13+ hour, 42+ 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…...

21+ hour, 31+ 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, 10+ hour ago   (676+ words) Name: Oregon City Public Library Address: 606 John Adams St. Date of dedication: June 21, 1913 Size: 20,200 square feet. A 15,000-square-foot addition, completed in 2016, tripled the library’s size. Architectural style: American Renaissance, characterized by the building’s front columns. The addition, while a modern…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (889+ words) Suspend your disbelief for a moment. Shakespeare’s As You Like It is set in the Forest of Arden, which isn’t your typical woodland. Oak, olive and palm trees all grow in this fictional place with an incongruous population of down-home…...

5+ day, 18+ 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, 21+ hour ago   (730+ words) Why write fiction when real life is so fascinating? For young Daniel Dietz, then the older Daniel Dietz, the mysteries of life are explored and expounded in the pages of books. Not books that he reads, necessarily, but books that…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (851+ words) CULTURAL HUBS: An Occasional Series At the foot of his bed, Ari Harris and Peter LeClair, a husband-and-wife musical duo known as Moongate, set up for their concert, arranged by Swan Songs, an organization that provides private concerts to people…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1757+ words) From the sidewalk, there’s little to distinguish the Artist Mentorship Program’s drop-in center from its neighbors in Old Town Portland. Nestled between a sushi restaurant and convenience store at 16 N.W. Broadway, its facade is unremarkable, and its shades are…...

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, 21+ hour ago   (691+ words) In 2005, as Elissa Minor sat with her father following his surgery for brain cancer, her thoughts turned to her own life — one built on the foundation of generations of family dedicated to the Mormon Church. She was baptized in the…...