Photo credit: Courtesy of Oregon Nikkei Endowment, ONLC #535
“These are law-abiding, upright people of our community. . .Have they done anything? Is there anything in their history in this area to justify such a fear of them developing overnight?”
– Azalia Emma Peet of Gresham, Oregon (February 26, 1942)
Curious about the Portland-story behind Snow Falling on [...]

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“King puts listeners under a spell they never quite forget.”
—Seattle Times critic Paul de Barros
 Jazz singer Nancy King is home for the holidays and taking up residence here at PCS every Saturday for SOUNDS. LIKE PORTLAND., our early evening local music showcase presented with Music Millennium.  
The Grammy-nominated King is a true Portland treasure—without a hint [...]

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photo credit: Tom Oliver
Our November artist Ali Ippolito, has invited her dear friend, the deeply talented Singer-songwriter Levi Cecil (of Heroes and Villians, KBOO Midnight Mixtape and Destination DIY fame) to sing songs and share the riches this weekend.
“If the Northwest has its own musical sound, it’s exemplified on Leviethan Cecil’s 2007 release, Monuments [...]

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Ali Ippolito is back this week, TODAY (Saturday, Nov. 14) at 5 pm with Sweet Williams Ghost, the kind of luxurious music that lives in the dreamy recesses beneath the floorboards of roots-rich Americana. It features Ali with Dean Gorman (guitar, vocals) and Ben Cartwright (dobro, lap steel, guitar). And it’s damn fine. You’ll rarely [...]

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Join us THIS Sunday, following the 2 p.m. matinee of Josh Kornbluth’s Ben Franklin Unplugged for Formative Stages: Theater and the Life of the Mind, copresented with The Oregon Psychoanalytic Center.
For this installment, Dr. Nancy Winters will delve into issues of independence, family and parental disappointment, and self-reliance in Kornbluth’s play. Winters quipped that Kornbluth’s [...]

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