By Laura Grimes
Mr. Scatter has been hogging the blog of late. I forgive him, though. It’s not like he’s been eating bonbons. I know full well that he’s the muscle to my muse, the bacon to my trifle.
Art Scatter works to deliver a full-course meal, and I don’t mind being the pastry [...]
By Bob Hicks
Art Scatter’s ramble through the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 75th anniversary season is closer to its end than its beginning, and it strikes us once again how much this thicket of theater interconnects. A lot of that has to do with the nature of rotating repertory, which gives audiences the chance to see the [...]
By Bob Hicks
Lanky and improbably lean-headed, with a cliffside of forehead pierced by a widow’s peak of bristling orange hair, Dan Donohue looks a little like the late-night television host Conan O’Brien — or maybe an O’Brien sired by Loki, the god of mischief.
As Hamlet in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s current production of the Danish [...]
By Bob Hicks
Art Scatter, despite its name, is mostly about pulling things together. We examine the daunting scatter of incident that is contemporary culture — this endlessly broad turmoil of emotions, beliefs and events — and gather them together, looking for patterns, similarities, fragments of coalescence. Out of chaos, we seek structure and story. We [...]
By Laura Grimes
We’re traveling, we pack of five breathing each other’s air and bumping inside each other’s heads. We eat the same food. We stop from spot to spot, sightsee, and mere snippets intermingle, weave together something anew and haul us along.
Everywhere we go we pick up words and take them with us. They lift [...]
By Bob Hicks
Ah, the adventures of the road. The brain trust at Art Scatter World Headquarters has packed up and squeezed itself temporarily into the Scattermobile, partaking of adventures large and small. We’ve ingested the oyster and the clam, descended into Devil’s Churn, gazed upon the gathered elk, spied osprey and eagle and hawk, felt [...]
By Laura Grimes
When I complained to Mr. Scatter that I had only snippets, no whole stories, he said, “Do centered asterisks.”
“Wha?” I creased my brow.
“Do centered asterisks.”
Like that’s supposed to help me. I’m not sure what the heck he’s talking about.
Oh, wait, there’s one!
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Oh, heck. Now it’s gone.
The Scatter Family is on the road. At [...]
By Bob Hicks
It was a long, long night, and by daylight its shadows were still playing tricks.
Saturday night’s opening of the eagerly anticipated Long Day’s Journey Into Night was more than a social event, although it was that. The Newmark Theatre was packed to its two-balcony gills. A post-show spread of food and drink sprawled [...]
By Laura Grimes
The Pantsless Brother has been lobbying for a name change. I’m not sure why. It fits so well (in a pantsless way).
I’m a little reluctant to cave in so easily to the whim of one whiny* reader. I still hold tight to my journalistic ethics. I insist on maintaining a little distance so [...]
By Bob Hicks
It’s pretty grim, according to Steve Law’s report, Historical Society may ask voters for tax levy, in The Portland Tribune, and Sarah Mirk’s followup, State History Museum Will Run Out of Cash in 2011, Pitches Tax To Stay Afloat, in The Mercury’s Blogtown.
Things are skeletal right now. Oregon Historical Society boss George Vogt [...]