*No Dead White Guys at this Concert*

A forthcoming concert by female (feminist) composers is running this ad.  Mind you, it will play well here in Portland.  But, given the nature of music, is it false advertising?  Also, Portland has the 4th highest number of lesbians per capita in the US.  BUT also, it's the whitest large city per capita in the US.  How do you think they will do?

Good advertising = good advertising
Bad advertising = good advertising
Controversial advertising = good advertising

 
All right! No dead white guys.
Count me in.
Just a three hour drive to Portland and I can fend off the grim reaper for as long as the girls can keep the stage. 

bapu
Straummy nose his centerges.

You are 20% - 40% correct.
 
Well done good boy

BobF
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Portland is 76.1% white.
 
MyTown is 76.9% white, but MyTown isn't large.
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Portland is just a big small town! It has the tastes of the small towns in Western Oregon/Western Washington, because it doesn't know there is a world out there that has different music, arts, and some other differences. 
 
Always had that problem at the International Film Festival here ... all the folks run for all the Brittish and American films ... and for crying out loud, those will all come out on DVD, or show up in a stream service ... nooooooooooo ... you still ignore all the other films from nowhereville around the world, and many of those films are a treat and then some.
 
Typical Portland, and the Oregonian and Willamette Week are responsible for that mentality of no mentality whatsoever ... just plain boring and second rate and popular second rate stuff run by people that have no idea what they are doing except counting chips and dollars ... so very like that other place, I guess!

craigb
Yes, and chances are good she smokes a lot of what grows here. 
 
Let's just say they are NOT followers of Ayn Rand's Objectivism philosophies. 

Personally I'm totally done with non-objective girls (or non-objective anyone for that matter). Been out with a few in my time. What gets me is when you win an argument by using solid reason and they say "why do you always have to be right" as if it's a negative trait they'd prefer to iron out of you. I'm very lucky to be with a girl who appreciates logic now.

Promising "no dead white guys" will be there is like saying "no leprechauns". Concert, picnic or day at the beach, I think it's safe to predict neither will be showing up to interrupt the proceedings.

eph221
Mosh,
 
Oregon is gorgeous, but as you say it's very provincial.  The people are provincial.
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We do have beautiful trees mosh.  :D:D
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You're telling me? I only live across the river from Portland! It's why Craig doesn't even want a cup of java at that spend'y place!
 
Love this place, but its arts are ridiculous and the folks managing some of them are even worse. I keep hoping that folks like Craig, myself and others can stick together to better improve these things around here, but when separation and isolation is the idea and the mode (how Oregonian that is ... so no one knows you're smoking in the back door!) ... improving the arts is a joke. So the next Jazz festival will continue to have the same old crap it has had for 74 years! And no one knows anything or can say anything!

I stayed in a tree house in Oregon for a couple of days.