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Raw Energy Unleashed

locust crushed Tuesday, September 8th 6:30 P.M. THE WORKS By Eve Connell Seattle scenesters, locust, performed their final of two shows last night. What a great way to not only propel us into the second half of the T:BA:09 festival, … Continue reading

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Powerful People, Indeed

Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People Last Meadow Monday, September 7th 8:30 P.M. Winningstad Theatre By Eve Connell The most powerful people I’ve witnessed unleashing their vast and supreme talents in the last week have actually had nothing to do … Continue reading

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Better Than YouTube and Reddit Together

Circles and Spinning Wheels and If I Could Crowd All My Souls into That Mountain By Jens Larson The video works in Melody Owen’s curated collections (Circles and Spinning Wheels and If I Could Crowd All My Souls into That … Continue reading

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Avant-garde Art and Obsolete Technology

Daniel Barrow, Everytime I See Your Picture I Cry By Jens Larson It’s safe to say that liking art and appreciating art are vastly different propositions, so while viewers may not “like” Daniel Barrow’s Every Time I See Your Picture … Continue reading

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We demand payment for making the world more interesting.

W.A.G.E. Lecture with A.L. Steiner Posted by: Benjamin Adrian Working Artists and the Greater Economy is an activist group seeking change in the way art institutions remunerate artists. Founding member A.L. Steiner began her lecture by reading excerpts from a … Continue reading

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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DON’T LEAVE ME

The Shipment, Young Jean Lee & Company seen on Friday Sept. 5th Posted by: Susan Ploetz As I walked home from watching the Shipment, I felt open and tender to everyone passing by me. I wanted to sit with the … Continue reading

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Crock

Crock Posted By: Carissa Wodehouse The film Crock marks a TBA first for me, a first anus. I’ve seen a dancer pee on stage, an impromptu testicle shaving, and a penis stuffed behind fishnets (Fleshtone, darn you, that one is … Continue reading

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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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