Arts & Culture
Last Saturday, the PSU Institute for Asian Studies and the Lan Su Chinese Garden’s First Saturday volunteer group teamed up once again for their monthly First Saturday East Asian Program Series, which brings in speakers for the community free of charge.
Cary Grant is Roger Thornhill, an ordinary, mid-century, New York City adman in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 classic North by Northwest. Thornhill has little on his mind but his career, his girlfriends and his bar tab: the perfect 1950s bachelor’s (well, divorcée’s) existence.
L’chaim! This month, the Northwest Film Center and the Institute of Judaic Studies celebrate 20 years of exhibiting and advancing Jewish history and culture with the Portland Jewish Film Festival.
Are religions, regardless of how they are practiced, actively hostile toward homosexuality? Or do the Old and New Testaments contain messages that transcend this common perception?
Now that The Artist has won Best Picture along with four additional Oscars, it appears that silent films are making a comeback.
This Thursday, the Northwest Film Center will screen a restored version of Fritz Lang’s dystopian sci-fi classic, Metropolis (1927). The screening will feature live scoring by the Alloy Orchestra, which will perform on synthesizers, junk percussion and traditional instruments.
Who says you need an entire band to put on a good concert?
Jeffrey Peyton, director of percussion studies at Portland State, will conduct the PSU Percussion Ensemble Thursday, April 12, in Lincoln Hall as part of the university’s 2011–12 Performance Attendance Recital Series.
The Tsugaru shamisen band Abeya will enliven the Portland State campus with a flood of intricate and exciting Japanese music this Thursday in the Lincoln Recital Hall. Abeya will perform on shamisen instruments accompanied by flutes, drums, singing and dancing.
We live in an age when haircuts and money supersede musical talent. Our country’s youth are enthralled by flashy imagery and the misguided conviction that the coolest people make the coolest music. It’s all too easy to get caught up in the hype-machine these days. How delightful is it, then, when a group of nascent jazz musicians burst onto the scene with incredible force and originality.
Sam Guerrero takes guy-time very seriously. An artist and teacher, Guerrero is completing his Master of Fine Arts in studio practice at Portland State with his upcoming exhibition, Stop Crying.
Homemade baked goods always kick store-bought boxed mixes out of the park. Quick and easy to make, these muffins are a great use for bananas that have become a tad too ripe to eat on their own. The crumb topping adds an extra crispy crunch that really makes these muffins sing.
The Portland State Department of Music is focusing on French music this year, and the Los Angeles-based Belden Piano Quartet is taking full advantage during its upcoming visit to Portland.