Interdisciplinary

T:BA 9/14 Trajal Harrell | Critical Mascara

Biking in the crisp autumn from ne forty-second down to the river, across the Broadway bridge, to plunge into my first attempt to navigate the new bike lanes recently carved into the Pearl, I arrived at the performance of Trajel Harrell’s Made to Measure a bit sweaty.  Things becoming sweaty were to become a theme of the evening, as […]

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Festival Interdisciplinary

“Special Effect” | MHSR | E*rock

You may have noticed the ridiculous way I signed off on my introduction.  Particularly the sentence concerning the myriad identities and hats I wear at various times, for various people.  All of these things are true.  But was also meant as a parody of the descriptions contemporary art often uses to sell itself. In the saturated marketplace of […]

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Festival Interdisciplinary

D. Todd Dickerson Signing in to T:BA 2013

Greetings to the InterArts community, and whomever else may run across these words. My name’s D. Todd Dickerson, and I’ll be helping cover events at the 2013 Time-Based Art Festival. I’ve been an occasional T:BA attendant for years now, so it should be interesting approaching with a more critical lens. Look forward to musings and […]