Arts & Culture
The annual Portland Book Festival settled back into the comfort of Portland—and the Portland Art Museum—just in time for its Nov. 8–13 gathering. This year’s itinerary was loaded with the…
After his Jacqueline Kennedy biopic Jackie debuted to thunderous critical applause in 2016, it was inevitable that Pablo Larraín would eventually pursue a follow-up project. The Chilean director is no…
The version of Portland, Oregon that Kevin Sampsell came to in 1992 was a lot smaller than the city we know today. “It was a pretty small town in…
After her tenants left in April 2020 during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sol Cejas’ rental property in Vancouver, Washington, sat empty. It wouldn’t stay that way…
Charting from the ancient days of penny arcade cabinets to the modern era, decades of game designers have carefully deliberated and pined over the concept of punishment in video games….
When Adam Milne released his debut batch of craft hard seltzer, he didn’t completely know what to expect. The Portland-based brewer and owner of Old Town Brewing had been working…
At first glance, the French lithograph print was deceptively simple: a pink-on-pink room with a massive chandelier dominating the foreground, framed by a wall of floral wallpaper behind it. The…
Unless you were asleep for the better part of the early 2000’s, you probably remember the Twilight series. Maybe you remember it as the sole topic to occupy the high…
The first thing to strike a casual viewer looking at the works slated for exhibition at the Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery’s Fall Show is the variety: hundreds of…
After more than a year-long hiatus, Portland Center Stage at The Armory welcomed audiences back to the theater with a one-woman story of reflection, healing and dual-portraiture in Frida…A Self…
As the crisp weather of the autumn front rolls in over the Pacific Northwest, we all find ourselves settling into the habits and comforts of the fall season. For some,…
