Salt & Straw hosted just its first wedding in May, so the ice cream store has a lot of catching up to do if it aims to compete with the couples tally at Voodoo Doughnut, where it helps that the sweet treats are basically giant wedding bands.

Seattle set a light-rail ridership record during the men’s soccer World Cup, but in Portland we’re betting the five-week closure of a chunk of I-5 (which started September 11) will be MAX’s time to shine.

From both Greek and the river dialect of the Sahaptin language, Trogloraptor tulishpun does sound cool, but when we heard the new spider discovered in the Columbia Gorge had been given a name we were a little bummed it wasn’t Peter Parker.

We guess we don’t really mind that Portland City Council banned foie gras, since we probably couldn’t have afforded it anyway now that the council has also raised the Arts Tax.

Portland City Council approved a new policy over the winter allowing polyamorous people to sue over discrimination based on relationship structure, a major victory for everyone on Feeld. 

Forty years ago, Vern Tessio (Jerry O’Connell) asked his friends if they wanted to go see a dead body in the Oregon-filmed Stephen King adaptation Stand by Me, but the corpse couldn’t compete with one of cinema’s most notorious barf scenes.

The anticipated Pearl District steakhouse from Top Chef alum Brian Malarkey will have hemp-fed beef, a stripper pole in the bathroom, and a dining room he describes as a “psychedelic forest,” essentially a Portland restaurant Mad Libs.

The Upper Klamath was home to documented natural hatchings of Chinook salmon for the first time in over a century earlier this year, following the removal of Klamath River dams in 2024—a rare piece of good news floating downriver. 

Following his folk, rock, electric, country, roots, gospel, and Timothée Chalamet eras, we’re wondering what new vibe Bob Dylan is cooking up for his Edgefield gig with Lucinda Williams and John Doe in June.

Between the return of the Fire, kickoff of preprofessional soccer team the Cherry Bombs, and first pitch of Hillsboro-based professional softball team the Cascade, we’ve reached the golden age of women’s sports in Oregon.

Oregon geoscientists have started to harvest heat from “superhot rock” under the earth’s surface near places like the Newberry Volcano—the future of renewable energy, or an earthquake waiting to happen? 

Barring delays, the Broadway Bridge should reopen in April after a six-month closure to repair its bridge deck, which is good news for anyone hoping to reenact the climax of the 2008 thriller Untraceable.

We’re hustlin’ in our purple Lamborghinis to the Schnitz May 8 to see Rick Ross perform with the Oregon Symphony, because the chance of seeing “The Devil Is a Lie” performed with a full orchestra is a little too tempting to miss. 

On April 12, celebrate the 110th birthday of Beverly Cleary, famed Oregon author and creator of iconic chaos agent Ramona Quimby, by getting a bob and splashing in some mud puddles.