A brutal and intense production full of uncomfortable revelations juxtaposed with the occasional oasis of beauty.
Category: Arts and Culture
Dark City is part thriller, part romance novel. It’s also the first published full-length novel by Hillsboro resident Sarah Kay Moll.
The city recently posted the complete list of concerts at The Walters this year, but there’s no quick way to hear a little bit of every artist. Until now.
Laika is a stop motion animation company based right here in Hillsboro, famous for movies like Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings. The detail in these films is remarkable, all the more so when you realize everything is physically made by someone right here in town. Eden Dawn, writing for the Portland Monthly, profiled their costum designer earlier this week. It’s a great read with a lot of great photos. Laika costume designer Deborah Cook chats about 17-inch-tall puppets the way most people reminisce about old friends. “I love the Sisters. There’s an elegance to them,” she says of the terrifyingly beautiful villains in the Hillsboro stop-motion animation studio’s 2016 hit, Kubo and the Two Strings. “Their faces are[…]