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Records

Blood & Glass

The Visual and Visceral Snow by Virgin Blood Virgin Blood is a moniker for artist Felisha Ledesma, and she performs Wednesday at Turn Turn Turn, alongside The Dead White, as part of Creative Music Guild’s Outset Series. Her most recent album, Snow, was released in February 2014, which has been called “cathartic and minimal.” Snow begins with contradictory energy as it cuts […]

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Live Music

Doug Haning & Friends Live 04.24.14

This collection of live recordings were performed improvisational at the Waypost in Portland, Oregon, on the twenty-fourth night of April, 2014. Doug Haning performs piano and curated the musicians. Jon Shaw, bass Carson Halley, drums Nate Lumbard, Saxophones Chris Kennedy, trumpet Michael Vlatkovich, trombone Doug is becoming an historic performer of improvised music in Portland […]

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Hands Up Submit

Breathe For Justice

Publisher’s Note: The creative expression below is to be interpreted in the area of slam poetry because the writer improvises from her emotional instinct. As a protester, the writer offers a serious look in to the perspective of the movement, the essential demands of it, and the undercurrent. Submitted by Bette Lee Those damn cops […]

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Dance

A Dream of Blood and Soil

Bodyland by Oded Graf & Yossi Berg A man awakens within himself like a child in awe and moves on to do wondrous things in his reality rediscovered. What at first appears to be total experience becomes a game when imbued with the life of others, blood and soil. As this wonder externalizes and the […]

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Festival Literature and Spoken Word

Poetry is the New Black

Poetry Press Week 2014 at Disjecta Imagine a small, dark stage. In the center, there is a child’s bed and floor lamp. Two screens serve as the backdrop. On one, a black and white sky of furiously undulating clouds is projected, looking like the turbulent water of two whirlpools at odds, swirling in two directions. […]