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Wheaton joins costars Corey Feldman and Jerry O'Connell for a live conversation following a screening of the film on Sunday, March 29 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
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Review: Los Angeles' Versa-Style Street Dance celebrates hip hop and street styles in a three-night stand at The Reser.
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3A presented the Boston composer’s trippy, complex, and timely scifi opera in Hillsboro.
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Grants from the Oregon Arts Commission and others will fund an expansion this year to Astoria and continue the organization’s mission of bringing together young aspiring musicians from across the state.
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Theater review: The Tigard musical theater company presents a beautiful but devastating look at isolation in adolescence and beyond.
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What makes art? The tool or the artist? Is it possible to use AI to create your own original art? Hockenhull says it is, and he makes a good case for it.
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At FNM’s latest concert, singers and flutists and string players spread out around Reed College’s Performance Arts Building Atrium for renditions of spatial music by Knut Nystedt, Henry Brant, Pauline Oliveros, Jukka Tiensuu, and Oregon composer Nancy I...
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Mike Freiling of Vancouver, Wash., fell in love with the "Hyakunin Isshu" as a student. He also fell in love with a Japanese girl.
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The gallery pairs small-scale paintings by Joseph Jones with a Carolee Schneemann video to explore charm, intimacy, and constructed reality.
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Small and midsize arts groups praise the audit report and push for a bigger slice of the Arts Tax pie as the city listens to public feedback until April 1.
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From van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece to Aesop's Fables, cultural depictions of lambs and lions are often loaded with meaning. See how much you know about these animals and the artists who portrayed them in this March puzzle.
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The push for a $600 million rehab of the Trail Blazers' 30-year-old home comes with few architectural details or sense of how it would fit in with its surroundings.
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The downtown building’s revival joins nostalgia to utility, returning a historic landmark to a working cultural venue and economic spur.
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Well-known visual artists Prochaska and Portland and playwright/television writer Overmyer leave deep imprints on the city and the arts world.
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Also this week: The Oscar-winning documentary "Mr Nobody Against Putin," "Idiotka," and 1988's "A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon" on Blu-ray.
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The co-founder of the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra replaces Ken Peplowski, who died last month.
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PBO premiered works by seventeenth-century composer Alessandro Melani and others sponsored by Queen Christina of Sweden.
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Three concerts from the recent Biamp PDX Jazz Festival featured dazzling singers and a quartet that was perhaps too loud for the venue.
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Gubbiotti's small but staggering geometric paintings find a perfect home at RecRoom in Eugene. The pairing proves that intimacy and ambition can go hand in hand.
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The early American chamber piece – composed for what Johnson describes as a “mixed timbre ensemble” of clarinets, harp, and strings – will join similarly scored works by Debussy and Schumann on a Chamber Music Northwest program March 28.
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