Arts & Culture
This Mediterranean chicken recipe is warm and filling, perfect for any rainy Portland night. Its flavors are rich and make for a great way to impress your guests. And the best part is that the ingredients are cheap but the finished product tastes like a five star meal.
The New York Voices, one of the finest quartets of jazz vocalists in the world, will be performing Sounds of the 60s & 70s at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall this weekend. The Oregon Symphony, conducted by Jeff Tyzik, will accompany them.
The Portland State department of theater and film will launch its 2011–12 season Thursday with the play Sight Unseen, directed by master’s candidate Kristin Heller.
The play, written by Donald Margulies, follows expressionist artist Jonathon Waxman at the peak of his career. He travels to London for a national gallery opening after losing his father just as he is about to become a father himself. Feeling that something is missing in his life, he visits a former lover, Patricia, his first muse in college.
The Northwest Film Center will celebrate the final weekend of its 29th annual Reel Music Festival with three days of music documentaries, including Keirda Bahruth’s 2011 documentary Bob and the Monster.
Bahruth’s film chronicles the life of Bob Forrest, erstwhile rock star and current drug treatment counselor. Some may know him as the lyrically brilliant, oft-intoxicated front man of Los Angeles “drunk-rock” group Thelonious Monster. Others will remember him as the longhaired, bespectacled addiction specialist on VH1’s Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.
When we think of science fairs, we often picture a bunch of retainer-mouthed middle schoolers, each with a giant poster board explaining why oil and water don’t mix or how to fashion a mini-volcano from baking soda and vinegar.
We tend not to picture balls of lightning in a bucket, a teenager who spent two years making a nuclear fusion reactor in his garage or millions of dollars in scholarship money.
Make no mistake: Americans love their chocolate. Projected by the United States Census Bureau to reach $18 billion this year in sales, it’s a commodity on the rise.
And with the increasing popularity of organic farming, fair trade and other sustainability-minded practices, shouldn’t many consumers pay closer attention to where the fondest of confections comes from?
Breakfast reigns as the hands-down most important meal of the day. With the potential to be sweet, savory, succulent and everything in between, there are endless ways to stuff your face as the sun rises.
Say goodbye to vintage brick buildings and hello to metal and glass.
The Portland State department of architecture is currently presenting a lecture series called “Firsts,” wherein scholars share their most innovative ideas and breakthroughs with students and the public. In so doing, they widen the conversation about architectural possibilities here in Portland.
Portland’s literary icon is at it again. This month, Chuck Palahniuk will publish his latest novel, a twisted retelling of Dante’s Inferno, titled Damned.
Scheduled for release Oct. 18, Palahniuk’s 14th novel tells the story of an 11-year-old girl named Madison who is left alone and abandoned at a Swiss boarding school.
Filmmakers Rod Pitman and Stephen Chaffin, two Portland State undergraduates, have sought to capture America’s pro-Marijuana movement in the documentaries Hempsters: Plant the Seed and NORML Life.
The films received worldwide distribution by Cinema Libre within six weeks of each other and feature stars like Woody Harrelson, Willie Nelson, Ralph Nader and members of The Doors.
Over two hundred tattoo artists gathered in the Portland Metropolitan Expo Center last weekend to showcase their array of goods and services, from supplies for the practicing tattoo artist to shirts and artwork for the casual visitor.