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Hopes for revival after a beloved neighborhood movie house burns; a crime movie pays off; small gems to stream from student filmmakers.
August is festival season in the Pacific Northwest. Two to watch for: Portland Homowo & Twins Festival, Washougal Art Festival.
Maryhill Museum’s “Exquisite Gorge II” throws a party. Who is and isn’t getting ahead in the ballet world. Geezer Gallery gets a new home. A Portland artist’s child faces a health crisis.
Street art abounds on the city’s walls – sometimes sanctioned, sometimes not. Is it time for Portland to join the “Free Walls” movement?
A journey through the Portland Art Museum’s fierce and piercing show of work by photographers of color about the city’s 2020 racial justice protests.
Artists Brenda Mallory, Arvie Smith, and John Houck are named to this year’s fellowships, which come with a $35,000 award.
… and as a bright and shiny Saturday fades into evening, food and art and crafts and celebrations of the many cultures of Washington County, too.
A surge in cases causes cancellations and postponements of events. Plus: The NEA looks at artists in the workplace; summer concerts in a barn; at museums, free is a very good price.
From the father of modern Ukraine literature to the missing statues in Portland’s Park Blocks, a battle brews over history and the stories we tell.
Matthew Dennison’s paintings explore the divide between the natural and human worlds, and NW Children’s Theater finds a home smack in the center of the Cultural District.
Carley, 72, was a guiding force for the Portland Black theater company for 40 years and a deeply admired figure in the city’s arts and nonprofit worlds.
The festival, which starts Thursday, includes musical chestnuts as well as concerts benefiting Ukrainian relief and “Ourland,” a modern, dystopian opera.
The musical theater company opens a $3.4 million expansion; Lake Oswego welcomes a weekend arts festival and an Ed Carpenter sculpture.
McMenamins 39th birthday beer is actually an IPA, but its
ingredients include a long swig of West Coast history.
The museum, a thriving cultural hub on the Oregon coast, is more than ever asking its audience to consider how the past shapes the future.
After a two-year Covid layoff, the big LGBTQ+ celebration is returning to Waterfront Park. Photographer K.B. Dixon shows us what we’ve been missing.
The Portland and New York producer wins his fourth Tony Award, for the revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical “Company.”
The versatile actor moves into the top seat at The Actors Conservatory. Plus: Wade McCollum’s return, openings, closings.
Listening back to Oregon’s return to live choral concerts.
Rounding up the unusual suspects, from a beloved artist’s auction to the Britt Festival, a big museum acquisition, a hoot of a concert, a rare poetic collaboration, and contemporary Jewish art.
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