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An allied front:Standing ‘out’ but not alone

Alone at center stage, a confident young woman proclaims, “I’m a lesbian, a student, a daughter, a violinist and a brunette.”

She’s uncertain of her place in the world, but has found comfort and relief in realizing that she prefers girls over boys. Her acceptance and recognition of her lesbianism doesn’t define her, but is one characteristic among many.

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Arts Planner

Now playing • Mad Horse Theatre Company christens the new performance space at Lucid Stage on Baxter Boulevard in Portland with a production of John Guare’s masterpiece “Six Degrees of Separation.” Director Peter Brown calls the play an “imaginative tour de force.” It’s 20 years old, but the Portland production marks the first time the […]

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For ‘Pearls’ cartoonist, job ‘is like oxygen’

Stephan Pastis detested lawyering, but he loves cartooning. Pastis, the 42-year-old creator of the comic strip “Pearls Before Swine,” earned a degree in political science, then went on to law school at UCLA. For several years, he worked as a litigation attorney in San Francisco. And he hated every minute of it. “The best day […]