Author: RaChelle Schmidt

On Saturday, April 13, the Korean Student Association will host its annual Korea Night celebration, an evening when members of the Korean community and the community at large can get together to share and learn about Korean culture.

On the sun porch, amid the discarded debris of empty boxes, Christmas wreaths and luggage brought in but never brought out, Weller and Fosnia, neighbors at the “home for the aged,” meet for the first time, each seeking refuge from a visitor’s day that doesn’t include them. They strike up a game of gin—and an unlikely friendship.

When Mervyn Dymally passed away last October, he left behind an amazing legacy in his home state of California. Dymally was a groundbreaking politician who served in the California State Assembly (twice—once in the ’60s and once in the 2000s), the California State Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, and as the Lieutenant Governor of California; he was the first African-American elected to statewide office in California.

Gothic halls and stained glass may not be your idea of a killer Friday night out, but when’s the last time you got to drink beer in church? This Friday, the eighth annual Works: An Arts Happening will be taking place at The Old Church in downtown Portland.

Miracle Theater’s production of La Celestina opened last Friday to a sold-out house and an overwhelmingly positive reaction from the crowd. The mood was festive and excited as the audience settled in to watch the poetic, romantic, often-hilarious but ultimately heartbreaking story of a young nobleman, Calisto, who falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy family, Melibea.

Would you be willing to have your deepest, darkest secret acted out on stage? What if the secret played out anonymously? Would you be able to watch? Portland State alumnus Devin Harkness is hoping that you can—and will.

If you are looking to get in and out of the cold while enjoying some exciting theater this term, you will want to check out what is going on in Portland State’s Department of Theatre
and Film.

The Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra is kicking off this year’s holiday season in a festive way with its concert, “A Holiday Gift of Music,” at the Good Shepherd Community Church in Boring. This musical event promises to be a uniquely entertaining and joyful celebration of the holidays.

If you are a student who is also raising a child, you know how hard it is to find time to relax while juggling school, homework, a job and family time. It can make you crazy and leave you too exhausted to think about something as seemingly silly as actually enjoying yourself.

A college student’s guide to a great Halloween party There is a lot of work involved in throwing a party: You have to plan the guest list, the food, the…

“It helps us as world citizens to understand that these non-Western philosophies are alive with these ideas that change and shift and debate are not alien,” said Sharon Carstens, director of the Portland State Institute for Asian Studies and professor of anthropology and international studies at PSU.