Vol. 71, no. 16
Once Upon A Weekend fosters exciting theatre experience, allows unexpected to shine
Students crowded into the black box theatre Saturday night to witness this semester’s installment of Once Upon A Weekend, the biannual production from the theatre board, also known as (Pause). Audience members were first acquainted with the basic premise of Once Upon a Weekend: a theme is announced and the (Pause) board gives a week to any interested students to write a ten minute play relating to the theme, this semester's was “Stages”. Actors and directors then had two days to put the winning plays on stage, complete with memorized lines and costumes.
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Scissors For Lefty, two PDX bands play in Nail tonight
Although the Rusty Nail’s lifespan has been cut short considerably, the remainder of this semester will allow the venue to provide highly valuable entertainment, thanks to the LC Music Coalition.
Tonight in the Nail, San Francisco band Scissors For Lefty will play with Wet Confetti and The Shaky Hands at 8pm.
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Vagina Monologues doesn’t beat around the bush
Dressed predominantly in black with red accents, the women performing in Lewis & Clark’s annual staging of The Vagina Monologues were greeted by a full house as they filed into the Flanagan Chapel last Thursday.
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APEX at Portland Art Museum offers abstractions, optimistic message
In the second installment of APEX, a series celebrating the city’s most notable contemporary art, the Portland Art Museum presents the work of PDX-based artist Chris Johanson.
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To tune in or to tune out?
The Sound and the Fury with Drew
Mondays, 4:00-6:00pm
Monday afternoons on KLC are far from listless while Drew Kelly (’09) packs the digital-airwaves with a cacophonous fusion of hip-hop, classic rock and indistinguishable synthesized tunes.
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Andrew Bird’s new record doesn’t quite take flight
At first listen, Andrew Bird’s soon-to-be-released new album Armchair Apocrypha may prove a disappointment to faithful Bird watchers. The melodies and instrumentation are more monotonous and less striking than his previous releases The Mysterious Production of Eggs and Weather Systems. After the initial delight of hearing altogether new melodies caressed by Bird’s straightforward, sensual voice and daringly modern violin playing comes a letdown; his witty lyricisms fail to jump out at the listener in short, exhilarating epiphanies as they so often did on his other albums.
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Books that (badly) kick your butt
Rainbow Party by Paul Ruditis
The cover of Rainbow Party looks innocuous enough. Seven different tubes of lipstick, one for each hue of the rainbow, sparkle in a line, making it look for all the world like another mini-chick lit novel. Expectations for this sort of teen lit are pretty low. Reading most books for 15-year-olds, after all, makes you feel a bit like being 15 again—and really, being 15 kind of sucked.
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Books that kick your butt
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Brian Selznick is not a writer, nor is he an illustrator, really, but his innovative new book, the 530-page novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, speaks to the contrary. The genre-bending novel has already made a splash on NPR and shot onto Amazon’s Top Sellers list. Comparisons with Harry Potter are inevitable; like Rowling’s astoundingly successful series, Hugo Cabret is a cross-generational crowd pleaser and a true genre hybrid: part children’s book, mystery novel, graphic novel, flipbook and movie.
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Get off yer @ss!
Discover why you should be glad that the 1990’s are over at the “I Love the ’90s” dance in Stamm tomorrow night. This dance that previously supplemented Casino Night will begin at 9pm and continue until 1am.
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