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Collages of Assimilation, 50 Years After the Vietnam War

1 week ago | pdxmonthly.com | Matthew Trueherz

You’re reading a past edition of our weekly Things to Do column, about the concerts, art shows, comedy sets, movies, readings, and plays we’re attending each week. Read the current installment. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. Before the internet’s oceanic memory, a paper shredder could render the most sensitive documents meaningless. Though in retrospect those cuts seem less final. As the Vietnamese American artist Dinh Q.
Behind a World-Premiere Ballet About Marilyn Monroe, a Team of Women

2 weeks ago | pdxmonthly.com | Matthew Trueherz

You’re reading a past edition of our weekly Things to Do column, about the concerts, art shows, comedy sets, movies, readings, and plays we’re attending each week. Read the current installment. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. When I interviewed Oregon Ballet Theatre artistic director Dani Rowe for Portland Monthly’s spring issue, she spoke about the studio as a place of collective imagination—a place where coming together means imagining together.
What, Exactly, Will Happen to Portland When The Big One Hits?

3 weeks ago | pdxmonthly.com | Matthew Trueherz

You’re reading a past edition of our weekly Things to Do column, about the concerts, art shows, comedy sets, movies, readings, and plays we’re attending each week. Read the current installment. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. Anyone who lives in the Cascadia Subduction Zone has at least a vague sense of what they might do if/when/should the Big One hit. The looming threat is probably the only reason you know what the Cascadia Subduction Zone is.
Cymande, Your Favorite Rapper's Favorite British Funk Band

1 month ago | pdxmonthly.com | Matthew Trueherz

You're reading our weekly Things to Do column, about the concerts, art shows, comedy sets, movies, readings, and plays we're attending each week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. Most people find the British funk band Cymande indirectly. Before its current reunion tour, which is coming to the Aladdin Theater Sunday, February 23, the band lived for only a short run in the early '70s.
Neighborhood Guide: Nob Hill in Northwest Portland

2 months ago | pdxmonthly.com | Matthew Trueherz

In an e-commerce world, Nob Hill can still sustain a full day of IRL shopping. Kitsch and thrift stores, shmancy retail outposts, and enough cafés and restaurants to fuel even the most ambitious quests line NW 23rd and 21st Avenues, the neighborhood’s dual main drags.
Russo Lee Reopens on a Painting-Filled First Thursday

2 months ago | pdxmonthly.com | Matthew Trueherz

You’re reading a past edition of our weekly Things to Do column, about the concerts, art shows, comedy sets, movies, readings, and plays we’re attending each week. Read the current installment. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. When smoke damage from a fire at a neighboring restaurant forced the art gallery Russo Lee to close this past August, the city temporarily lost one of its best places to see paintings.
What to See at the 2025 Biamp Portland Jazz Festival

2 months ago | pdxmonthly.com | Matthew Trueherz

If you don’t think jazz is your thing, think again. The genre has its roots in an early twentieth century blend of brass big bands, West African dance music, and blues. But jazz has forever been progressing and reimagining itself, famously doing so on the spot. At this year’s Biamp Portland Jazz Festival, produced for 22 years running by the nonprofit PDX Jazz, the genre’s modern range is on full display.
Please, Play with the Art

2 months ago | pdxmonthly.com | Matthew Trueherz

In Jelly Belly script on the entryway wall, the title Just Playin’ Around announces the latest show at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University. Going off the jesting title, and artist Joshua Sin’s pair of totem-like stuffed animal towers sitting beside it (they’re titled Power Up; you’re meant to hug them), it would be easy to write the show off as merely amusing, or worse, dismiss it as frivolous.
Eating as Self-Care and ‘The Taste of Things’

Jan 16, 2025 | pdxmonthly.com | Matthew Trueherz

You’re reading a past edition of our weekly Things to Do column, about the concerts, art shows, comedy sets, movies, readings, and plays we’re attending each week. Read the current installment. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. Before the foodie, we had the gourmet. A nineteenth-century French gentleman, and unfortunately always a gentleman (the French word has no feminine form), the gourmet is an expert connoisseur of haute cuisine.
In This Year: Going to the Movies

Jan 9, 2025 | pdxmonthly.com | Matthew Trueherz

You’re reading a past edition of our weekly Things to Do column, about the concerts, art shows, comedy sets, movies, readings, and plays we’re attending each week. Read the current installment. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. Have you had any clumsy portmanteaus thrown at you recently? “Glicked”? “Babyferatu”?