Songwriter and multi-disciplinary artist Danbert Nobacon talks with host Sean Ongley about anarchism, education, social integration, and the creative process involved with his new album, Stardust to Darwinstuff, released with his new studio band, The Axis of Dissent. Oh, we also get to hear about Chumbawamba here and there. Danbert plays "Revolution 9.01" live and …
I’m Having Bertucci Tremors
Lea Bertucci’s All That Is Solid Melts Into Air I lay awake at night listening to the scratchy strings of a post-post-modernist whose youth finds the profound in things that occupy physical space, and I’m worried that if I fall asleep then gremlins will come pouring out from beneath the bed. New York based talent …
Brightening the Noise
Simplicity marks the art, music, and life of Alejandro Ceballos After meeting Alejandro Ceballos, it took months to learn that he was a painter. I think he is one of these folks living dual lives, but not in a dishonest way, just quietly, un-showing of any real stress from raising children as a starving visual …
Portlanders Should Act Fast on Relocation Assistance
City ordinance to protect Portland renters could be dashed by association of landlords called Multifamily NW. Last week, dozens of dire Portlanders flocked to David Douglas High School for a free class focused on Portland’s new Tenant Relocation Assistance ordinance. Throughout the class, hands rose into the air from people that seemed desperate to vent …
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Water Signs
Father and Daughter and Water Dad nearly drowned in the mouth of the river at Fort Bragg, California, but that was before I was born. He spent the rest of the summer in the hospital, but that didn’t stop him from loving the ocean and water. You can’t trust it, he said, you can’t help …
The First Weirdo I Met in Oregon
Getting to know a friend through her art: A look at Mary Aday a.k.a Mefore Aday, THRU Gallery's Debut Art Exhibit When Mary Aday first moved to Portland from the South in 2005, a few of her new classmates at Oregon College of Art and Craft would ask her to repeat: Bright. White. Light. In …
Grasshoppers – Thrupoint Podcast Ep.2
Today we focus on the Grasshoppers program with Douglas Detrick and Nate Francis. Douglas is the Director of Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble, a working musician, and a really nice guy. Nate is a student musician, but also a working sideman himself, and has not yet graduated High School. The concert that this program culminates with …
Swimming While Drowning and the Life of LGBT Youth
Milagro presents the world premiere of a promising new play. Somewhere in Los Angeles, two male teenagers nearing eighteen years old are taking refuge in a shelter for LGBT youth. Angelo is a privileged Puerto Rican and aspiring poet; Mila is a calloused Mexican-African street punk. This is the premise of Swimming While Drowning, a …
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I’d Rather Not Talk About It
Holland Andrews and Chris Johnedis in an Improvised Concert Film The experimental drum and vocal duo, called I'd Rather Not Talk About It, closed out the 2016 Improvisation Summit of Portland, last summer. It was the end of another long weekend in which even big fans of weird music and their acute ears were beginning …