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Philosophy Stories

Going Clear For Real

How I Grew Up Without Scientology “Do you see the table?” I nod yes. “Touch the table.” And I touch it. “Do you see the wall?” I nod yes. “Touch the wall.” And I touch it. I was a mute child at age five. The spell perhaps began to break there in that small auditing […]

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Profile

The International Reach of Local Artists at Portland Mercado Mural

Rachel Oleson and Pablo Solares Join Up in First Time Collaboration. A rainbow-colored fleet of brand-new food trucks has been parked in a row at a new parking lot on 72nd and Foster for the past several months. The new building on the same lot continues the bright color scheme, its exterior walls painted orange, […]

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Poems

Genesis I

  Shallow drags summon the fate of one more fag. Sulfur scented lightning flash queues the unmet tolerance of oxygen sacks. We lack a name for a famed feeling whose greeting startles us back. It pauses, healing, mulling over it’s epitaph. Genesis. Humble reincarnate, under unfolding guise and without name. Your Gemini guide the flame […]

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Stories

Tornadic Weather

The midwest throws neon colored food at us. We have something microscopic in our throats. The trees procreate with pink, twirling helicopters that Carmen decides magical. We go to to festival about a truce, called Truce Fest. We are trucing about colors of skin. You find a pair of earrings. Everything is pink here. We […]

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Dance

Louder When Beyond Words

At the Newmark Theatre in downtown Portland Thursday night, before the show got underway at Northwest Dance Project’s Louder than Words, Artistic Director Sarah Slipper and Executive Director Scott Lewis had announcements to make. Firstly, the troupe had just returned from two weeks in Germany, where they performed with “sold out shows and standing ovations.” […]