Author Archives: pica-blogger

You probably know that TBA is being podcast (if you read page 144 of the booklet) but you may not know where to find the goods. Well, here is your link: http://radio.tablesturned.com/rss-raw/P/PI/PICA/46.xml I’m listening to the Portland Cello Project performance … Continue reading →

T:BA:07 Day Six – Tuesday, 11 September 2007 Tuesday was a pretty mellow day. This is good, my mind and body needed some rest and relaxation. 11:30a Kassys Workshop, PNCA 12:30p Shaking the Columns, PNCA 6:00p Roberta Uno Lecture, W+K … Continue reading →

Posted by Meg Peterson Perched in a nearly full house at Lincoln Hall for Kassys’ KOMMER, I was thinking of my mother. She lives in Helena, Montana, where she works in State Government Social Services, tends to three schnauzers, organizes … Continue reading →

So I’m a preschool teacher, among other things, and I jumped right on this Tiny TBA thing. I don’t have any children of my own, and my kid date fell through, so I went it alone, without the benefit of … Continue reading →

It’s hard not to be won over by Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s peculiar brand of dance theater. Last year, Poetics: a Ballet Brut was the talk of the festival with its simple premise: the easiest everyday gestures, delivered off the … Continue reading →

I discovered William Kentridge early last year, when I picked up a book in the art book sale bin at Powell’s. Since then, he’s influenced me to get back into making animation and inspired me to tell a fellow MFA … Continue reading →

I love Taylor Mac. Portland loves Taylor Mac. Or at least the 200 people I saw him with did, and the hundreds more I saw him with last year. What is it we love so much? When I asked my … Continue reading →

There is a dilemma at the core of The BE(A)ST of Taylor Mac that any self-aware snob has had to contend with before: what to do when the subculture moves to the mainstream, or rather, when an act from the … Continue reading →

posted by Amber Bell Although I had to work early the next morning, I did not want to miss going to The Works Monday night. I was looking forward to Anna Oxygen’s latest all natural psychedelic concoction. Even more, I … Continue reading →

I came home Saturday afternoon from the On Sight opening to find a postcard filed in between the bills and magazines in our mail slot. Thumbing through the stack, I almost passed it over as an ad for a dental … Continue reading →