Free ways to stay cool in and around Portland
Summer has just barely begun, and already Portland has seen record-breaking temperatures. With the rest of the season predicted to be warmer than average, the risk of overheating is high. While this time of year gives Oregonians an anticipated break from nearly constant overcast skies, it also can come with some very hot days. Staying…
Portland Pride Play Festival spotlights LGBTQ+ theatre talent
A tale of gay men vying for a newly deceased king’s throne. A comedy about a young Jewish woman coming out to her family on the first night of Hanukkah. Siblings reuniting at a funeral forced to hash out childhood conflicts and family history. The Portland Pride Play Festival offers stories of unexpected circumstances and universal…
Yakama Nation celebrates Pacific lamprey at Willamette Falls event for the 450 million-year-old fish
At about 450 million years old, lamprey evolved when the first dinosaurs didn’t yet exist and Pangaea wouldn’t form for about another 150 million years. But within a couple hundred years of Euro-American settlers arriving in the Columbia River Basin and building industrial infrastructure like dams, everything has changed. Pacific lamprey populations are now threatened…
July: Arts for All events calendar
Everyone’s trying to stay cool this summer, literally and figuratively. Air conditioning is incentive enough to go see plays, movies, dance shows, concerts and visual art exhibitions across the Portland area, though naturally it pays to know how best to take in that sweet AC — that’s arts and culture, baby. The Regional Arts and…
