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Dance

At Least We All Eat Hummus

Last night, two performances were paired together for something that White Bird calls, New Israeli Voices in Dance, presented at Portland State University’s Lincoln Hall. It is part of their Uncaged program and runs through Saturday night. Both of these featured works are minimal in their stage and costume design, which I suspect makes the […]

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Film

The Forest and a Lonely Man

I knew there was going to be trouble within the first 10 minutes of Koinonia, an independent film directed by Andrew Finnigan and premiering at the Northwest Film Center March 19th. Koinonia begins well with delicate and ethereal imagery of lush, green forests, serene river streams, and abstract imagery of a bearded man and a […]

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Theatre

Global Politics and Questioning Moral Standards

A Review of The Invisible Hand  Truthfully, the world of economics and global politics have yet to become a genuine interest in my so far short life.  These subjects, for whatever reason, do not really piqued my curiosity in any sort of visceral or intellectual fashion, and could never be associated with my all-too-common response […]

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America Travel

Does Silicon Pave Over Gold? Part Two

Day 2 The morning of Sunday, February 22nd began with Kate and myself around 7 AM, waking up in our cozy double-mattress at Green Tortoise Hostel, and a somewhat rude awakening of club music outside, coming from the club across the street. It had been thumping until closing hours but resumed thumping at legal opening […]

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Stories Travel

Recollections From San Francisco: First Impressions Make a Rough Draft

What I recall now, a few weeks after a trip to San Francisco, is how quickly it went as a whole but how still the moments of the day seemed, as we walked without an itinerary up and down the hills of the city, drenched in uninterrupted sunlight. The four day-long vacation, respite, honeymoon, exploration, […]