November 8, 2025Ariella-Sophie Sternberg
At an open house and marketplace at the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde's museum, artists weave a story that carries traditional skills and values into the modern world.
November 8, 2025K.B. Dixon
As the Portland Book Festival and its visiting writers move into high gear, photographer K.B. Dixon portrays 15 homegrown winners of Oregon Book Awards.
November 7, 2025Bob Hicks
Amy Lewin will oversee the Oregon Arts Commission and Oregon Cultural Trust, and will be a part of Business Oregon's leadership team.
November 7, 2025Jim Redden
Arts & cultural leaders gather to plan a strategy for greater funding from the Oregon Legislature for arts, culture, heritage and humanities, aiming for the 2027 session.
November 7, 2025Jim Flint
Ashland to host its first-ever Sarcasm Festival Dec. 5–7 as a host of comedians converge on Shakespeare territory and aim for audiences' funny bones.
November 7, 2025Amanda Waldroupe
The former Portlander's new book is both a memoir and a tutorial on the craft of writing.
November 6, 2025Marc Mohan
Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, and LaKeith Stanfield, Lynne Ramsay's first feature film since 2017 depicts a woman's frenzied descent into psychosis.
November 6, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
In which we consider the problem of “overproduction of cultural goods” in the context of encouraging you to touch grass with Portugal. The Man, Ural Thomas and the Pain, Nasalrod, Madeline Ross, Oregon East Symphony, Metropolitan Youth Symphony, Wonderly, and the Low Bar Chorale.
November 6, 2025Angela Allen
An interview with the British-Chinese composer — commissioned by the recently formed trio of pianist Gloria Chien, clarinetist Anthony McGill, and mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron — ahead of the trio's upcoming Chamber Music Northwest concert.
November 6, 2025Jim Redden
The popular Portland-based variety show, broadcast by public radio stations across the nation, is caught in the federal squeeze of public broadcasting and needs to raise $150,000 as the first step in a turnaround campaign.
November 6, 2025Amy Wang
In a nearly sold-out Portland event, Harris tells the audience, “Our democracy relies on our willingness to fight for it.”
November 6, 2025Lori Tobias
The theme of the community theater’s next season is “America the Beautiful?” And, yes, the question mark is intentional.
November 6, 2025Linda Ferguson
Review: The world premiere at 21ten Theatre of Sue Mach’s play filling in the 16-year gap in Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" uses fantasy and whimsy to explore real-life woes.
November 5, 2025Charles Rose
Friends After Good Sound are a newcomer to Portland’s experimental music scene. They are a collective of young, queer composers and performers that exclusively play works composed for them by…
November 5, 2025Raylee Heiden
November may be short on daylight but it is full of bright and joyful art exhibits and events including the grand opening of Portland Art Museum's Rothko Pavilion.
November 5, 2025Caitlin Nolan
As it enters its 20th season, the company brings back its very first show, Craig Wright's "Recent Tragic Events," for another go-around with original director Scott Yarbrough.
November 5, 2025Jim Redden
Despite opposition based partly on a higher tax rate and a critical city audit, the measure passes, guaranteeing open parks and parks-run arts programs.
November 5, 2025Amy Leona Havin
The founder of Freedom Reads, a nonprofit that puts libraries in prisons, says "sometimes one book will change your life.”
November 5, 2025Fran Gardner
Vang uses the saola — a gazelle-like creature hunted for eons by the Laotian Hmong — to braid strands of history, memory, ecology, and hope.
November 4, 2025Marc Mohan
Oregon's most prominent film festival returned for its 22nd year with panel discussions, social events, and more than 100 movies from around the globe.
November 4, 2025Linda Ferguson
Former festival producers are spreading their roots and wings this month with new and revised productions. Plus: Season openers from Third Rail Rep and Corrib Theatre.
November 4, 2025Daryl Browne
Two of Portland’s most respected contemporary musical arts organizations joined forces at Benson Auditorium for their portion of Oregon Symphony’s ongoing “Sounds Like Portland Festival.”
November 4, 2025Lorin Wilkerson
The women’s vocal ensemble sang music by Holst, Pärt, Reich, Carol J. Jones, Joanne Metcalfe, Olivia Sparkhall, and Shruthi Rajasekhar, on texts from Julian of Norwich and the Rig Veda to Pirkei Avot and the Psalms.
November 4, 2025Amy Leona Havin
The Spokane writer talks about journalism, paranoia, and being a hopeful satirist.
November 4, 2025Laura Grimes
The city's legendary literary reputation goes full stop for the annual book festival, and ArtsWatch will have the stories to match.
November 3, 2025Amy Wang
The National Geographic podcaster and author’s diving journey led to an exploration of her identity as a Black American descended from Africans seized by slave traders.
November 2, 2025David Sarasohn
The Harvard professor and prolific author argues that the daunting odds against amendment have prompted reformers to work through the courts or legislation.
November 1, 2025Bob Hicks
The teen winners each get a $1,000 scholarship and will perform with professional musicians in the chatterPDX Sunday musical series.
November 1, 2025Laura Grimes
We have some new features in store for the next two months to celebrate the season of giving and thanks.
October 31, 2025Jim Redden
The Trump Administration's assault on arts, culture, and the humanities has hit arts groups hard in the pocketbook. The fight for free expression could end up in the Supreme Court.
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