Author Archives: pica-blogger

Feeling sorry for who? Note: If you haven’t seen the piece yet, you might wait reading this post until after you saw it as I reveal some parts of the piece that are essential to the experience this wonderful play … Continue reading →

Wowza, The Works has been fun this year. Between the PICA beer garden outside and the late night Wonder Cafe menu, I’ve logged a lot of hours and had a ball. If you’re new to TBA, this is the venue … Continue reading →

Greening TB:A -Posted by Patrick Alan Coleman The world’s culture has become obsessed with its demise. According to Reggie Watts wonderfully absurdist prophesy, Disinformation, that demise will come in 2012, when the Mayan calendar ends. More likely it we be … Continue reading →

Anna Oxygen Works it Out -posted by Patrick Alan Coleman I like the Works space this year, even though it does lack some of that high-end, DIY charm, which has been the hallmark of its previous incarnations. What works at … Continue reading →

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 →