Author Archives: pica-blogger

The Devil You Know is Better than the Devil You Don’t Zoe Scofield dances (and choreographs) with a kind of animal ferocity – a predatory determination. Her movements are clear, chopped, controlled and precise. She uses many of these terms … Continue reading →

This collection of 6 films (one scheduled film wasn’t shown) all had a theme of the artist turning the camera on themselves. The filmmakers were the subject of their own film. The program started out with a bang – Untitled … Continue reading →

After last year’s profoundly enjoyable/enjoying-ly profound Ballet Brut, I couldn’t wait to see what the OK Theater had ready for us this year. But “No Dice” is very, very different than what I expected. (In a wonderful, albeit difficult way.) … Continue reading →

The Great Gatsby is a funny book. I knew from reading and teaching this novel before that it has several funny moments, but I never quite realized just how comic it is until I saw Gatz, by Elevator Repair Service. … Continue reading →

I never found Stan Shellabarger. I learned enough about him to find the places where had had been doing his thing. Stan’s artwork is to methodically walk a set course in such a way that he leaves a trace of … Continue reading →

HERE: http://pica.radio.tablesturned.com/archive.html?pname=podcast.xml Those noontime chats are going straight to my iPod! Holler thanks to Portland Radio Authority (www.praradio.org) and Matt Kirkpatrick. –Carissa Wodehouse Blogger, member, enthusiast

Eight hours of my life gone. I will never have those eight hours back. I thought that I was only giving up seven hours. This is not how it played out. Yesterday, yesterday afternoon and yesterday evening I sat through … Continue reading →

Thank goodness for “like” and “as.” Without metaphors, I don’t think I’d be able to even begin describing the four performers from Japan. The vocabulary that I have developed over the years to describe art and performance was completely inadequate … Continue reading →

My favorite performance of the entire festival was Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company’s Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven. It was brilliantly written and accomplished what many plays cannot. It made the audience laugh, cry, question, wonder, and walk … Continue reading →

During every Saturday night shift at the bar I am currently employed at my fellow employees and regulars always ask me the routine question “What did you do today?” Usually I always have to respond with the mundane shopping, great … Continue reading →