Well, Mr. Scatter does, for one.
Sitting here at the Scatter International Clearing Desk this afternoon he ran across a press release from the Portland Art Museum, announcing an upcoming lecture by Iwona Blazwick, director of Whitechapel Gallery in London. The talk will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 18, in the museum’s Whitsell Auditorium, and [...]
Counsel, call your next witness.
Your honor, Leonard Bernstein calls Claudio Monteverdi to the stand. Or maybe it’s the other way around.
Mr. and Mrs. Scatter went to the opera over the weekend, where Bernstein’s 1952 Trouble in Tahiti followed Monteverdi’s Il Ballo delle Ingrate (The Dance of the Ungrateful Women) from 1608 and Il Combattimento di [...]
Mrs. Scatter posted in Parenting 101 how she constantly looks for opportunities to impart valuable life lessons on the Large Smelly Boys.
As Mr. Scatter noted in a recent post, The Scatter Family has been on the road. Longtime Scatter friends know that when the family travels in the Large Smelly Boymobile they [...]
Mrs. Scatter takes her ever-loving Mom Job seriously, constantly looking for opportunities to impart valuable life lessons on the Large Smelly Boys. They are still at a tender age when they’re vulnerable and impressionable, so she takes great care in modeling supreme mature behavior. She takes this job so seriously, in [...]
Feeling a little low? Need to bounce back from a bad day? This looks like a dizzy way to do it.
Una Loughran of BodyVox sent along this photo, by Michael Shay of Polara Studio, of Jamey Hampton’s new piece Trampoline, part of Smoke Soup, a program of new works opening tonight at the BodyVox Dance [...]
Life comes at you in waves, and before one wave pounds against the rocks another one’s just beginning to rise toward its crest. Arts groups in particular know this universal truth: While you’re busy smacking against the shoals of one opening night, several others are already gathering strength.
Portland Taiko’s 2010 season begins this weekend with [...]
No, not the golf course. Mr. and Mrs. Scatter do not do the Scottish thing. (Maybe the Scotch thing, but that’s different.) This morning the Scattermobile is heckbent for the Oregon coast to take the salty waters for a few days, Large Smelly Boys in tow and hoping that some Susan Cooper on tape will [...]
Bad news often breaks on Friday afternoons, and today is no exception: The Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center is shutting its doors.
The Oregonian’s D.K. Row has the story on Oregon Live; expect him to explore it in greater depth soon.
The city-run Portland Parks & Recreation, which owns the old firehouse and its grounds, announced that the [...]
“Money, pardon the expression, is like manure,” the indefatigable Dolly Levi maintains in Thornton Wilder’s stage comedy The Matchmaker. “It’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around, encouraging young things to grow.”
Funny, isn’t it, that both money and manure hit the fan in the world of politics? This isn’t a condemnation. It’s the necessary [...]
I have a dirty little secret. It’s so dirty I don’t even add commas between adjectives.
It starts out innocently enough. I poke around the fridge and come across a jar with a few floaty thingies and a bunch of brine. And I realize the fridge is full of jars with a few [...]