Features

ARTS

How Portland Center Stage ages its Clybourne Park stage 50 years

A 15-minute set change covers decades of gentrification.

03/22/2013 By Gino Cerruti

PORTLAND GLOSSARY

Word on the Street: Shambition

What Portlanders are saying—or should be.

03/22/2013

SCENE & HEARD

The Accidental Story of Louie Louie

How the Kingsmen created Portland's greatest classic rock hit.

03/22/2013 Edited by Zach Dundas

RAINMAKER: PROFILES IN PROFIT

TIE Oregon Fuels Portland Start-Ups

Nitin Rai gives local tech a kick in the pants.

03/22/2013 By Zach Dundas

NEWS

The Perfect Party April 2013

We gather the month's most fascinating Portland newsmakers.

03/22/2013

SPORTS

Can Portland's New Superstars Save Women's Soccer?

The Portland Thorns launch with Alex Morgan, Christine Sinclair, and high pressure.

03/22/2013 By Jonanna Widner

FEATURE

The Voracious Appetites of Chef Gregory Gourdet

Whether he’s cooking, running, or throwing parties for 400 of his closest food-world friends (or just eating ice cream), chef Gregory Gourdet’s appetites know few limits.

03/22/2013 By Kelly Clarke

PLANTWISE: EVENTS

The History of Portland's Lan Su Chinese Garden

Landscape architect Ben Ngan presents a visual and historical account of the design and creation of Portland's beloved Classical Chinese Garden

02/24/2013 By Kate Bryant

FEATURE

The New Shul

Can Synagogue Shaarie Torah survive in a new age of Portland Judaism?

02/22/2013 By Ketzel Levine

BACKPAGE

Save the Oregonian

Nine ways to rescue the state's oldest newspaper.

02/21/2013

ONE SENTENCE STORIES

2013’s Dumbest Crime Story—And More!

Micro-stories about Portland's karaoke scene, sugar babies, and more.

02/20/2013

HISTORY

Tom McCall's Way with Words

On the 100th anniversary of his birth, we let Oregon's most legendary governor speak for himself

02/20/2013 By Zach Dundas

PORTLAND GLOSSARY

Word on the Street: The Rides of March

What Portlanders are saying—or should be

02/20/2013

NEWS

Perfect Party March 2013

We gather the month's most fascinating Portland newsmakers around the table.

02/19/2013

NEWS

The Story of O

Can the Oregonian survive? We look to the newspaper's past for clues.

02/15/2013 By Marty Patail

EDITOR'S NOTE

Public Art & Debate

A look at Portland's newest public art project, Lead Pencil Studio's Inversion: Plus Minus, now rising in the Central Eastside.

02/15/2013 By Randy Gragg

Slideshow

Slide Show: Lead Pencil Studio

02/15/2013

WEB EXCLUSIVE

Slide Show: History of the Oregonian

Extra! Extra! We take a tour through the 163-year-old newspaper's tumultuous past.

02/15/2013

Article

The Lost Art of Handwriting

A Portland pair is on a quest to preserve our penmanship.

01/25/2013 By Tamara Feingold