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The Purist [PDF]
A young artistic director remakes a ballet company in his own image.
Portland Monthly, Jun 2008
The Shape of Memory [PDF]
Maya Lin's penultimate public memorial
Portland Monthly, Nov 2007
Crossing Over [PDF]
Urbanites trade concrete for cow pastures in a unique rural reserve.
Portland Monthly, Nov 2006
Chaos Theory [PDF]
An undauntable arts impresario seeks stable funding for creative risk.
Portland Monthly, Aug 2006
Trade Dress on Trial [PDF]
Can prettiness be patented?
Plazm No. 21, 2001
Short features
The Bounceback [URL]
What will save Portland's economy? Two pundits hash it out in the national media.
Portland Monthly, May 2009
Rising from the Swamp [PDF]
A monumental memorial to Portland's greenspace revolution
Portland Spaces, Oct 2008
Mind the Gap [URL]
Buy green to protect your health, if you can afford to.
Portland Monthly, Oct 2008
Artful Lodger [PDF]
Thanks to slow sales, artist housing isn't just for artists anymore.
Portland Monthly, Feb 2008
Gospel Truth [PDF]
The first female Episcopal bishop confronts a looming denominational schism.
Portland Monthly, May 2007
Interviews
Professor Pain [PDF]
Torture historian Darius Rejali on what sleeping bags have to do with national security
Portland Monthly, Dec 2007
Shape Shifter [PDF]
Filmmaker Todd Haynes on Bob Dylan and the American search for authenticity
Portland Monthly, Sep 2007
Nau Voyager [PDF]
Sportswear visionary and celebrity scion Chris Van Dyke on going green for love and money
Portland Monthly, Mar 2007
The Believer [PDF]
Islamic apostate Daveed Gartenstein-Ross on betraying one's spiritual brothers
Portland Monthly, Feb 2007
Art & artists
Nervous Sweat [URL]
In choreographer Miguel Gutierrez's "Last Meadow," it's easy to let go of meaning and take the ride, but beware of being ditched at the curb.
Urban Honking, Sep 2009
Introducing Jessica Jackson Hutchins [PDF]
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A sculptor of cardboard and glitter discovers the powers of clay.
Modern Painters, Feb 2009
Chelsea Pearls [PDF]
A new building shifts the gravitational center of a city's art scene.
Portland Monthly, Jul 2007
Seize the Bay [URL]
An art lover's guide to San Francisco.
Portland Monthly, April 2007
Rock Star [PDF]
Artist, curator, and amateur geologist Terry Toedtemeier quarries photographs of the near and distant past.
Portland Monthly, April 2007
Passing the Baton [PDF]
Gregory Vajda and the Zen art of conducting
Portland Monthly, Jan 2006
Why Things Are Beautiful [URL]
Amos Latteier, pigeon fancier and fake professor
The Stranger, 2005
Convoluted Coils [PDF]
Michael Knutson's math-based paintings are greater than the sum of their parts.
The Organ, Winter 2004-05
Two for the Road [PDF]
Bordercrossing filmmakers Vanessa Renwick and Bill Daniels
The Organ, Nov/Dec 2003
Art Orgy [PDF]
When a 100,000-square-foot exhibition space is not enough
The Organ, July/Aug 2003
The IAE at Project Room One [PDF]
Relational aesthetics finds its post-ironic moment.
The Organ, May/Jun 2003
Architecture & design
Summer of Rummer [PDF]
A mid-century developer's copycat homes win a new generation of admirers.
Portland Monthly, Aug 2006
Prefabulous [URL]
Stylish living, straight off the factory floor
Portland Monthly, Dec 2008
Against the Grain [URL]
An erstwhile architect designs and builds a testament to his love of wood.
Portland Monthly, July 2008
Skylab Fab [PDF]
Architect Jeff Kovel sends his imagination into orbit with a playful family flat.
Portland Monthly, May 2007
First person
Cruise Control [PDF]
My car's third theft raises a new issue: Who's in the driver's seat of my life?
Portland Monthly, Jun 2006
Oddities
Disappearing [URL]
Melody Owens's anthology of artists' and writers' accounts of endangered species
Thistlepress, 2009
Fragments from the Front [PDF]
In the year Patty Hearst was captured, the bombing of Seattle had just begun.
The Organ, Winter 2004-05