The tale of a 17-year-old riding the train weekdays from Gresham to Hillsboro is an entrancing read, full of teenage trauma and yearning.
June 12, 2025David Bates
In its pilot year, a juried show of work by eight young artists explores issues of gender, sexuality, and being in the world as a physical body.
June 12, 2025Kristin Thiel
Through decades of transitions, the 100-year-old space in Northeast Portland has remained at the heart of the community, even while navigating financial challenges, a pandemic, and even ghosts.
June 8, 2025Martha Ullman West
After 46 years as artistic director of Eugene Ballet, Pimble is handing leadership to longtime company members Jennifer Martin and Suzanne Haag. For Pimble and Eugene, it's been a rich and rewarding near-half-century – and more to come.
June 4, 2025David Bates
Seminar students combine synthesized and acoustic music to accompany stories ranging from a rite of spring to a rocket-piloting dog.
May 30, 2025Jim Flint
While the current season continues through October, the Ashland festival announces a sweeping 2026 lineup of magic, music, and the messiness of being human.
May 29, 2025Amy Leona Havin
Summer arrives with a week of bookstore events and appearances by Karen Russell, Bill Ayers, Jane Kirkpatrick, and queer storytellers.
May 20, 2025Dee Moore
In 1950 a photo of a possible UFO hovering in the Yamhill County sky swept the nation. In the 21st century, space-visitor wannabes strut their stuff once a year in celebration.
May 19, 2025Prudence Roberts
In 'Underdone Potato', an expansive exhibition at the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, Grabner continues her meditations on craft and daily life. Ham tins, jam jars, and cereal boxes all make an appearance.
May 17, 2025David Bates
More than 200 people gathered at the Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg to hear writers read their work appearing in the 32nd annual anthology.
May 17, 2025Jim Flint
The Jazz in the Vineyard series brings guitarists Mimi Fox and Derek Gripper, plus the Marcos Silva Quintet, to Ashland's Grizzly Peak Winery stage beginning May 25.
May 16, 2025Lori Tobias
The club, which offers an egalitarian welcome to artists ranging from painters to needleworkers to gourd-crafters, is celebrating its 75th anniversary.
May 13, 2025Jean Zondervan
The two dances, both choreographed by Toni Pimble, mark the end of Pimble's almost half-century as the Eugene company's co-founder, artistic director, and creative force.
May 12, 2025Lori Tobias
The poet, a MacArthur “genius” grant and National Book Award winner, has made her signature project to connect poetry to the natural world via installations in national parks.
May 12, 2025Jim Flint
The symphony needed a truly grand piano. A stunning Steinway D in a New York high-rise needed to spread its wings. Now in Oregon, the big bird prepares for its debut at Medford’s Craterian Theater in a week-long "Pianopalooza."
May 9, 2025David Bates
The pandemic put the daylong workshop into rebuilding mode, but students at this year’s event at Woodburn High School emerged jazzed by the power of story.
May 5, 2025David Bates
The appearance by the poet and memoirist is part of the school's “Learning Across Boundaries” program, which also includes a literary and visual art display.
May 4, 2025Jim Flint
With robust audiences and several hit films, this year's lively festival climbed out of the pandemic-years slump. Coming in 2026: AIFF's 25th anniversary celebration.
May 1, 2025Lori Tobias
The Portland artist and author will be at Powell’s Books on May 10, followed by visits to Cloud and Leaf in Manzanita, and A Sometimes Gallery in Portland.
April 30, 2025Amy Leona Havin
Also this month: Amanda Knox tells her story, trans nature writing, journalists on Asian Pacific America, mountain rescue, and many poets.
April 28, 2025Amy Wang
Other winners at Monday night's ceremony include poet Charity E. Yoro, nonfiction authors Rebecca Clarren and Jaclyn Moyer, writers for young readers Anne Broyles and Makiia Lucier, and playwright Brianna Barrett.
April 27, 2025Jim Flint
The company, which features many current and former Oregon Shakespeare Festival actors, draws a loyal and growing audience for contemporary plays in the heart of Shakespeare territory.
April 25, 2025Charles Rose
Nine years on, the local non-profit benefits the electronic music community with open houses, workshops, jam sessions, and a synthesizer lending program.
April 23, 2025Lori Tobias
The 10th edition of the publication will accept written and art submissions from those with "strong connections" to the North Oregon Coast starting May 1.
April 20, 2025Richard W. Etulain
The historian’s first work, published in 1938, recounts lives that consisted of “booze, bawds, battle, and plenty of timber.”
April 20, 2025Friderike Heuer
In the studio with the textile artist as she creates "River Stories," an abstract "map" in yarn of the Columbia River, set to open in June at the Columbia Gorge Museum.
April 19, 2025Brian Libby
The photographer and curator, half a world away from her native Russia, explores a deep, ongoing relationship with wilderness.
April 17, 2025Lori Tobias
The tiny building when the beloved Newport artist worked will be reconstructed at the preserve, giving the arts program the home base it has lacked.
April 15, 2025Amy Wang
Townsley, longtime reporter for Portland-area community newspapers, will launch her first novel April 22 at Broadway Books.
April 15, 2025Dee Moore
Craig's woven basketry at the Linfield Art Gallery rekindles a fading heritage, blending contemporary methods with the traditions and meanings of ancestral ways.
