Cristina Cano is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and theater nerd. Above all, she is a performer who loves to play with language. Cristina creates music under the name Siren and the Sea, and has also most recently been seen on stage accompanying Portland’s Sallie Ford, and Albatross. She has been involved with the performance community as […]
Read more "Feed"In the months after I had my first child, I was plagued by a variety of gruesome visions. I’d be walking down the stairs, holding my son in a blanket, and picture myself falling and smashing our heads into the wall at the bottom. I’d be driving to Target with him in the backseat and […]
Read more "Violence, Media, and Helicopter Parenting"This was originally published on another blog in 2014, but is no longer available online, so we’ve republished it on the PDXX Collective. by Lauren Rother There’s an impossible choice that we’ve been talking about as a country for centuries: safety or freedom. It is a choice many women make over the course of their lives, often […]
Read more "Safety or Freedom: Which Would You Pick?"By now we all know about the controversy shrouding the mysterious surprise announcement that Harper Lee’s new/super-old novel, Go Set a Watchmen, would be published after “disappearing” for half a century. It’s tough to remember, in the week of sordid details since, how pure and incredible and fantastic those initial moments were. The moments lived […]
Read more "To Tweet a Mockingbird: A Love Letter to Literary Twitter"This was originally published on another blog on July 25, 2011, but is no longer available online, so I’ve republished it for the PDXX Collective. For the month of November 2010, everyone walking by in Portland, Oregon got to watch Cristin Norine sleep, eat, blow her nose and read her email. The Public Isolation Project […]
Read more "The Public Isolation Project"One way to consider issues of scale for education and connections for youth is to think about ways in which the Internet can be used to its fullest potential. Though there aren’t many educational organizations that do this, Internet based programs thrive in other industries and they are important to consider when we think about […]
Read more "Scale, Education and The Internet"I’m really getting worried for men my age. Last month I wrote a piece where I referenced the death of an acquaintance; a guy I worked music festivals with in Canada. What I didn’t tell you then was that his death was a suicide. Two weeks ago I got a call that a friend from […]
Read more "A New Lost Generation"The interim music fades out. The house lights dim. The chatter ceases. The chorus of catcalls, woo-hoos, unified cheers, and wild applause swells and rushes in to fill the sonic void. Your favorite set of musicians and singers glide onto the stage to look out at you all and rising from the back pockets and […]
Read more "The New Archivists: How Digital Devices are Ruining the Experience of Live Music"
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