Arts & Culture
Portland State’s Master of Fine Arts program has a real treat in store for its Visiting Artist Lecture Series this week: Internationally renowned artist Olaf Breuning will pay the university a rare visit and premiere his latest film, Home 3.
The Kerry Politzer Quartet will play original and classic pieces as part of the Performance Attendance Recital Series held at Lincoln Recital Hall Thursday, May 31, at noon. New York jazz man George Colligan will perform with them as a guest artist.
Mao Zedong remains one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century.
While his leadership unified China under Communist rule with the defeat of the Nationalist armies of Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, Mao is also remembered in the West as a man whose harsh rule killed millions upon millions of people.
Some students pen scripts, others play characters, and then there are the directors, who make sure the stagecraft goes smoothly.
The 25 students enrolled in the New Script Development Workshop course—taught by Professor Karin Magaldi, chair of the Department of Theatre and Film—spent fall and winter term developing their skills for this term’s New Works Reading Series, the final installment of which will be held Monday, June 4, in Lincoln Hall.
Even the most apathetic media consumer has probably heard something about a conflict in the Middle East between Israelis and Palestinians. The phrase “Peace in the Middle East!” was on the lips of just about every rapper in the U.S 10 years ago.
Abbas Kiarostami’s Ten (2002) opens with a confrontation between mother and son. Amin is furious with his mother, a beautiful, animated taxi driver who struggles to find happiness in a society that she believes denies women the right to live.
I’m not sure why, but whenever any artist from Portland puts out a much-hyped, slickly produced electronic record, I automatically assume it won’t be any good.
It’s not to the discredit of Portland’s artistic community. Indie rock? Sure. Neofolk? Yes. Electronic? Not so much.
An offshoot of Godwin’s Law (it might have been his brother who said it) has it that any metal band, if analyzed thoroughly, will eventually be likened to early-’70s Black Sabbath. You know: that bombastic faux-evil that sounded legitimately terrifying 40 years ago.
Making a huge batch of fresh guacamole can get pricey real fast when using avocados. Avoid the perpetual battle of trying to determine whether an avocado is tenderly ripe or has been overly handled with this recipe!
For many of the students in Portland State’s Department of Theatre and Film, this week’s performance of Caryl Churchill’s Fen will be their final time onstage together. Though they are bracing for an emotional conclusion, the cast expects a production that will be a fitting farewell to their college experience.
Portland State communications senior Breanna Webb now has enough money to buy 240.8 vowels.
Webb recently participated in Wheel of Fortune’s “College Week,” which was shot at Portland’s Oregon Convention Center. The episode, which aired Monday, May 14, featured Webb walking away as the show’s winner—with $60,200 in cash.