1. GO WHOLE HORSE OR NO HORSE AT ALL
Two men, lovers, are sparring in a hexagonal ring: advance and retreat, circle and feint, posture and jab. The more nattily dressed one (Ian Carlsen), fueled by hurt and outrage, is on the offensive, while the other, John (Andrew Sawyer), paces and scrambles his defense. In a show called Coc…
“All lesbians really want is to nest and partner.”
The three-piece Bully Mammoth have been one of Portland's more mercurial rock acts for years now, hurtling between noise, cathartic drone, fuzzed-out college rock, and weird freakouts weaving in and out of pop conventions. Amassing several years’ recording output, including last year’s ambit…
Bisbee, Arizona is a haunted city. Once a prosperous copper mining region, the community of 6,000 a few miles from the Mexico border has lived for generations with the memory of one of the greatest humanitarian abuses in U.S. history occurring on its soil.
1. BETTER TO REIGN IN HELL
When Jewish-American photojournalist Jamie (Brooke Parks) meets a shoeless Syrian boy on the island of Lesvos, she feels compelled to shelter him. But she hasn’t thought through what to do next, and her compulsion to help the boy, Waleed (local actors Mohammad Adam, Hussein Al-Mshakheel, and…
Charlie (Burke Brimmer) is a shut-in, weighs 600 pounds, and is dying. His one friend, Liz (Amanda Eaton), a nurse, enables his obesity even as she tries to save him. And his only other contact with the outside world is through the lessons he broadcasts out (sans camera) to his online writin…
1. FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION
1. THE BONG IN THIS REGGAE SONG
As the scion of the 14th wealthiest family in America, Eliot Rosewater (David Surkin) gives out checks to opera companies, scholars, and poets. But the only poem Eliot ever liked was written on a bathroom stall in Indiana, and his favorite books are the sci-fi fantasias of a weirdo recluse n…
In Ashley Bryan’s beloved and award-winning storybook Beautiful Blackbird, the one black-feathered bird in the forest is the envy of all the other birds. They beg him for more black — and thus more beauty — on their own feathers, even as the blackbird tries to teach them that true beauty lie…
1. IT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING
Young college student Mira (Kerry Anderson) is lately restless, neurotic, prone to weeping. She feels as if she’s forgotten something crucial. But poetry changes everything — it raises Mira from her anomie and offers her communion and transcendence. The innovative theater company Bare Portla…
To hear W. Jo Moser tell the story of her career in photography is like listening to a love story. Moser has been photographing the LGBTQ community for over 30 years, and on October 25 will be presenting a retrospective of her work — the digital retrospective exhibition Going the Distance: L…
Upon discovering the neighbor’s dog killed with a garden fork — and finding himself named lead suspect — fifteen-year-old Christopher begins a murder investigation. A math genius on the autism spectrum, Christopher has a particular temperament for deduction. But his detecting soon unearths s…