Category Archives: Art

This year’s TBA began with quiet, with calm, with a gathering of Portlanders at Pioneer Square. It was peaceful. When I arrived, the square was filled, a low murmur rising from the young families and artists who were sitting, for … Continue reading →

According to the TBA book, a number of TBAers should have received / will receive postcards as part of Ryan WIlson Paulsen’s project “I’m Searching Too.” I’ve been giddily checking my mailbox each week, but nothing has turned up. Has … Continue reading →

T:BA:07 Day Five – Monday, 10 September 2007 I love yoga. Have I mentioned that? I LOVE YOGA!!! I started about a year ago. I was dating this woman that I met at Burningman, whom is a yoga teacher, and … Continue reading →

Normal and Happy is very difficult to sum up, not only because of the proliferation of characters and scenes, but also because of their general and basic morphability. These bodies in contact are wrestling, making love, becoming insect, struggling, dominating, … Continue reading →

The protean Taylor Mac, fabulously clad in an ever-shifting array of clothes, sings and talks his way into our hearts. By turns hilarious and poignant, Taylor takes us through the politics of the war on terror, dating in the twenty-first … Continue reading →

For Marc Bamuthi Joseph, KRS-One is Sophocles, is folklore. The rapper and MC helped inspire a culture, a set of stories linking people together. Similarly, Joseph shares personal stories with African American histories, weaving slavery and tap dancing, race and … Continue reading →

So out with it: I missed the boat reserving the opportunity to have a kid cut my hair for Mammalian Diving Reflexes, “Haircuts by Children.” Whoops. So on Saturday morning, when I was hanging around hoping for a cancellation, I … Continue reading →

I thought Liz Haley’s performance piece, Polygraph, in the Gerding Theatre (the old Armory), would take place on stage in front of an audience. Instead, she sits in a small room, connected to the lie detector, waiting for a one-on-one … Continue reading →

As I waited for my 2:30pm haircut appointment, I bought a fifty cent cup of lemonade from the kids next to Rudy’s Barbershop on NW 13th at Davis. It tasted bitter and quenched the summer heat. A woman walked by … Continue reading →

Reggie Watt’s method is to sample a bunch of popular entertainment and riff on them hip hop style. He uses the mediums of pop culture to make fun of it. And by making fun I mean he makes it funny … Continue reading →