Sundance Film Festival 2023 returns virtually and in-person, with events taking place from January 19 to 29. This list of short films represents our favorites out of this year’s nine short film...
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Vee Hua 華婷婷It’s been over ten years since I first interviewed musician and interdisciplinary visual artist Jimmy Edgar – who goes often these days as simply JIMMY – at a hotel room in Seattle. At the time, he was flying all over the world, DJing world...
Confession: the live shows of Portland duo Phone Call are one of the few things I miss about living in PDX, because no lie: their delightful electro-funk synth pop vibes are just feel-good, limb-flailing goodness. Now, emerging from nearly three...
Portland-based experimental filmmaker May Maylisa Cat has recently released two spoof movie trailers that are well-timed for the spooky fall season, but frankly, cover topics that are frightening year-round. Diversity Boss, Equity Keep, and...
Queer love is on full display in “arayemohenay,” a playful ditty of a jam by Portland-based pop musician Theresa Sweetheart. Shot on cellphones in vertical format, the track’s lo-fi music video serves as a mini-documentary about...
A project unlike any other, Changer: A Hand Telling, is a shapeshifter which has taken on many forms. First conceptualized by Native artists Fern Naomi Renville (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate) and Roger Fernandes (Lower Elwha S’Klallam, Makah) as a...
Terence Nance and I leapfrog through time and space. Numerous missed connections and mutual schedule misalignments occur until — two weeks later — we finally manage to get on the phone to speak about Nance’s new record, V O R T E X...
For the second year in a row, BAZZOOKAFEST 2022 returns as a free BIPOC-powered music and arts festival. Taking place at Jefferson Park in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood, the two-day event will feature an array of gender-expansive artists...