Author Archives: pica-blogger

Radoslaw Rychcik/Stefan Zeromski Theatre: In the Solitude of Cotton Fields Posted by: Robert Tyree A few days ago, I saw this video of a Jay-Z concert with crazy amazing effects and it’s been in the back of my mind throughout … Continue reading →

Shirin Neshat Women Without Men Stephanie Snyder Hard Edge/Hard Work: Women and Abstraction Films at the NW Film Center Posted by: Ariana Jacob I’ve found that it is generally a bad idea to bring up feminism in public because most … Continue reading →

Tunnels & Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner posted by: Seth Nehil photo by: C. Lang There’s a new blossoming of absurdist psychedelic performance in Portland, a thing I hesitate to name. I like the hyper-collaboration of interconnected collectives – The … Continue reading →

Shirin Neshat Women Without Men NW Film Center/Whitsell Auditorium @PAM Tuesday, September 14, 2010 Posted by Eve Connell The final showing (of five) of Women Without Men, and the house was packed. Word certainly must have got out. The powerful … Continue reading →

Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Romeo & Juliet Radosław Rychcik/Stefan Zeromski Theatre, In the Solitude of Cotton Fields Posted By: Julie Hammond I really wanted to like the Nature Theater of Oklahoma show, if only because everyone around me seemed to … Continue reading →

Nature Theater of Oklahoma THE WORKS at Washington High School. posted by: dirtybombpdx God, I really wanted to like Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Romeo and Juliet, and for much of the time I did. The two performers were odd and … Continue reading →

The Wooster Group thru Saturday, Sept. 18, 4:30-8:30pm Burnish Hall, Portland Center for the Performing Arts posted by: dirtybombpdx Billed as an interactive 360 degree war film, the Wooster Group brings to Portland’s TBA fest an exhilarating distillation of their … Continue reading →

Noelle Stiles + Danielle Kelly, Blanket Maria Hasabi, SoloShow Posted By: Julie Hammond Space + Place. The first impressions could not have been more different. Walk into Blanket Space: a clean light room filled with brightly colored soft sculptures hanging … Continue reading →