Arts & Culture
What do you think of when you think of ancient Egypt? Famous pharaohs and King Tut? There are many facts about one of the most mysterious regions of the world that are not as well known but just as significant.
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.
For some, the month of November brings thoughts of turkey dinners, Starbucks holiday cups and the realization that fall term at PSU is almost over. For the members at the Native American Student and Community Center, this month holds a different meaning.
For commuters who find themselves walking or using public transit on a regular basis, the sight of Portland’s many homeless can become numbing. Even the most compassionate person cannot stop to consider the life and context of every downtrodden soul they encounter. Inevitably, the gloomy specter of indifference surfaces.
It is all too common for bands to form out of sheer boredom, and that’s exactly what Crystal Castles used to sound like. Used to.
Back in 2008, Crystal Castles came under some intense fire in Canada for repurposing free, instrumental chiptunes tracks and having vocalist Alice Glass shriek over them.
What is it about films with religious overtones that makes them feel so exhausting? Last year, Terrence Malick inflicted upon the world his visually spectacular—and in every other way completely insufferable—The Tree of Life, which some people considered a masterpiece and I consider the cinematic equivalent of waterboarding.
While the corridors of Lincoln Hall are always filled with the sounds of musically inclined Portland State students, anyone who has heard a melody drifting through the halls or walked by a dedicated music major strumming her guitar outside on a sunny day knows that these musical snippets don’t quite deliver the full experience.
Beside the fact that both earn their meals selling words, Sarah Mirk and Carl Adamshick could hardly be more different. He’s from a small town in the Midwest; she’s from small town in Southern California. He writes poems; she writes news and nonfiction. Most striking, while Mirk has wanted to be a journalist since she was a little child, Adamshick didn’t read a book until he was 21.
Thanksgiving leftovers make for the most boss second meals of all time. But if you tire of the same old plate-piled-with-turkey in the days following Thanksgiving, give this Asian-inspired twist a try. These wontons and cranberry dip are easy to make, and you can mess with variations depending on what you have left over.
Walkers, biters, lurkers, herds—though this may sound like a description of AMC’s The Walking Dead, it can be more accurately ascribed to Black Friday shoppers.
Over the last two years, designer Alicia Wood has built a successful name for herself in Portland’s fashion scene.