Tues., April 10 My Boyfriend is a Bear Art Exhibit Sequential Art Gallery + Studio, 2 p.m. 328 NW Broadway, Apt. 113 Portland Artist Cat Farris celebrates the release of…
Brand new Viking Pavilion takes off
The Viking Pavilion, Portland State’s newest building, opened April 4. The 141,700 square foot venue, adjacent to the South Park Blocks between SW Hall and SW College Avenue, is designed…
The timeless tastelessness of Female Trouble
“Who wants to die for art?” Dawn Davenport (Divine) screams before shooting a willful volunteer to death in a packed nightclub theater. She’s just strangled her own daughter to death,…
When elephants fight: Understanding the conflict in Yemen
In 2011, a wave of uprisings spread through the Middle East as demonstrators protested against regimes with long-standing human rights violations, including political corruption, state violence, social inequality, high unemployment…
Nice girls don’t wear cha-cha heels
If you’re familiar with John Waters’ movies, you’re either a huge fan or are generally baffled by his continued popularity in the underground film circuit. I highly doubt that film…
March for Our Lives draws thousands of Portlanders
Thousands of individuals gathered at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 24 in the North Park Blocks in downtown Portland to march against gun violence and to support student activism following…
Viking Sports Snapshot March 11-18
Softball: Friday, March 16 Portland State vs Bryant University Score: 6-1 (W) PSU Vikings Alyssa Burk and Ashley Doyle turned heads playing against the Bryant Bulldogs. Burk threw a career-high…
Why we need another ‘race play’
Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis (The Motherf**ker with the Hat, The Get-Down) opened at Artists Repertory Theatre on Saturday, March 10. This production is only four years…
Gay strip club Silverado moving from downtown Portland
Silverado, the Pacific Northwest’s oldest male strip club, will vacate after ten years at its current downtown Portland location. According to a March 23 Facebook post, Silverado is seeking a…
Redefining Reality in ‘Blade Runner 2049’
Director Dennis Villeneuve’s 2017 film, Blade Runner: 2049, is the caliber of movie that must be viewed in an optimum-calibrated theater. Seeing it at Parkway North in January wasn’t the…
Portland bar owner publishes employee data online
Editor’s note: The screenshot obtained by Portland State Vanguard was already edited by another Facebook user to hide the employee’s SSN and address, but has since been edited to obscure…