April Baer
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Portland, OR, United States
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Portland Still Struggling To Protect Creative Spaces, Despite Efforts
Montavilla's Pegasus Project offers an object lesson in the vagaries of preserving creative space for artists. → Read More
Southern Oregon Performing Arts Take Countermeasures For Wildfire Smoke
While this season's air quality is a marked improvement over recent years, smoke is still causing some disruption for events downwind from wildlands. → Read More
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Receives $4.5 Million From Warren Buffett's Sister
The unrestricted gift comes as the festival prepares for a leadership transition and another volatile fire season. → Read More
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Hires Nataki Garrett As Artistic Director
Nataki Garrett arrives in August to take the baton from Bill Rauch. → Read More
La Grande's Granada Theatre Severs Ties To Eastern Oregon Film Fest
Downtown La Grande's main movie venue, the Granada Theatre, has hosted Eastern Oregon Film Festival screenings for nine years. → Read More
Portland Art Museum To Home Marylhurst's Art Gym
The museum will house exhibitions in the spirit of the Art Gym, and house its extensive publication library. → Read More
Oregon 'Photo Evangelist' Cherie Hiser Dead At 79
Hiser's photos, revered throughout the West, showed a fluency of emotion for many subjects. → Read More
Tin House Publishing To End Print Magazine In 2019
The 20th-anniversary issue in June 2019 will be the last for one of the most recognized brands in literature. Book publishing and Tin House workshops will continue. → Read More
Paul Allen Remembered For Contributions To the Arts
Audiences in every corner of the Northwest benefited from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's giving. Allen died Oct. 15. → Read More
Oregon Animation Icon Will Vinton Dead At 70
Will Vinton's influential work in claymation launched the careers of countless other animators and film professionals. → Read More
Burning It Down With The Manila Sound
That time when political repression and post-colonial identity came together to make beautiful Filipino dance tracks. We've got four cuts to get you started. → Read More
Musicians Line Up In Opposition To Wyden's Royalty Bill
As a massive bill to change music royalty payments closes in on passage, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden threatens a procedural halt, unless his proposals get consideration. → Read More
Reading Sets Off Discussion Of Inclusivity At Tin House's Summer Workshop . News
A reading at last week's summer workshop underscores the fundamental challenges of making institutions more inclusive. → Read More
Seeds Scattered: What Will Happen To Marylhurst University’s Arts Programs?
As Marylhurst University winds down 125 years of higher education, several arts-related programs have found new homes. Other assets are swathed in the mystery of the school’s dissolution. → Read More
Beaverton Reveals Major Donor For New Arts Center
Reser Family Foundation gives $13 million for Patricia Reser Center for the Arts. → Read More
Portland Hip-Hop Promoter And Advocate Idris 'Starchile' O’Ferrall Dies At 42
Idris 'Starchile' O'Ferrall died Thursday. The founder of the Mic Check showcase in Portland suffered from lymphoma. → Read More
Stars Align In Oregon For 3 Indigenous Playwrights
An auspicious meeting of three playwrights, all indigenous, all women. We got to be in the room with them. → Read More
A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History Of Chuck Klosterman
A conversation from Wordstock 2017 dives into Taylor Swift’s savvy, inscrutable taste in leisure wear, and the fate of an NBA fan in a Timbers town. → Read More
Interview With Laura Veirs On Her New Album, 'The Lookout' . Radio
What could a musician-gone-podcaster-gone-children’s-author possibly want to do next? Return to music, naturally. → Read More
Portland Council Approves Spending More For Arts Tax Collections
Dismal collection rates have dogged the arts tax since its inception in 2012. The Portland Revenue Bureau estimates 1 in 4 eligible citizens just skips it. → Read More