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ARCHITECTURE
The symbolic designation could save the controversial 56-year-old stadium from the wrecking ball.
06/10/2016 By Lisa Dunn
PODCAST
Chef Soleil Ho and writer Zahir Janmohamed launched Racist Sandwich to give voice to people of color in the local food industry.
06/08/2016 By Rebecca Jacobson
DESIGN
Turn-of-the-century advertisements get new life.
06/07/2016 By Marty Patail
THE LONG PLAY
The writer and former Live Wire host logged 28 first dates in a year, all entered on her Excel spreadsheet. She dishes on the data-paved road to love.
06/01/2016 By Fiona McCann With Sika Stanton
FESTIVAL
At the Vanport Mosaic Festival, former residents of what was once Oregon's second-largest city—destroyed by a 1948 flood—tell their stories.
05/26/2016 By Rebecca Jacobson
THE BIG CATCH
Oregon’s coastal waters teem with unique seafood. So why isn’t it ending up in our restaurants?
05/23/2016 By Ramona DeNies
BRIGHT LIGHTS
Denis Hayes will speak Monday, arguing that Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver can green the world.
05/20/2016 By Randy Gragg
HISTORY
The state-of-the-art road was designed to make Oregon “the playground of America.”
05/19/2016
MUSIC
The process was, at times, “excruciating.”
05/19/2016 By Fiona McCann
HIDDEN DEPTHS
Mike Malone came across a hidden gorge near Mount Jefferson. But can you really “discover” a place anymore?
05/19/2016 By Leah Sottile Illustrations by Michael Byers
LONG STORY SHORT
The 39-year-old talks long swims, jellyfish, and brain tongue.
05/19/2016 By Zach Dundas
MOBILE MEALS
A Tigard-based nonprofit sets out to improve nutrition in remote Cambodian villages.
05/19/2016 By Marty Patail
DISPATCH
Without their 10,000-square-foot Odditorium in Northwest Portland, would the band have become elder statesmen of this city’s music scene?
05/19/2016 By Aaron Scott
The pursuit of a shadowy founding father winds deep into Portland’s Deadwood days.
05/19/2016 By Leah Sottile
TELEVISION
We asked the Portland native the important questions. And also how she looked so sparkly.
05/17/2016 By Katherine Berman
MODERN LOVE
Like everything, we do romance our own way in this town.
04/22/2016 Edited by Fiona McCann By Courtenay Hameister, Marty Patail, Rebecca Jacobson, Kelly Clarke, and Ramona DeNies
THE NUMBERS
Good for fetishists. Bad for 20-something women.
04/22/2016 By Ramona DeNies
ESSAY
Former Live Wire host Courtenay Hameister plays the numbers game.
04/22/2016 By Courtenay Hameister
PROFILE
“There’s not a lot of people of color in comics that aren’t green or purple,” the Portlander says.
04/22/2016 By Fiona McCann
A look at the greatest, wildest food writer of his generation.
04/22/2016 By Nigel Duara
Spring 2026
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