http://www.artscatter.com a Portland-centric arts and culture blog Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:34:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/the-dirty-little-secret-behind-the-dirty-little-secret-martinis/ Here at Art Scatter World Headquarters we're identifying proudly these days with the good townswomen of River City, Iowa, in The Music Man: "Pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little, cheep cheep cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more." With emphasis on the "talk a ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/art-scatter-officially-runs-off-at-mouth/ Hand me a hanky. I’m considered a … a … a … retinue. Bless me. So says Mr. Mead of Blogorrhea fame. It’s not to be confused with something in your eye. Instead, I’m a retinue ... to Mr. Scatter’s gadabout. Lest you think I’m talking nasty, this comes from a communicable blog ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/the-weekend-sneeze-report/ "When I see three oranges, I juggle," the then 24-year-old highwire daredevil Philippe Petit is supposed to have said in 1974 after his 110-story-high prance between the two unfinished towers of the World Trade Center. "When I see two towers, I walk." When Glenn Beck sees his foot, he inserts it ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/let-the-great-world-spin-in-its-grave/ Martha Ullman West, Art Scatter's chief correspondent, has been trotting the globe. She's endured an evening of wretched belly-dancing on the Nile, chatted with a centenarian ballet dancer in Philadelphia, revisited the works of Jerome Robbins in New York, and returned home to Portland, where she found irritation with Random ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/belly-dancing-on-the-nile-our-far-flung-correspondent-hobnobs-and-returns/ One of this week's most interesting reads is by Associated Press writer David Runk, published in the Detroit News under the headline Detroit Wants to Save Itself by Shrinking. The crux: Much of the city has become so bleak and uninhabitable that Mayor Dave Bing and other city leaders want ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/detroit-garden-city-usa/ I'll be at Northwest Dance Project's studio in North Portland this afternoon for an onstage chat with Luca Veggetti, the Paris-based Italian choreographer who's in town to update his dance Ensemble for Somnambulists, which he created on the company dancers in 2006. This should be interesting. I sat in on a ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/reminder-dance-flight-this-afternoon/ What's it all about, Alfie? After a Friday evening of loosely organized chance in the company of Third Angle New Music Ensemble (the program included Terry Riley's endlessly mutable In C; California composer Mark Applebaum's similarly open-ended exploration of alternative musical "reading," The Metaphysics of Notation; and Portland composer David Schiff's ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/the-meaning-or-not-of-tick-tack-type/ This afternoon, while shuffling idly through the File of Unfinished and Rejected Posts -- it's true, not everything we write ends up in virtual print -- we found this piece from last August, initially rejected on the grounds that maybe it was a little off-topic and too much of a ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/to-the-lighthouse-mrs-woolf-and-pay-as-you-go/ Mr. Scatter is not a dancer. This may seem odd, considering the number of dance posts that have been on this site of late (or maybe, once you've read them, it seems painfully obvious), but that is partly a matter of coincidence. There's been a lot of dance in town ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/random-dance-and-other-movements/