Arts & Culture

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Making a Scene

Gallery gal Elizabeth Leach has spent 25 years getting Portland’s art crowd up to speed.

02/13/2026 By Elizabeth Armstrong Moore

seeing things

Imani Perry and Keisha N. Blain celebrate Black history at the Schnitz

The Sleeping Beauty, and other events in town.

02/12/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

The Big Screen

The Movies We’re Actually Going To

Inventive and personal one-off screenings are bringing Portland back to the theater.

02/09/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

“America’s Game”

Chuck Klosterman’s Football Journeys into America’s Media-Addled Soul

The Portland author’s latest book unpacks football’s unique perch atop the flaming pyre of a dying monoculture.

02/06/2026 By Jordan Michelman

seeing things

An Exhibition Rehumanizing Portland’s Unhoused Population

Dance company Urban Bush Women, and other events in town.

02/05/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

seeing things

Things to Do in Portland This Week, January 2026

Author Sara Jaffe chases guitar noise at PICA, and other events in town.

01/29/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

gimme five

5 Oregon-Made Comics to Know

Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts’ Michael Rosen shares his essential list of superheroes, war journalism, and redrawn American classics.

01/26/2026 By Alex Frane

seeing things

45 Years of Elizabeth Leach Gallery

Also: 20 years of Typhoon, and other events in town this week.

01/22/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

Words with Friends

The Open Mic That Counts Amateurs and Award-Winning Authors as Regulars

One-Page Wednesdays, hosted by Portland novelist Emme Lund, feels like a public writers’ group.

01/22/2026 By Matthew Trueherz Illustrations by Stephan Dybus

Concerts

The Best Music Festivals in Portland and Across Oregon

Project Pabst, Pickathon, Aminé’s Edgefield party, and the Blues Fest are just a fraction of the state’s robust festival circuit.

01/20/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

Puck Yeah

Portland Is Thirsty for Heated Rivalry

The megahit Canadian show about gay hockey players has inspired trivia, wine pairings, and a growing number of dance parties.

01/15/2026 By Rebecca Jacobson

seeing things

Brooklyn Author Colm Tóibín Is at the Schnitz

An elegant art of numbers, and other events in town this week.

01/15/2026 By Matthew Trueherz and Alex Frane

Arts & Crafts

8 Low-Stakes Craft Classes and Workshops in Portland

Sew something. Cook something. Make some perfume. Feel human again.

01/13/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

seeing things

Mickalene Thomas’s Love Letter to Her Mother

4 Palestinian Poets, and other events in town this week.

01/08/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

For the Record

Remember How Everybody Was in Portlandia?

An incomplete list of the show’s celebrity cameos.

01/05/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

Television

15 Years Ago, Portlandia Told Portland Who It Was

Though it has undeniably shaped the city’s reputation, what exactly the show “did” to Portland is less cut-and-dried.

01/02/2026 By Matthew Trueherz Illustrations by Lisa Sheehan (Photo courtesy Chris Hornbecker/IFC)

Sing a Song

6 Very Different Karaoke Experiences Around Portland

Book a private room, share the spotlight with a stripper, or jam out with a real, live band.

12/26/2025 By Katherine Chew Hamilton and Margaret Seiler

arts & crafts

The Old-School Japanese Printer Bringing Portland Artists Offline

How an ’80s office printer called the Risograph became a zeitgeisty, analog tool for art prints.

12/23/2025 By Isabel Lemus Kristensen

Required Reading

Must-Visit Portland Indie Bookstores

Our list of more than 20 shops spotlighting the African diaspora and children’s books, sci-fi and fantasy, artist monographs, comics, and…yarn?

12/22/2025 By Matthew Trueherz

seeing things

Things to Do in Portland This Week, December 2025

Holcombe Waller's A Very George Michael Christmas, and other events in town.

12/18/2025 By Rebecca Jacobson

Portland Monthly

Arts & Culture

Making a Scene

Imani Perry and Keisha N. Blain celebrate Black history at the Schnitz

The Movies We’re Actually Going To

Chuck Klosterman’s Football Journeys into America’s Media-Addled Soul

An Exhibition Rehumanizing Portland’s Unhoused Population

Things to Do in Portland This Week, January 2026

5 Oregon-Made Comics to Know

45 Years of Elizabeth Leach Gallery

The Open Mic That Counts Amateurs and Award-Winning Authors as Regulars

The Best Music Festivals in Portland and Across Oregon

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