THRU Magazine Archive
Admittedly, I’m not as familiar with Shakespeare as I’d prefer to be. Despite having taken a class on his work in my senior year of high school, my knowledge and recollection of it have escaped me similar to that of my Spanish. Three years studied, six years unpracticed and I can barely construct a paragraph […]
Siren Nation and Soul’d Out Music Festival Present A Tribute to Billie Holiday “Billie Holiday always sang from the heart,” said Natasha Kmeto, Portland-based singer, song-writer and electronic music producer, on stage at the Alberta Rose Theater on Saturday night. Standing behind her open laptop, one hand on the mic, she punched a few things […]
Cinema Project Presents “Horrorism For Beginners”: Select Films by Berlin-Based Filmmakers, Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonzalez, a.k.a. OJOBOCA Last night, I thought I would have wild, fantastically visual dreams. The kind that you instantly recall upon waking up for the vivid hallucinatory quality they had; images from childhood, of yourself, imposed on textured recollections […]
Kicking off a medium-sized soul music festival on a Tuesday night is a risky move, but pairing Charles Bradley with a young progressive jazz outfit is a smart move. It gave Soul’d Out a big feeling, the biggest in fact: the feeling of love. Any night of the week is perfect for love; that is […]
Hep Hep Sweet Sweet is the opening piece of three, for the Urban Bush Women, a Brooklyn, New York-based dance company, celebrating its 30th Anniversary at the Newmark Theatre in downtown Portland, presented by White Bird. It begins in a lively mood, “Parker’s Mood” in fact, by Charlie Parker, with everyone costumed in fantastic sequined […]