Arts & Culture
They were the first female fighting force to serve in direct combat for the U.S. military: Team Lioness, a support unit stationed in Iraq. Their contributions to the war effort have been all but anonymous. Until now.
Freud famously said that perverts succeed in realizing what hysterics only fantasize about. Imago Theatre’s superb staging of Yukio Mishima’s The Black Lizard is full of the perverse and the hysterical. The classic tropes of the hard-boiled detective procedural are employed brilliantly in this sexy, surrealistic noir thriller.
Quincy Newell, an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Wyoming, will discuss the history and practices of early Latter-day Saints Thursday in a workshop at Portland State titled “‘Is There No Blessing for Me?” Jane James’s Construction of Space in Latter-day Saint History and Practice.’”
Why does U.S. culture revere its celebrities? What role does mass media play in how we as a society structure our daily lives?
New York-based architect and video artist Paul Pfeiffer will seek to answer these questions in his Thursday lecture, the last installment of the Portland State Department of Architecture’s Firsts series. Pfeiffer will discuss his past and recent works as well as his works-in-progress while inviting intellectual discussion about the nature of “perspective.”
“It’s exciting to make things and see them come to life on a national or global scale,” said graphic designer Max Erdenberger, who will give a free lecture at Portland State Thursday in the Art Building.
Zach Hill has his fingers in lots of stuff: Hella, Goon Moon, Team Sleep, Crom-Tech, et al. Every time he tries his hand at a different music style, it becomes relegated to the scope of the “musician follower,” the most esoteric kind of music fan.
The sixth annual Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival will be held this Thursday through Sunday at the McMenamins Kennedy School Theater. The festival will include 11 films that celebrate queer identity and culture while exploring the historical and contemporary challenges of the LGBTQ community.
Just in time for sunny park picnics, this chicken salad is the perfect cool lunch for warm afternoons. The succulent cantaloupe halves and grapes add a sweet and delicious punch to traditional chicken salad, while sliced almonds bring a snappy crunch to the mix. It’s a quick dish that can be made well beforehand and stored in your fridge until lunchtime.
Something new has taken over the second floors of both the Smith Memorial Student Union and the Academic and Student Rec Center that shows how Portland State students take their education out into the community.
We tend to think of enjoying art as an experience that involves simply looking at things: at a painting that hangs on a museum wall, perhaps, or a statue in a park.
But Mary Jane Jacob, a professor and executive director of the Art Institute of Chicago’s exhibition program, argues that art involves so much more than this.
To write about Funny Games is to give it away, but write I must. The name Michael Haneke may clue you in to the fact that what you are about to watch is neither straightforward nor simple.