Twitter Giveaway: "How To Disappear" Tickets From Portland Center Stage

I saw “How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found” at Portland Center Stage last week. I am not a theater critic, but I do know entertainment–and this is highly entertaining. The set is fantastic as were the performances. You will enjoy this show.

Twitter LogoIn addition, we are giving away a pair of tickets to the show tomorrow (Friday) afternoon! Not only that, but we the winner will be drawn on the set by mister bloody hand himself in that picture…AND star of the show, Cody Nickell…going to be GREAT!! So, all you have to do to win is follow PDXPipeline on twitter and answer our trivia question (easy question) between 1:30-2PM on Friday the 13th. Examples of previous drawings are at the bottom of the post

If you want info about other shows and discounts and so forth, you should probably also follow Portland Center Stage on the twitter as well: @pcsghost

How to Disappear at Portland Center Stage

About the show:

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Upstream Battle, a German Documentary playing at PIFF

By Arthur Smid

Upstream battle, Portland International Film FestUpstream Battle showing at the Portland International Film Festival is one of the few, the proud, the only German film to feature Oregon politics?! What? Our squabbles over a few dams along the Klamath river interest the Germans? What gives?

Gotta love the Germans. All that historical guilt running them in the right direction. When you're unconscious of evil, you can commit evil acts and believe you are doing good. The German people seeing themselves portrayed as the bad guy in every popular entertainment from the Great War: it's bound to repel everyday Germans from anything that reeks of wrong-doing. The green movement is on good footing in northern Europe.

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