Arts & Culture

Concert Review

20 Years In, Modest Mouse Floats Different, but Floats Nevertheless

A Rev Hall anniversary show celebrating the band’s biggest album was a time machine to 2004, for better or worse.

11/11/2024 By Jordan Michelman

Books

A Guide to Loving Trash

A new memoir collects trash—as a class, artistic medium, and societal nuisance—into a manual for empathy.

11/08/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Things to Do

Getting Lost with Chris Marker

Also: Jeremy Okai Davis paints Black performance, and other things to do in town this week.

11/07/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Album Review

Haley Heynderickx’s Seed of a Seed Is Worth the 6-Year Wait

The Portland singer-songwriter confronts a self fractured by fame in her first album since achieving it.

11/01/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Things to Do

The Portland Book Festival Turns 10

Also: Christine Sinclair plays her final match, and other things to do in town this week.

10/31/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

The Art World

Julian Gaines Is Bringing Jet Magazine to the Museum

After a nearby fire shut down the painter’s gallery show, his tribute to the influential Black magazine’s civil rights era moves to PAM.

10/21/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Reading Ahead

The Most Anticipated Book Events in Portland Fall 2024

Ta-Nehisi Coates is coming, the Portland Book Festival is almost here, and the city’s small presses are printing the next generation’s debuts.

10/15/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Au Musée

Getting Handsy with Monet’s Water Lilies at PAM

Stripping unwanted varnish gives the Impressionist masterpiece new life, and peels back some of the painting’s intimidating context.

10/14/2024 By Matthew Trueherz Photography by Jason Hill

Art Review

A Picture of Fame: Paul McCartney’s Beatlemania Photos at PAM

Recently uncovered snapshots from 1964 give an intimate look at the moment the Beatles became the world’s first global celebrities.

10/08/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Performing Arts

Portland Theater and Dance Shows to Catch This Fall and Winter

On and off Broadway, the upcoming season promises holiday camp, cupcakes, election dramaturgy, and a Harlem braid shop.

10/04/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

TBA

The Time-Based Art Festival Is 21. How’s It Looking?

Our editors recap PICA’s beloved festival, with all its glistening torsos, humor and rage, and lightsabers and tassels.

10/04/2024 By Matthew Trueherz and Rebecca Jacobson

Cinema

Where to Watch Horror Movies on the Big Screen in Portland This Halloween

The city’s classic theaters are ready to bring a chill to your October.

10/02/2024 By Conner Reed and Matthew Trueherz

Stage Fright

Live Nation and AEG Are Racing to Build Portland’s First ‘Small Arenas’

The world’s two largest music presenters partnered with local groups to open the city’s first midsize venues. Is there room for both?

09/30/2024 By Sam Pape Illustrations by Matthew Billington

Photobook

Protest City Photographer Rian Dundon’s Next Project Is a Quieter Ride

Post-divorce and post-COVID, the intimate photos in Dundon’s Passenger distill Portland’s normalized strife.

09/25/2024 By Matthew Trueherz Photography by Rian Dundon

Booktopia

With New HQ, the City’s Literary Heart (Finally) Finds a Permanent Physical Form

Literary Arts’ expansive Southeast building will house a bookstore, café and bar, and all-ages community resources.

09/18/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Q&A

Mostly True Stories: Chelsea Bieker on Her Novel ‘Madwoman’

“I wanted to write this zany book about motherhood and wellness powders,” she says. “And then it turned into this much deeper thing.”

09/17/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Author Events

Portland Book Festival Announces 2024 Lineup

Richard Powers, Renée Watson, Ani DiFranco, and Danez Smith are among this year’s 80+ authors.

09/12/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Picture Book

Carson Ellis Finds Her Past in an Old Portland Warehouse

New paintings illustrate a 20-year-old diary in the artist’s latest book, recounting her first week in town, falling in love, and reading Dylan Thomas aloud.

09/10/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Q&A

Oh, Rose’s Olivia Rose Has a Lot of Problems Still

Living in Olympia while the rest of her band lives in Portland isn’t one of them.

09/09/2024 By Brooke Jackson-Glidden

Music Preview

The Biggest Portland Concerts of Fall 2024

Winter is on the way, but so is Billie Eilish.

09/06/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

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