The 2008 Portland Jazz Fest kicks off Friday February 15th.

The fifth annual Portland Jazz Festival, presented by Qwest & The Oregonian A&E, will open with 2007 Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Ornette Coleman on Friday, February 15, 7:30 PM, at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Tickets are selling fast. The legendary alto saxophonist, whose last Portland appearance was in 1983, will be celebrated through a series of performances, lectures, panel discussions, and workshops under the banner of The Shape of Jazz to Come.

Grab your tickets and then click here for your Portland Jazz Festival Hotel Package

Webisode 1 of 7 is ready for online consumption.

Here’s a little blurb about what lady wasteland is about:

“Lady Wasteland is a webisode series that tells a story rooted in the misfortune of individuals left to scour a vast wasteland in search of their own private destiny.”

The remaining 6 will be released weekly. Be careful out there in the wasteland.

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credits (not full list)
director: mark roush
creative director: brian treleaven
flash dev: josh k

The Ace hotel will be hosting an Art Yardsale this Saturday, September 8th “from noon ’till late.”  Music will begin at 7PM with The Forhorn Stringband and Paul Silveria who will play your favorite ol’ timey dance tunes. Doors at 6, $5. All ages. Beer and wine available for purchase.

Contributing artists include:

Art Chantry •  Tyler Stout • Jim Riswold • Modern Dog (Robynne Raye and Michael Strassburger) • MK Guth • Peter Wegner • Sarah McCarry • Nan Curtis + Marty Houston • Rashel Peddersen • Mike King • Justin Parker • Inge Bruggeman • Morgan Ritter • Jason Miranda • Margaret Richardson • Guy Burwell •  Danny Seim • Kristan Kennedy • Koichi Yamamoto • Tim McGrath • Jeral Tidwell (poster for Dr. Martens) • Cheyenne Sawyer • Ed King and a whole crew of crazy castaways.

Proceeds from the ART YARDSALE will benefit the Elizabeth Hawthorne Hunt Memorial Printmaking scholarship.