Andrew Jankowski

Portland

Assistant Arts and Culture Editor at Willamette Week

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Articles

Literary Arts’ Headquarters Will Soon Serve Coffee

3 weeks ago | wweek.com | Andrew Jankowski

Book-based nonprofit Literary Arts is starting a new chapter with its new onsite cafe. Opening Saturday, June 14, at the Summer Hammer Center in Southeast Portland where it moved last year, the Literary Arts Cafe will serve coffee-based drinks fueled by Upper Left Roasters and treats from Farina Bakery, turning the page this fall with a full food menu. The cafe opens a few hours earlier than Literary Arts’ office, starting at 7 am, with a prize giveaway running on opening day from 9 am to 3 pm.
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education Hosts Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project Exhibition

3 weeks ago | wweek.com | Andrew Jankowski

The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education will host an exhibition from the Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project, well beyond LGBTQ+ Pride season. Outliers and Outlaws: Stories From the Eugene Lesbian History Project opens Sunday, June 8 and runs to Oct. 26, focusing on the community of balabustas—a Yiddish term meaning “mother of the house”—that thrived from the 1960s through ‘90s in Eugene, Ore.
Risograph Printing Collective nůn studios Celebrates Five Years at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

3 weeks ago | wweek.com | Andrew Jankowski

“As a shop that has been almost secretive for five years in its operating, it’s a little terrifying to be in Willamette Week,” confesses artist and educator Sharita Towne, co-founder of nůn studios. “But I hope at the same time that the prints people have printed with us find good homes.” Pronounced “noon,” nůn studios is a risograph printing collective.
Portland LGBTQ+ Dance Club CC Slaughters Closing for Good in August

3 weeks ago | wweek.com | Andrew Jankowski

The Old Town LGBTQ+ dance club CC Slaughters and its adjacent cocktail space, the Rainbow Lounge, will close Aug. 3. CC’s, as it is commonly known, shared a social media post June 1 thanking Portland for decades of memories, including 22 years under the ownership of Bruce Rice. “CC Slaughters has played an iconic role as a safe-space for queer nightlife for over 44 years in Portland, Oregon,” the club’s Facebook post reads. CC’s first opened in 1981.
Schilling Cider Raises Over $105,000 for Conservation Nonprofits

4 weeks ago | wweek.com | Andrew Jankowski

Washington State-based Schilling Cider raised more than $105,000 for seven nonprofit organizations promoting wild space conservation across 11 states. Oregon Wild, Schilling’s only Beaver State beneficiary, was awarded $33,000 from a prize pot including five percent of the cidery’s April sales and donations from its distribution partners that ultimately exceeded last year’s prize of over $75,000.
Barry Manilow Will Award $10,000 to a Portland Public School and Its Music Teacher During His Rose City Concert

4 weeks ago | wweek.com | Andrew Jankowski

If you’re a Portland music teacher, Barry Manilow would really love to see you tonight. Well, not tonight, but on Wednesday, July 16 at the Moda Center stop of his Last Arena Tour. The “Copacabana” singer will honor regional music teachers on his farewell tour.
Cascadia Drag Festival Returns to the Clinton Street Theater

1 month ago | wweek.com | Andrew Jankowski

The second annual Cascadia Drag Festival attracted drag artists and fans from outside Portland’s immediate bounds to the Clinton Street Theater on May 22–24. As with last year, the Cascadia Drag Festival platformed more than 100 drag artists on the Clinton’s stage, sprouting around it a sidewalk makers market and satellite programs like drag-hosted karaoke nights at UnderBar in Vancouver, Wash., and at Suki’s, and an opening night party at Dots Cafe across the street.
Here’s How Some of Portland’s Arts Organizations are Fighting Back After Losing Funds From the National Endowment for the Arts

1 month ago | wweek.com | Rachel Saslow |Andrew Jankowski

On May 12, arts leaders and politicians gathered in the shiny new headquarters of All Classical Radio in downtown’s KOIN Tower as a show of force and community. It had been 10 days since the National Endowment for the Arts had pulled already-promised grants to 27 arts organizations across the state for an approximately $590,000 loss, seemingly at the behest of the Department of Government Efficiency, led by entrepreneur Elon Musk. The shock had worn off, perhaps, but the fury had not. U.S. Rep.
Beaverton Offers a Buffet of Culinary Possibilities

1 month ago | wweek.com | Andrew Jankowski

I knew Beaverton (or Beavertron, as we called it when the new Tron came out) was a culinary land of possibilities from the first time I visited the walk-up Taco Bell on Southwest Allen Boulevard 15 years ago. My palate has arguably matured in that time, but it feels like nothing compared to how wide the ‘Tron’s dining scene has exploded in that time.
Vancouver Is a Playground of Carnal Delight

1 month ago | wweek.com | Andrew Jankowski

Vantucky, the ‘Couve, Vancouver (with an aggressive French accent), and now the highly online arbitrary misspellings Vancouber, Vancoufer, etc. You haven’t inspired the respect you deserve, not as long as I’ve known you. With that confidence I call Vancouver the New Jersey of Portland: It’s smaller and less polished, the gas pump laws are different, and for a long time its cultural identity felt more connected to what’s across the river than what it holds for itself.