Liz Cheney on Jan. 6 and beyond
Speaking to a Hatfield Lecture Series audience about her book “Oath and Honor,” the former congresswoman talks about Putin, China, Israel/Hamas, Trump’s “Big Lie” and more.
Speaking to a Hatfield Lecture Series audience about her book “Oath and Honor,” the former congresswoman talks about Putin, China, Israel/Hamas, Trump’s “Big Lie” and more.
Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández talks in a Hatfield Lecture Series program about the “magonistas” dissidents who paved the path for the ouster of the iron-fisted President Porfirio Díaz.
The pronk quartet returns to live music, Oregon Symphony celebrates the “Rhapsody” centennial, Grammy-winner Cann performans a recital of Black women composers for PPI, Eugene Concert Choir releases their “Black is Beautiful” CD, and the Albina Community Archive goes live.
The Albina Music Trust celebrates its trove of recordings, photos, memorabilia, articles, and oral histories with a searchable archive and a Feb. 3 release party at Oregon Historical Society.
Settle into winter with a holiday book fair, a new cookbook from a Northwest Jewish kitchen, an author appearance by Henry Winkler, and a solstice story time.
Historian Jonathan Eig talks to a Portland audience about his intimate portrait of MLK Jr.’s American journey in “King: A Life,” the first biography of the human rights crusader in 40 years.
The awards to Oregon arts and cultural groups and county and tribal cultural coalitions are a bright spot in a difficult financial year.
Peniel Joseph tells an Oregon Historical Society audience about the nation’s three phases of Reconstruction and the continuing quest for racial equity.
The noted historian traces the “great environmental awakening” of the mid-20th century for a Hatfield Lecture Series audience.
In an Oregon Historical Society lecture, author and historian Mai Ngai traces the legacy of racially motivated mistreatment of Chinese workers in the U.S. and British colonies.
NPR’s Nina Totenberg tells an Oregon Historical Society audience about her book “Dinner with Ruth” and her long friendship with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
A touring exhibit at the history museum traces the rise of a Black-based American popular music of liberation.
Susannah Mars at Wilf’s, a little Batucada samba, Imago’s “ZooZoo” menagerie, M&F “Santaland” nostalgia at the history museum.
This month features author readings, book release parties, a festive holiday storytime, the return of The Moth Mainstage, and Patti Smith at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
Johnson and Congress’s great achievement of almost 60 years ago is under attack, the noted historian tells an Oregon Historical Society audience.
Famed historians David McCullough and Doris Kearns Goodwin are the stars of Daryl Browne’s latest crossword puzzle.
How a small design firm has helped transform how we view our state’s ethnic and cultural legacies.
From housing crises to race in Portland, the Mosaic’s seventh annual festival remembering the Vanport Flood of 1948 brings the past into the present.
Looking back on a year of disruptions, passions, politics, cultural shifts, bright ideas, and fresh starts in Oregon arts.
A record-setting round of awards will help fund projects by 140 cultural organizations across Oregon.
Lindsay Costello’s monthly roundup of shows and events in October.
Lindsay Costello’s monthly roundup of not-to-miss shows and events for June.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Portland Oscar nod; Dawson Carr’s big day; dance dive; laureate speaks; big BRAVO.
Though each of the six pieces is contemporary — written in the late 20th and early 21st centuries — Geter chose somewhat established works as well as freshly minted ones…
ArtsWatch Weekly: History moves into the forefront, a new series on Indigenous resilience, film fest time.
As covid cases spike and Oregon orders new restrictions, museums are closing their doors again.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A culture clash over the past; a museum reopens; photos, films, books & sounds.
ArtsWatch Weekly: The doors reopen. Plus: Black & white in America, follow the money, is the “new normal” old?
The museums and library system join a cascade of cultural groups shutting down or canceling events.
As the U.S. cracks down on “Dreamers,” the Oregon Historical Society digs deep into the stories of new Americans.
Oregon’s brewing industry is robust and growing, with nearly 300 breweries, hundreds of pubs and taprooms, and legions of fans thirsty for its hoppy, craft-brewed beers. But all that great beer had to start somewhere, so it’s instructive to put that pint
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