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Film

A Cross-Media, Cross-Cultural, Free-form Cinema Extravaganza

Balikbayan #1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III screens on Friday, May 1st at 7 PM at the Whitsell Auditorium. Stories told through a logic of unrestrained chaos are often maddening and seemingly unnecessary experiences. Nothing alienates an audience further than the feeling that an artist is splashing paint on a wall; allowing “the powers that be,” […]

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Dance

The Blues Project Tapped the Last of White Bird’s Season

It was a dance-off last night at the Arlene Schnizter Concert Hall, or a tap-off, to be specific. The show starts with tappers merging from both sides of the stage, five on one side and four on the other, making the nine members of Dorrance Dance, a tap troupe from New York City. The sound mounted […]

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Horizon at End Times

Arrington De Dionyso – Ep.27

Old Time Relijun reunites after more than six years on May 1st in Portland at Mississippi Studios, and May 2nd in Olympia at Obsidian. Joining the Horizon @End Times podcast is their frontman and founder, Arrington De Dionyso, offering insights on the indie touring musician life, his alchemical formulation of artistic pursuits that first collided […]

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Environment Opinion

Fall of the Machine: Cars and Computers

On Earth Day last week, I celebrated the holiday by drenching myself in gasoline. My recent inheritance of a 1977 Volkswagen Dasher (nicknamed Rudy) has been keeping my hands dirty. On the day that environmentalists champion their cause and accomplishments, and highlight all the work on curbing climate change forthcoming, I found myself pulling fuel […]

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Literature and Spoken Word

Verselandia: On Their Terms

Representing High Schools Across The City, Twenty Students Performed Slam Poetry At Verselandia 2015. It is ten minutes until seven p.m. and MC Turiya Autry (artist, educator, facilitator, keynote speaker, lecturer, performer, poet, playwright, and all-around literary superhero) is telling us that coming here, to Newmark Theatre, on April 20, 2015, for Verselandia 2015!, was […]