Allie X, Sugarpill and She slay at Star Theater, mama I’m feeling old as I wait in line on a Thursday night outside the Star Theater for Allie X’s concert….
Solar eclipse of the heart playlist
Total Eclipse of the Black Hole Sun I live for excuses for a Bonnie Tyler song. She is, after all, like a karaoke cheat code, and on Monday, Aug. 21,…
Solve for Why: Allie X’s Technology, Identity-Influenced Art Pop
It’s been three years since Beyoncé performed behind the word FEMINIST in larger-than-life lights. It’s been five years since 2011 was declared “the year of the woman” across entertainment media….
All for arts and Arts for All
You haven’t heard about Arts for All, have you? It’s simple: Arts for All is a program sponsored by the Portland-area Regional Arts & Culture Council, started in 2011 to…
Intergenerational femme-punks: Blondie, Garbage at McMenamins Edgefield
Waiting in rush hour traffic gives me ample time to replay Blondie and Garbage’s new albums: Pollinator (2017) and Strange Little Birds (2016). The former is a series of collaborations…
Northwest Film Center’s summer of classics
Missed the Constructing Identity series? Northwest Film Center is showing a ton of great movies all summer long. David Lynch: A Retrospective They’re playing every damn David Lynch movie this…
Cheers and jeers pay the same at Corey Feldman show
In the realm of a gritty director breathing new lives into their acting careers, Corey Feldman seems closer to the spectrum of Danny Bonaduce and Lindsay Lohan than Robert Downey,…
Corey Harper’s Homecoming Show Feels Like a House Party
Being at Mississippi Studios this Wednesday night in May is like exploring a parallel universe of what life would have been like if I had gone to the same high…
Your guide to Portland LGBTQ+ Pride Weekend 2017
Portland Pride What a time to be queer and alive. Even though we had a pretty awesome almost-decade-long streak of federally recognized LGBTQ+ Pride Months, hallmarks of that era are…
Looking back at ‘Rock of Love,’ and other stuff Google told us about Bret Michaels
To celebrate Poison and Tesla opening for Def Leppard tonight, our Online Editor, an obsessive fan of mid-aughts VH1 programming, gives you the ultimate queer guide to Poison frontman Bret…
Corey Harper is post-Portlandia on the national stage
Corey Harper does not immediately strike me as a folk musician, but after speaking with him, I see where and why he deserves the classification and his early critical buzz….