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Oregon’s Sen. Jeff Merkley holds key vote on saving...

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2025/06/18

Sunday, June 22, is a key deadline for the proposed budget, which would eliminate the NEA and NEH. ArtsWatch has resources, call scripts, and more to help Oregonians push back.

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OSF announces abrupt departure of executive director

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2025/06/18

Citing ‘personally requested leave,’ Calicchio leaves after less than seven months leading the business side of Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Announcement on succession planning expected next week.

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Amy Mason Doan’s novel, ‘The California Dreamers,’ is...

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2025/06/18

The Portland writer says she drew inspiration for the book from a California surfing school run by Dorian ‘Doc’ Paskowitz, who lived off-the-grid with his family.

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DramaWatch: Beyond Bozo & other clowns

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2025/06/17

Integrating clown performance with PETE’s "Aw, Hell"; Anthony Hudson (Drag Clown Carla Rossi) is co-producing the third annual drag workshop, part of the Risk/Reward festival of new performances. Plus: other opening shows, summer festivals, season announcements.

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Gathering in memory of playwright Steve Patterson

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2025/06/17

A wake will be held June 17 for Patterson, co-founder of Playwrights West and the prolific author of 50-plus plays, including "Waiting on Sean Flynn" and "Ghostlighting."

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The vision gets clearer when we talk about it...

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2025/06/16

The singer, composer, and educator talks about her recent Oregon Music Teachers Association Composer of the Year Award, her life as a teacher, and her latest compositions.

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I can hear it in the wind: “Celilo Falls” with the...

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2025/06/16

The expanded collaborative work by photographer Joe Cantrell, storyteller Ed Edmo, and composer Nancy Ives premiered at The Schnitz this month.

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Isaka Shamsud-Din: Portland’s voice of determined joy

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2025/06/15

A pivotal figure in the city's art world, the distinguished painter and chronicler of the breadth and vigor of Black American life is resting from a long battle with cancer.

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The Cultural Landscape: Part 22

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2025/06/15

Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of composer and professor Freddy Vilches, author and editor Lee Montgomery, novelist and web developer Kevin Maloney, visual artist Brenda Mallory, and actor/teacher Phillip Ray Guevara.

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PuzzleWatch: Pomp and Classical Circumstance

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2025/06/15

June is the month of weddings and graduations, and no ceremony is complete without its corresponding music. Put your knowledge of those tunes to the test with this latest crossword puzzle.

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Art on the Road: Is there a safe place?

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2025/06/14

As massive protests rise from L.A. to D.C., three exhibitions at the California African American Museum and the Benton Museum of Art Pomona College tackle questions of how to live with oppression, instability, and an uncertain future.

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The Reser’s 25/26 season: Eliades Ochoa, Portland...

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2025/06/14

Beaverton's visual and performing arts center announces its newest season of performances, to kick off in September.

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Earnest’s Wilde, Wilde Oregon days

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2025/06/14

With "The Importance of Being Earnest" already playing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Kamilah Bush's fresh adaptation for Portland Center Stage unveils Oscar Wilde's queer coding and gives the comedy some delightful bite.

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James Bash, Angela Allen elected officers of Music...

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2025/06/13

Oregon ArtsWatch writer Bash is the North American critics' group's new president and fellow ArtsWatch writer Allen is re-elected as secretary on the executive board.

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Portland writer Steven Christiansen’s YA novel, ‘The...

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2025/06/12

The tale of a 17-year-old riding the train weekdays from Gresham to Hillsboro is an entrancing read, full of teenage trauma and yearning.

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MFA:NW connects emerging artists and rural...

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2025/06/12

In its pilot year, a juried show of work by eight young artists explores issues of gender, sexuality, and being in the world as a physical body.

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Lauren Yee’s ‘Mother Russia’ at Profile: Comedy,...

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2025/06/12

Yee's undercurrent of humor cushions deeper questions about communism, capitalism, the fall of the Soviet Union, and the ways we live our lives.

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FilmWatch Weekly: ‘The Life of Chuck,’...

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2025/06/12

This week at the movies: an existential Stephen King adaptation, Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal in a romcom from "Past Lives" director Celine Song, plus the Western "The Unholy Trinity" and the Portland Horror Film Festival.

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Alberta Abbey: One Space, One Vision, One Hundred Years

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2025/06/12

Through decades of transitions, the 100-year-old space in Northeast Portland has remained at the heart of the community, even while navigating financial challenges, a pandemic, and even ghosts.

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Remembering dancer, choreographer and teacher Anita...

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2025/06/11

The much-loved advocate of the Bharatanatyam dance of her native India, who established Portland's Anjali School of Dance and also worked on Western theater projects, is praised for her openness and collaborative approach to art.

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