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March 12Thursday night’s bill at Holocene featured a West coast roll call, with U.S.F. (Universal Studios Florida) of Seattle—though it seemed they were unable to perform—and Tracey Trance of Olympia. The unifying force in the lineup, however, was the debut, self-titled LP release of Portland’s Chrome Wings…- March 12Things to do in and around portland this week
March 12This week, Andrew Merriam’s (’10) ceramic art installation, “The Ends of the Earth,” made its debut, lining the first-floor hall of Miller. The artist sat down with the Pioneer Log to answer some questions about the piece…- April 30NORTHWEST STRING SUMMIT
April 30Barber of Seville
April 30OPEN STUDIO AT BOATSPACE
April 23We all know the story of Othello, whether we’ve read William Shakespeare’s play or not…
April 23Electronic Music Concert this Monday
April 23After a whirlwind of touring at SXSW and Coachella, the XX paid their loyal fans here in Portland a visit…
- April 16The Bridgetown Comedy festival starts next Thursday…
- April 16Friday evening’s show at the Doug Fir would have been the perfect opportunity to record a live album…
April 16It was long enough for there to be three intermissions and I still didn’t want it to end…
April 16The underground hip-hop duo Dead Prez hits the Portland stage April 22 at Berbati’s Pan on SW Ankeny in downtown Portland…- March 12French department unveils new play Ubu Roi.
- March 5Imagine letting Lewis Carroll and Tim Burton sit down for tea and plan a cinematic event. Add a Disney-sized budget, epic graphic animation, and some brave writers, and you have the new Alice in Wonderland, which opened in wide release today…
March 5This is a super freaking creepy photograph of Ben Bateman…
March 5Murder. Mystery. Hot foreign chicks, ubiquitous cigarettes, train accidents and endless plotting. The 39 Steps is a proper spy thriller, blazing cliches and glory…- March 5Set in a dystopian not-too-distant future where designer organs are the latest status symbol and late payments warrant a visit from a corporate repo man, Repo: The Genetic Opera is the cult film of the 21st century…
March 5Yiddish play Vilna’s Got a Golem is like a matrioshka doll—Russian dolls that house increasingly smaller ones inside. In the play, a character named Zavel writes another play mirroring his own life of persecution in Vilna, Lithuania in 1899…
March 5Documentary explores poet’s conscientous objection to WWII through work and journals…- February 26However much credit you give so-called “world music,” you might be surprised to hear any of the songs off of Taken By Trees’ most recent album, East of Eden…
- February 26Imagine what it would sound like if Louie Armstrong got a whole lot funkier, but kept his soulful thump…
Blurring fantasy and reality, Oregon Ballet Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream opens tomorrow nightFebruary 26Artistic Director Christopher Stowell keys the Pioneer Log in to the complexities and effort needed for his telling of the classic tale…- February 26There are several thousand ways to inject magic into waking life. Cy Twombly, American painter, does it with his mark in his current exhibition at the Portland Art Museum.
February 26Photo of the Week with Sam Margevicius
February 19Monday night, audience and poets alike left the Trail Room slurring sensual sounds sparked with inspiration from the Apocalips National Qualifying Slam…- February 19Complete with dogs, dancing and enough hilarious stereotypes to make even the most egalitarian viewers laugh, Legally Blonde: The Musical is truly “an Elle of a show.”…
- February 19Jonathan Coulton’s songs, which include themes such as evil geniuses, robot overlords and IKEA, have been described as continuing the tradition of comedic musicians Tom Lehrer and “Weird Al” Yankovic. The Pioneer Log spoke with Jonathan Coulton about his upcoming tour, his fan base of nerds, and his next steps to fame…
- February 19The 33rd Portland International Film Festival is going strong, through February 27. Here’s another taste for all the cinephiles out there. See nwfilm.org for more information…
February 12The one-man rage machine that is Bassnectar kept the crowd wobbling with his down and dirty, bass-gasmic electronic music. Mashing up everything from Three 6 Mafia to Imogen-Heap, the San Francisco native played for three hours straight, turning the Roseland into a gigantic, bass-filled sauna. Anyone there who didn’t happen to be on some sort of illicit chemical still got super high off of the huge sound-system Bassnectar tours with.
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