15+ hour, 19+ min ago   (939+ words) Neighborhoods around Portland are popping with portraits, furniture, murals and more. Portland has 20 plazas throughout the city — community spaces with public seating, activities and space for businesses — where neighbors can gather outside. Portland Bureau of Transportation and the Office of…...

23+ hour, 8+ min ago   (216+ words) A century after its dedication, Maryhill Museum is now well established as one of the foremost cultural centers in the Pacific Northwest, and while it shutters in November for the winter months, the museum will reopen for a second century…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1455+ words) Nearly six years after the Almeda and South Obenchain fires tore through Southern Oregon, the stories of the people who lived through them are being gathered for a new kind of telling — on stage. The $54,000 grant is part of $1 million…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1021+ words) The debate over how to return the state of Abraham Lincoln to the South Parks Blocks in Portland is heating up ahead of a Sept. 8 public forum on the question. The Lincoln statue was pulled off its pedestal during an…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (499+ words) Nobody knows what will happen to the first generation of kids raised on smartphones. How will screen time affect the development of their brains? How will A.I. alter the ways they navigate the physical (and digital) world? How severely will “the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (501+ words) Founded in 1997 by a group of fifteen volunteer artists, AITP was created with a simple but ambitious mission: “to create a quality venue for exceptional visual artists to share their work and build an interactive environment between artists and the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (399+ words) Nearly a year after the Cover to Cover reading I attended on November 4 (in conjunction with the 2025 Portland Book Festival) at Mother Foucault’s Bookshop to a standing-room-only crowd, I could feel, even without the poets’ physical presence, the energy, emotion…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (508+ words) NEWPORT — The Year of the Fire Horse has spurred five coastal artists to join in an exhibit inspired by an infrequent confluence in the Chinese zodiac. It happens once every 60 years and was believed in Japanese culture, where it is…...