Arts & Culture
“He didn’t know anything about Japan before he came to PSU,” Portland State professor Ken Ruoff said of his former student, Gabe Rosen. “He started taking Japanese studies [classes] and became fascinated with Japan and Japanese cooking. His long-term dream of opening a restaurant would transform into a dream to open a Japanese-style restaurant.”
On paper, social justice’s definition is simple: “the distribution of advantages and disadvantages within a society.” In the real world, social justice takes on many different forms and philosophies.
When I first fired up Sacred Citadel I wasn’t expecting very much. Brawlers (think Streets of Rage or Final Fight) have been in a nostalgia-chasing funk lately, and at most I expected button-mashing and streams of enemies that explode into torrents of regenerative raw vegetables and whole, cooked fowl.
This hearty vegetarian dish is a deliciously spiced and inexpensive dinner. Butternut squash is low in fat, high in fiber and filled with potassium and B vitamins, making this one seriously heart-healthy recipe.
Americans are usually familiar with a scant few film directors, and fewer still foreign film directors. Claire Denis is not usually among them. Despite being an ocean away, Denis’ work has a lot to say about Western culture and colonialism that could just as easily be applied to this side of the Atlantic.
“He did not stay silent,” said Jon Holt, a Portland State assistant professor of Japanese literature, referring to Maekawa Samio, the Japanese poet whom the government tried to silence during Japan’s involvement in World War II, known there as the Great Asian War.
In honor of Snoop Lion’s new album Reincarnated, I am going to tell you a story. It was 1999, the summer between seventh and eighth grade, the night my friend and I snuck out of our motel room on a family trip to Tennessee.
A few days ago, the lineup for the 2013 Cannes Film Festival was announced. It features two films by Roman Polanski: his latest, a French-language adaptation of the play Venus in Fur starring his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, in the lead role; and Weekend of a Champion, a previously unseen documentary about a Formula One racer made in 1972.
Which was better, the book or the film? This question has plagued moviegoers and bookworms ever since early filmmakers began adapting classic books for the screen.
Poetry and prose will join at Portland State next week, with published writers both local and national reading their work. The university’s creative writing program will host the readings as part of its ongoing Visiting Writers Readings series.
Lately there’s been more sound than usual coming from the basement headquarters of KPSU—namely, the preparation for a complete overhaul of the station.