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Talking on the Lawn

Labor Day Picnic Posted By: Julie Hammond My too-cafinated heart was still racing when I pulled up to the lawn outside Washington Monroe High School, picnic basket in hand and lawn chair slung over my shoulder. The brief moment of … Continue reading

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TBA’s Picnic in the Park

Planted! A Labor Day Picnic with Slow Food Portland Monday, September 7th 12:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. THE WORKS at Washington High School By Eve Connell Barely coming down off my It Might Get Loud high Monday afternoon, I arrived … Continue reading

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Some Rainy Day Magic – Mild Intro to an Explosion of Sound and Form

Sunday, September 6th 6:30 PDX Contemporary Younger – Ethan Rose, Laura Gibson, Ryan Jeffery 10:30 PM The WORKS C.L.U.E. Live – robbinschilds/Kinski Some Rainy Day Magic – Mild Intro to an Explosion of Sound and Form By Eve Connell The … Continue reading

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Crushed With Joy

Locust Crushed Crushed With Joy To the sounds of a beat-box, locusts emerge and dance around on the ground before being crushed by a man’s unseeing boot. And then the dancers emerge, rising from the floor, hips swaying, shoulders and … Continue reading

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locust: It’s Fucking Awesome Being Green

locust / crushed Posted by Jim Withington Just saw locust’s show and it left me that kind of joyous “HELL yeah!” feeling that I’ve been wanting during TBA this year. The festival has had heavy covered, maybe more than ever, … Continue reading

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“We knew we weren’t going to change the world, but history required, shall we say, a certain petulance.” – Prof. Jules Schmeese

Crock: The Motion Picture Posted by: Benjamin Adrian Before seeing Crock, I wondered why it was in tba. It basically looked like maybe it would be interesting, but certainly not anything more than a relic of 1996 Portland Cable Access. … Continue reading

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Corpogeographies and Utopian Sites

C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience), robbinschilds posted by: Jenevive Tatiana The movement language and collaborative dynamics that span the multiple iterations of the projects of robbinschilds are almost painterly in nature. The radical relationality of color is echoed in their … Continue reading

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Meg Stuart and Philipp Gehrmacher jerk through strobe lights backwards

I liked the waltzes, but my girl likes the twist.
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I just want you to cleanup after yourself

On Sight Salon – National Park Artist-in-Residence Fawn Krieger and Visual Art Program Director Kristan Kennedy I just want you to cleanup after yourself a Parent teaches a child a Park Ranger reprimands a visitor Americans ask it of our … Continue reading

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The Truth Is Out There

Robert Boyd, 09.06.09 Posted by: Jim Radosta It’s a good thing Robert Boyd isn’t a member of the Obama administration, or he’d probably be out of a job. Conspiracy Theory–the interdisciplinary artist’s two-channel video installation on display through Oct. 24 … Continue reading

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