You may have seen my posts for this show elsewhere on livejournal, but I'm just so damn proud of how it's turning out that I wanted to share the info.

Best,

Steve Patterson

Pavement Productions and The Bluestockings are proud to present Dead of Winter, three ghost stories written for the stage by Portland playwright Steve Patterson.


Winter. Bare trees. Fog. A chill breeze. It's the perfect time of year to cozy up and tell stories about things that might be there, in the dark. In the night. And that's just what these three psychological chillers do: explore that which isn't there…unless it is.

 

 

• Winner of the Sam Bass One-Act Contest in Austin, Whitechapel takes us to a London flat which may or may not be haunted by the grandfather of serial killers, Jack the Ripper.
• A World Premiere written especially for The Bluestockings, Wet Paint invites us into a house which may or may not have uninvited guests, and a rainy night's séance which may or may not be harmless fun.
• The evening wraps up with The Body, a visit with a grieving coroner who may or may not be a little too in touch with one of his "patients." The Body was featured in The Nature of Fear and Its Effects, produced by Jobsite Theatre at the Tampa Performing Arts Center.

Directed by Pavement Productions' Co-Producer Lisa L. Abbott, Dead of Winter's cast includes Trish Egan, Angie Hughes, Reba Kenison, Deborah Zelda Lee, Harold Phillips, Ben Plont, and Justina Price, with set design by Sean DeVine, lights by Julie Booth, and sound design by Gordon Romei.

 

 

Dead of Winter opens 8:00 PM February 1, 2008, at Performance Works Northwest (4625 SE 67th Avenue, Portland) in the Foster Arts District. It runs Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays through February 23^rd. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door, and $10 for students and seniors. Thursdays are sliding scale. Tickets can be purchased online at www.theblustockings.com. (Also check out the Bluestockings site for a Dead of Winter teaser video.) For reservations, call 503-777-2771.

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So I finally got around to trying the much-lauded Stanich's. I got a regular cheeseburger with fries and a soda.

The burger was excellent. Everything was quite fresh, great bun, cooked medium (hallelujah!) and very enjoyable. I'd go back, except... what the hell is with their fries?? They were overcooked on the outside to the point of bitterness, yet underdone on the inside to the point where they were actually tough to chew! They were also sopping with grease. I mean, they were even worse than the fries at McMenamin's, and those oily little shoestrings are NASTY.

Anyway, I'd recommend them for a cheeseburger, but skip the fries.

current state: contemplative