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Local CD Reviews January
May 19, 2009
On his 20th album, Ancestral Swamp (Gnomonsong Records), sixtysomething itinerant folkie (and cartoonist) MICHAEL HURLEY, who makes his home in Astoria, has a few prominent locals backing him up....
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Speech Therapy
May 19, 2009
Teenage angst and hormonal confessions take center stage at Portland’s latest literary showcase, Mortified.
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Flying Lessons
May 19, 2009
TO FINE-TUNE his giant slalom for the 2006 Olympics, Bode Miller relied on a secret weapon. No, not the kind you inject: Dartfish, a software program that about 95 percent of Olympic athletes...
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China Forbes
May 19, 2009
TRADING IN her trademark samba for more conventional sounds, Pink Martini diva China Forbes steers straight for the middle of the road on ’78, her first solo album in more than a dozen years (Heinz...
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Stage Fight
May 19, 2009
TODD POZYCKI is hoping Oscar Wilde got it dead wrong. Because if life imitates art, the local thespian might consider upping his life insurance policy. On the morning of his audition for the part...
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Barbara Ehrenreich
May 19, 2009
Reed College grad Barbara Ehrenreich’s most noteworthy efforts have been exposés about her travails in the workforce, her latest book, _This Land Is Their Land_, is a collection of essays about...
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Old Believers
May 19, 2009
Local CD Review
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Strong Timbre
May 19, 2009
From November 6 to 8, more than 300 of the world’s best luthiers—artisans who make stringed instruments—will descend on Portland for the Violin Society of America’s international competition....
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Life’s a Beach
May 19, 2009
"If you can’t get to paradise, I’ll bring it to you." That famous motto of Donn Beach, the visionary proprietor of Los Angeles-based Don the Beachcomber, which opened in the early 1930s, defined...
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X-Ray Visions
May 19, 2009
WHETHER THEY’RE TETHERING tiny horses to the curbs or defacing billboards extolling the virtues of beef, madcap creative types have long been a presence in Portland’s artsy underbelly. But none...
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