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On March 7, 2025 at 2:30 p.m., Portland State’s Vanguard and Subbasement Studios sat down for a press conference with President Ann Cudd. Using…
“Immersive realism is a form of the genre that strives to balance elements of fantasy (“magic”) and realism”. Studio Ghibli, a film studio based…
Portland State University’s motto, “Let Knowledge Serve The City” is an engraved adage suspended from parking deck 1 so the masses of downtown can…
This essay is a work of satire, in the style of the late Binyavanga Wainaina’s “How to Write About Africa” and Bright Alozie’s “How…
If you want to make a movie….where do you start? Maybe you know the answer. But, do you? What can be in a script?…
Paul Collins’ literary life spans decades. It was ignited by two things: his (paradoxically) non-literary parents and his rural-valley isolation during his youth. Collins…
This piece was cowritten by Sarah Samms & Jeremiah Hayden On a recent Wednesday afternoon, a diverse group of students and faculty stood quietly…
“We are showered every day with gifts, but they are not meant for us to keep. Their life is in their movement, the inhale…
This essay is a work of satire, modeled after Bright Alozie’s “How to Write About Nigeria.” Much like Alozie’s 2021 essay, this post captures…
“We do not ‘come into’ this world; we come out of it. . . Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of…