On The Town

Trade Routes

Leach has made Portland part of a global marketplace. Here’s a sampling of 30 works she has imported and exported to and from the Rose City.

07/22/2011

Culturephile

Global Canvas

Connected the wider art world to Portland—and vice versa.

07/22/2011 By Randy Gragg

Mudroom

The Perfect Party: August 2011

People we’d most like at our dinner table this month.

07/22/2011

indier-than-thou

7 PDX Pop Picks

07/21/2011 By Anne Adams

An Appendix

Eat Outside: Off the Eaten Path

Favorite alfresco meals from select Portland neighborhoods.

07/21/2011

gallery

A Movable Metal Menagerie

Werks Gallery hosts intricate, interactive animal sculptures hewn from spare parts.

07/20/2011 By Anne Adams

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My Mind Is Like an Open Meadow

See for yourself: it’s as stunning as everyone says.

07/18/2011 By Anne Adams

promo pile gold

Jay Clarke’s Instrumental Impulses

The man who plays with Dolorean and Grails and records as "Ash Black Bufflo," waxes philosophical about an epic record that took him 5 years to make.

07/18/2011 By Anne Adams

gallery review

Slideshow: July Gallery Goods

A poignant comment on Lady Liberty, art nouveau made new again, and a water-snake lies in wait.

07/11/2011 By Anne Adams

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Slideshow: Mississippi Street Fair

07/11/2011

Festival Photos

Slideshow: Mississippi Street Fair

Eats, arts, and musical mayhem

07/11/2011 By Griffin Funk

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Slideshow: July Gallery Goods

07/11/2011

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Slideshow: First Thursday

07/07/2011

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Slideshow: First Thursday

Twinkling buildings, boxing-gloved broads, and a man in a shipping crate.

07/07/2011 By Anne Adams

gallery

Preview: Box Shipment #2

Artist examining trauma travels more than 2,000 miles locked in a crate that couldn’t hold your refrigerator.

07/07/2011 By Daniel Mollet

blues news

Slideshow: Waterfront Blues Festival

125 performances, 4 days, and $726,000 raised, "because no one should be hungry."

07/06/2011 By Griffin Funk

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Slideshow: Waterfront Blues Festival

07/06/2011

broadway

Review: Mary Poppins

5 magic moments, 5 child-pleasers…and a caution to Poppins purists.

07/03/2011 By Anne Adams

news flash

Casting for a Wild Flag Video & Portlandia

Carrie Brownstein (possibly) wants you.

07/01/2011 By Anne Adams

bard-watching

Summer Shakespeare: An Abridged Field Guide

07/01/2011 By Anne Adams