Ali Ippolito (of Heroes and Villians, Nick Jaina fame) writes music with a haunting poetry and quiet authority that simultaneously tugs, pulls, coaxes, vexes, and inspires. A mezmerizing singer, Ippolito accompanies herself on piano, accordion, and the curious banjolele, giving us fading, sepia-tinged sonic postcards of love and loss.
Her simmering music–as captivating as Tom […]

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TS Eliot once said that April was the cruelest month, but that was probably because he never got to participate in a free legal workshop for scribble-centric modernists and other creatives…who knows, perhaps The Wasteland might’ve been populated with a few more hopeful Frostian roads less traveled.
Ever had a big idea swept away from you […]

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photo credit: Tom Oliver
“If the Northwest has its own musical sound, it’s exemplified on Leviethan Cecil’s 2007 release, Monuments in Memory of Nothing So Far. It’s vintage indie-rock made modern. The lyrics have a dreamlike quality, beautiful and deep. Monuments gets a place in my Top 10 CDs of 2007.”
-Amy Atkins, Boise Weekly
Singer-songwriter […]

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Around these parts our mission is inspire the community by “bringing stories to life in unexpected ways” or if you’re prone to anagrammatical games, you might say, “Bigger Notion stirs, an expediency fuels wit.”
All of which is to say, your last week to see Beard/Twelfth Night is nearing, before things take off with Sometimes A […]

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“A painter of anti-heroic subject matter on a heroic scale, wittily and effectively chronicling the fate of our environment.”
—Art in America
Rehearsals began today for PCS’s production of Ken Kesey’s iconic Oregon novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, adapted and directed by Aaron Posner. Fitting then that, in conjunction with this world premiere staging, […]

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Our mission ’round these parts is “bringing stories to life in unexpected ways. . .Theater brings us together, to sit near one another, to hear stories, to lift our voices in song. Theater creates worlds like no others; its immediacy cannot be duplicated; its intensity cannot be matched. A playwright’s miraculous words, directed […]

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2008 is the year of the cello. Fer real! One of the reasons we love the cello is because its range approximately matches the range of the human voice–it speaks to us. One other reason is that all of a sudden Portland’s favorite indie bands (Holcombe Waller, Bright Red Paper, John Weinland, Loch Lomond, […]

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Did you know that the world’s greatest living jazz singer lives right here in Portland and her name is Nancy King?
For real.
Don’t take my word for it. Ask some of her biggest fans like Diana Krall, Deborah Harry, Elvis Costello, Kurt Elling or Karrin Allyson—they’ll tell you that no one consistently breaks your […]

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