How PHAME creates room for Portlanders with intellectual and developmental disabilities to produce, challenge and advance their art The audience responded with a resounding standing ovation when Aaron Hobson sang “Psycho Killer" at the Tomorrow Theat ...
6 Dec 2023 - Ellen Clarke
Portland's renowned Milagro Theatre seeks to uplift Latino culture and heritage through theater “Hope, Courage & Resilience” is the theme as Teatro Milagro, or Milagro Theatre, heads into its monumental 40th season, kicking off nine months of pro ...
20 Sep 2023 - Ellen Clarke
The storied Albina institution transferred to new ownership Sept. 1. New owners hope to push the arts space to new heights. A heat wave did not keep the smiles from people’s faces as they gathered at the Albina Arts Center in Northeast Portland to embra ...
6 Sep 2023 - Ellen Clarke
Local shows aim to create cost-inclusive spaces and embrace queer youth of all backgrounds to build community “The music industry is dead, and this is what’s real,” Dylan Widick, lead singer and bassist for local pop-punk band Edd Party, said. He was refe ...
9 Aug 2023 - Miles Silvey
New exhibit, ‘My Father’s Father’s Sister’ focuses on Shimkhin, a 19th-century Two-Spirit Atfalati Kalapuya healer When looking at your own history, who looks back? It could be someone just like you. A new exhibit at the Chachalu Cultural Museum in Grand ...
14 Jun 2023 - Melanie Henshaw
Ryan Dowd’s ‘The Librarian’s Guide to Homelessness’ offers guidance to workers whose job puts them in contact with people experiencing homelessness In his book, “ The Librarian’s Guide to Homelessness,” Ryan Dowd provides insight and practical tools for a ...
20 Jul 2018 - Topaz
Ijeoma Oluo's book is a tool for turning uncomfortable conversations into productive ones Ijeoma Oluo’s book “ So You Want to Talk About Race ” is a no-nonsense, straight-forward guide to understanding the complexities of race in America. Oluo covers ...
29 Jun 2018 - Lisa Edge
Her new book, 'Flyover Country,' is a collection of writings on systemic problems endemic in the Midwest "Flyover country” was never meant to be a flattering term. Middle America, lacking the wealth and sparkle of coastal cities, is viewed ...
8 Jun 2018 - Joanne Zuhl
BOOK REVIEW | The writer of 'The Once and Future Liberal' provides an elegantly concise how-we-got-here history I had thought the malaise of relentlessly focusing on identity was just me. That only I was feeling like an ant under a magnifying gl ...
1 Jun 2018 - Megan Wildhood