Culture
Dance in Portland: White Bird flies high
Globe-trotting dance producers Paul King and Walter Jaffe bring innovation, class, and community to the Rose City's now-flourishing dance scene.
Stephen Marc Beaudoin
Latest work
Pacific Northwest
Update on Oregon Symphony: Five suggestions for new directions
An earlier article on the OSO generated lots of comment, and the plea for some positive suggestions. The author responds.
Tech
Can anybody fix the Oregon Symphony?
It will take more than an endorsement from Portland's reigning pop music star, Thomas Lauderdale of Pink Martini. The orchestra lost its charismatic conductor and now is losing audience and supporters, even as it's playing better than ever.
Tech
Portland's expressive marathon
The 11-day Time Based Art Festival was exhausting as usual but, event for event, not as consistently inspiring as last year's.
Pacific Northwest
Journal: Portland's Time-Based Art Festival
Reports from the 10-day avante-garde extravaganza, sponsored by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and which runs through Sept. 16.