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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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Visual

Who Is She?

“Alien She” exhibits the Riot Grrrl movement though art and identity creation. Forward by Kathleen Dolan The lyrics of the song “Alien She” by Bikini Kill go like this: She is me I am her She is me I am her siamese twin connected at the cunt Heart brain heart brain heart brain lung gut […]

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Theatre

ALL THAT I TAKE FOR GRANTED

The Miracle Worker reminds one of the gift of consciousness. Spoiler Caution: the following review assumes you are totally familiar with this classic play from 1960, as it is depicted in the 1962 film, or from television, and the ending is discussed. Helen Keller’s story will always strike awe in hearts and minds. Everyone’s takeaway […]

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Dance

High School Dance

Northwest Dance Project is Young Again, on the East Side. For fans of the company, the annual winter show, In Good Company, is looked forward to, all year round. Their new inner east side neighborhood venue, Revolution Hall, inside Washington High School, reconnects them to their old friends at Mississippi Studios, both owned by Good […]