Arts & Culture
The Portland Canter for Public Humanities presents a lecture by guest speaker Jane Iwamura titled “Jedi Masters, Karate Kids and Kung Fu Pandas: Reimagining American Religions for a New Generation.” The lecture will take place Thursday, May 4, at 7 p.m. in Smith Memorial Student Union.
Let’s not split hairs here: Datsik is a heavy hitter of the most reviled genre on earth right now: dubstep. Although movie trailers have recently been filled with the stuff, the days of dubstep’s widespread mainstream integration seem long gone.
As the sunshine seeps into our city, the people of Portland are finally reemerging from the winter gloom. And there’s no better way to celebrate this fine weather than with a bright and colorful recipe!
Here is one stop sign you definitely don’t want to zoom past.
In her debut book, Stop Signs: Recognizing, Avoiding, and Escaping Abusive Relationships, Lynn Fairweather offers information and advice to women who are currently in or hoping to avoid abusive relationships and exposes the common noticeable attributes, tactics and deterrents of abusers.
Few first-time novelists have made a larger splash than Junot Diaz did with The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the Pulitzer Prize and received widespread critical acclaim and commercial success.
Anyone who’s seen, bought or worn pearls knows of their elegance and beauty. Although they lack the sparkling radiance of diamonds, pearls give the wearer an appearance of style and sophistication. But how did pearls come to mean what they do to us?
Being an intelligent college student, I’m sure you know that Genghis Khan conquered China’s Xin and Jin Dynasties in the 13th century. I’m sure you’re also criticizing me for oversimplifying the Mongol invasion of the landmasses currently known as China and Russia.
For hour after excruciating hour, Portland State art graduate student Sean Schumacher sits in his studio with pencil and paper listening to the annoying sound of a squeaky air shaft. Schumacher is working on his master’s thesis, an exhibition on the history of Las Vegas that will be on display at the PSU Art Building April 30 through May 9.
Maybe love has less to do with fate and more to do with coincidence. Love: Just a Coincidence (2011) is a Turkish film that explores the role of coincidence in the romance of two artists whose lives are intertwined by a string of random events.
Whoever originally thought of putting vegetables in cake was probably a little batty. But thankfully, there was some method in the baking madness.
The second floor of the Art Building has become the temporary home of Master of Fine Arts candidate Jessica Hickey’s graduate exhibition curiously titled >.
No, that’s not a typo. From Monday, April 30, through Wednesday, May 9, > will be on view in the Autzen Gallery. Hickey’s work, which has been in development for over a year, focuses on guardian weaving and what she calls “material propositions,” which include pieces made of cement, flour and other substances.