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Books

Bruce Springsteen Coming to Powell’s Books

The Boss is Portland bound to promote his new book, and tickets for the bookstore event go on sale this week.

09/13/2016 By Fiona McCann

B-Sides

Music Columnist Casey Jarman Takes His Nephew on a Tour of Portland

And tries to show the 14-year-old how live shows are a portal to a better world.

09/13/2016 By Casey Jarman

The Essentials

Blind Pilot + Weird Portland Stories: October’s Pop Culture Hot List

The book, gallery show, and concerts you can’t miss this month

09/13/2016 By Fiona McCann

Theater

A Portland Company Airs Ireland’s New Plays—and Dark Past

For years, Irish women toiled in church-run laundries. This October, Corrib Theatre puts the drama onstage.

09/13/2016 By Rebecca Jacobson

DIY Culture

Portland’s Indie Print Mecca Must Move—Again. Can the IPRC Survive?

Faced with quadruple rent, the beloved DIY institution is on the quest for a new home.

09/13/2016 By Fiona McCann

Television

Can a Twin Peaks Revival Make the Northwest Mysterious Again?

David Lynch goes back into the night.

09/13/2016 By Margaret Seiler

Dispatch

Who Will Be Crowned the World’s Greatest Tetris Player?

This month, the classic game’s most brilliant, crazy-dedicated competitors—including local phenom Terry Purcell—vie for international supremacy in Portland’s Tetris World Championship.

09/13/2016 By Fiona McCann

PoMo Picks

Top Things to Do This Weekend: Sept 8–11

The inaugural Portland Black Music Festival, a slew of new plays, the return of comedian Shane Torres, and a pop-up art museum at Pioneer Courthouse Square—put your weekend pants on.

09/08/2016 By Rebecca Jacobson, Kailla Coomes, Michelle Porter, and Fiona McCann

Books

Who's Coming to Wordstock? Literary Arts Reveals the 2016 Lineup

Plus six new venues for Portland’s annual book festival.

09/08/2016 By Fiona McCann

Theater

What Can This Playwright’s Story Say about Guns in America?

In The Gun Show, Oregonian E. M. Lewis digs into five very personal—and political—tales.

09/07/2016 By Rebecca Jacobson

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Sodium Sculptures

Is Baker City Home to the World's Weirdest Art Show?

For a decade, Eastern Oregon's Great Salt Lick Contest has auctioned off surreal sculptural blocks of livestock-gnawed sodium. It's goofy—but is it also art?

09/06/2016 By Marisa Russell

The Long Play

PODCAST: Five Local Writers on Place, Poetry, and Old Portland

Fiction writers Margaret Malone and David Shafer are joined by poets Samiya Bashir, Anis Mojgani, and Elyse Fenton to read their work and talk about Portland as inspiration.

09/01/2016 By Fiona McCann

PoMo Picks

Top Things to Do This Weekend: Sept 1–4

Fireworks and Tchaikovsky. A "truth booth" video confessional. Ages and Ages in a hometown show. A century-spanning collection of black art. Ready to send summer out, Portland?

09/01/2016 By Rebecca Jacobson and Kailla Coomes

Music

September: A Month of Portland Concerts in 20 Songs

From icons like Art Garfunkel and Boyz II Men to plenty of new blood, here's a 20-track playlist to guide you through Portland’s live music acts this September.

08/31/2016 By Michelle Porter

MUSIC

Listen to Loch Lomond's New Track Right Here Right Now

The stalwarts of Portland's music scene are back with a new album, a Mississippi Studios show, and this brand-new track. Listen up, PDX.

08/30/2016 By Fiona McCann

FASHION NEWS

Project Runway Snags Another Portlander

Portland's Sarah Donofrio will make her Runway debut September 15.

08/30/2016 By Eden Dawn

PoMo Picks

Top Things to Do This Weekend: Aug 25–28

Dance tango in the park, jam to Y La Bamba on the roof, catch some beat-fueled Shakespeare, and head to Hawthorne for a street party. August, we're sending you out in style.

08/25/2016 By Rebecca Jacobson and Lisa Dunn

New Sounds

Rock Out the Last Days of Summer with This Brand-New Low Culture Track

The punk rockers (and recent Portland transplants) drop their second album, Places to Hide, on September 9. But you can listen to a sneak-peek track right here, right now.

08/24/2016 By Fiona McCann

Film Festival

Portland Film Festival's Time-Traveling Mad Scientist

Neil Stryker and the Tyrant of Time hits the Portland Film Festival next week. We caught up with its local creators to hear about goblins and Star Trek and sci-fi—oh my!

08/24/2016 By Michelle Porter

Film

Four Films by Portland Teenage Girls Hit the Big Screen

Sex trafficking. Black girls in Portland. LGBTQ safe spaces. Women street artists. This Sunday, local teenage girls screen the documentaries they spent the summer making.

08/24/2016 By Fiona McCann

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