Cooking show host (and intrepid New Oregon Arts & Letters reporter) Nora Robertson sets out to demonstrate the simplest of dishes, the hard-boiled egg, but the lesson soon goes awry as surreal interludes of virgin sacrifices to a Ghanaian snake god, a 60’s Hollywood dinner party and a deviled egg recipe intrude. Based on Robertson’s 2007 Pushcart Prize-nominated poem, “How to Boil an Egg”, this experimental short video punctures the notion of the housewife who can keep her family safe through wholesome food and hygiene. Collaborators include poet and performer Nora Robertson, video artist Jason Bahling, musician Tim John O’Brien and writer Mark Russell.
A benefit cabaret and screening to raise funds for post-production costs will be held at Someday Lounge on November 3rd. Performers include Back Fence producer B. Frayn Masters and Nathaniel Boggess as storytellers, Oregon Literary Fellow Margaret Malone and Portland Noir contributor Gigi Little, and Dogwalker author/MTV’s How’s Your News? director Arthur Bradford will be reading short selections of fiction, and singer/songwriter Danielle Fish with her band Paschal Coeur will be performing retro cover songs about food and sex/gender. A Voodoo doughnut-eating contest will be judged by Voodoo Doughnut owner Tres Shannon, Plazm co-editor Tiffany Lee Brown and New Yorker contributor Shannon Wheeler based on quality of technique, such as Best Use of Hole. Contestants include Brody Theater principal Brad Fortier, Village Voice cartoonist Matt Bors, a representative from Stumptown, Paschal Coeur frontwoman Danielle Fish and The Pragmatic frontman/Remix Artists Collective DJ Karl Kling.
Sponsors include Voodoo Doughnuts and Bad Monkey Productions. Wednesday, November 3rd, Someday Lounge, 7:30-9PM, door at 7PM, $5-15 sliding scale.
