December 7, 2025James Bash
Oregon Symphony’s Director of Classical Programming discusses everything from spreadsheets and contingency planning to catching the conducting bug at Yale and his early days schlepping timpani at New York’s 92nd Street Y.
December 6, 2025Lynn Darroch
The long-time Portland saxophonist moonlights every week with San Francisco tech company OpenAI.
December 5, 2025Brett Campbell
As its founding leader steps down after a decade, the Portland theatrical innovator celebrates its play development model with a two-play showcase this weekend and next — and a coming new model of artistic leadership.
December 5, 2025Jim Redden
At a time of increasing strife in the U.S., Oregon prepares to celebrate the nation's 250th birthday by recognizing both the positive and negative aspects of the country's history.
December 4, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
Holiday tidings, Christmas and otherwise, from ChatterPDX to Portland Baroque Orchestra’s “Messiah” to Christmas on the Oregon Coast and beyond.
December 4, 2025Marc Mohan
This week, an Oregon filmmaker tells the story of how her mother helped build the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and "Downton Abbey" and its ilk get an "Airplane"-style parody in "Fackham Hall."
December 4, 2025Raylee Heiden
December happenings at Oregon art venues include holiday sales, group shows, and multiple exhibitions that meditate on time. Raylee Heiden pulls together some highlights.
December 4, 2025Linda Ferguson
Stumptown Stages' colorful revival of Lionel Bart's classic 1960 musical version of Charles Dickens' novel of scoundrels and pickpockets is an exuberant delight.
December 3, 2025Angela Allen
Composer/librettist Jodi Goble and co-librettist Michael Ching’s WWII-era opera celebrates the Greatest Generation.
December 3, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
A photo essay featuring Pyxis Quartet and mousai REMIX, who recently performed Shaw’s complete string quartet music as part of the “Sounds Like Portland” festival.
December 3, 2025Darleen Ortega
Review: PassinArt continues its long tradition with a gorgeous and moving production of Langston Hughes's gospel songplay, this year at Alberta Abbey.
December 3, 2025Beth Sorensen
The future of Guardino Gallery and even the building it inhabits was up in the air for months after the passing of Donna Guardino, a Northeast Portland legend.
December 2, 2025Hannah Krafcik
With a fish cannon and other sculptural works, Sasha Fishman explores how humans relate to aquatic life and what aquatic life can tell us about fantasy.
December 2, 2025Jim Redden
The corporate giant created unauthorized fundraising pages for nonprofit groups in Oregon and across the U.S., keeping some of the money raised. Now, impacted groups are taking legal action.
December 2, 2025Linda Ferguson
Plus: Holiday shows, Northwest Theatre Workshop’s Founder’s Showcase, continuing shows, reading series celebrating William S. Gregory, theater news.
December 2, 2025Laura Grimes
As the day turns on the well-known Giving Tuesday, in these parts it’s known as Giving NewsDay. It’s a day to cheer on trusted local news, and the community members who power on to deliver information you can count on.
December 1, 2025Shannon M. Lieberman
The Oregon artist’s retrospective, on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene through January 11th, celebrates his deep connection with the land, artistic process, and vibrant color.
December 1, 2025Barbara Quinn
The murals, painted under a federal program for public art in 1936 at what was then a post office and is now a Bahá'i center, depict a dominant white culture and could be moved to another site that can put them in context.
November 30, 2025Amy Leona Havin
As the holiday season approaches, some book events arrive with tea and cookies – and one, at Mother Foucault's, with a forum on the nightmares of artificial intelligence.
November 30, 2025K.B. Dixon
A photographic tour: At what's left of the oldest fish-processing plant on the Columbia River, a museum tells the tale of long hours, arduous work, and millions of fish.
November 29, 2025Jamuna Chiarini
As holiday season shifts into high gear, Snow Queens and Sugar Plum Fairies trip the light fantastic with dancer/choreographers, costumed critters, and more.
November 28, 2025Darleen Ortega
Review: In Lauren Gunderson's stage adaptation, Louisa May Alcott plays a central role among her creations, bringing an old-favorite novel into the modern age.
November 28, 2025Dmae Lo Roberts
Dmae Lo Roberts' new podcast gets the lowdown from director Charles Grant and star La'Tevin Alexander on this year's Dickens classic onstage at Portland Playhouse.
November 28, 2025Dee Moore
In an exhibit at Salem's Bush Barn Art Center, the Scottish-born Portland artist expands a traditional home craft technique to create extraordinary nude portraits.
November 27, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
The violinist and teacher discusses his long, strange trip from son of a Philadelphia violin teacher to head of a concert rock band and teaching academy.
November 27, 2025Bob Hicks
On Thanksgiving Day, creating a bigger table for a more sustaining and convivial feast.
November 26, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: Benedict Cumberbatch plays a grieving widower in "The Thing with Feathers," and "WTO/99" chronicles the Battle of Seattle.
November 26, 2025James Bash
The conductor, teacher, violinist, and founder of Metropolitan Youth Symphony discusses his journey from Hungary – fleeing first Nazis and then Soviets – to Portland.
November 26, 2025
As the holiday season kicks into high gear, musician and Ukrainian folklorist Inna Kovtun highlights a winter festival, and an arts & farm festival bridges the urban/rural gap.
November 25, 2025Richard W. Etulain
Victor’s two-part book about the mountain man who helped form Oregon’s provisional government drew national attention.
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