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A Chinese Oregonian Takes Back the Armorynew
Bruce Locke starred in such films as Black Rain, The Shadow, and especially Robocop 3, in which he played a trio of robot ninja assassins. Now Locke is starring in a production of Snow Falling on Cedars in a building that building was built in case of a Chinese immigrant uprising.
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In Matthew Flaming's Debut, the Secret, Sordid Origins of... Toledo?new
Life before the internal combustion engine was no damn fun. That, along with a vague sense of disquiet, is the thrust of The Kingdom of Ohio (Amy Einhorn Books, 322 pages, $24.95), the debut novel of Matthew Flaming, who lives either in Brooklyn or Portland.
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Apollo, Nancy Keystone's three-part epic play about Nazi scientists, NASA and the civil-rights movement, premiered last Friday at Portland Center Stage after eight years of development.
Willamette Week |
Ben Waterhouse |
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Excerpts of the unauthorized biography of Ken Kesey.
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Books: 'Autobiography Of A Recovering Skinhead'new
Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead (Hawthorne Books, 316 pages, $15.95), co-authored by Jody Roy, provides a rare insight into the creation and undoing of an American monster.
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Wells Tower's 'Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned': Short Stories to Pillage Bynew
There’s a great moment in Retreat, a new short story by Wells Tower. Two brothers have been out deer hunting on a chilly island in Maine. They haven’t bagged anything, and they’re wet and cranky. But just as they’re packing up for the day, one spies an enormous moose.
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