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Soccer

The Portland Thorns 2024 Schedule Is Finally Here

Dunn decamped, Bixby has a baby on the way, and Menges migrated south, but Kling, Sinc, Weaver, Sauerbrunn, Smith, Moultrie, and the rest will kick off March 16.

01/25/2024 By Margaret Seiler

BUSINESS

Portland’s Only REI Store Closes for Good on February 1

But suburban shoppers, you’re in luck.

01/23/2024 By Rebecca Jacobson

Land Grab

Oregon's Biggest Landowner Sparks Controversy

The second-largest foreign landowner in the US, a Chinese billionaire, owns 198,000 acres in Oregon.

01/22/2024 By Zoe Sayler

Saving the World

This Is Oregon Scientists' Plan to Save the World

The radical proposal of Oregon State University researchers aims to avoid climate change via greater biodiversity and more forestlands—and a no-growth economy.

01/20/2024 By Zoe Sayler

Progress Report

What Does $400 Million Buy at Portland Libraries? Here's A Look.

The first of 19 renovated libraries in Multnomah County debuted this month.

01/18/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Drug Epidemic

Enrolling a Teen in Rehab? That’ll Be $28,731, Up Front

The average wait time is one month, and Oregon had zero available beds for teens on Medicaid.

01/17/2024 By Zoe Sayler

TAIL TALES

Is Dinner Rolls the Shar-Pei the Most Adoptable Pet in Portland?

Rescued from far West Texas, Din is now available for meet and greets at One Tail at a Time’s new adoption center.

01/12/2024 By Rebecca Jacobson

Fallen Treasure

Bad Week for Airlines, Good Week for Apple?

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's an iPhone that miraculously survived a 15,000-foot fall, and other Portland-area finds bringing corporate glee and headaches.

01/10/2024 By Zoe Sayler

Winter Wonderland

Will Portland Get Real Snow This Year?

We asked an expert whether the fluffy, white snow of sledding dreams is coming our way.

01/10/2024 By Zoe Sayler

Jenga!

How to Turn That Property into an Income Stream, Portland Style

A women-owned local company enables a new type of developer: you.

01/09/2024 By Arianne Cohen Photography by Michael Novak

Sky High

Private Flights? A Whole New World for Travelers and Pets

KinectAir, the Uber of airplanes, offers chartered, nonstop flights on the cheap across the Pacific Northwest.

01/08/2024 By Zoe Sayler

Big Day

Cheapest Weddings in Portland: Monday Sign-Ups Will Draw Crowds

Highly sought-after park venues are up for grabs starting at 8 a.m. on Monday.

01/05/2024 By Zoe Sayler

No ring, no problem

Swipe Right on Portland: City Ranks 10th in US for Singles

The City of Roses maintains its dating dominance.

01/05/2024 By Zoe Sayler

The Game of Portland

Can You Make It to Spring?

It's time for our favorite game, traversing Stumptown from now till March. This season, remember the winter rule: no important decisions in February.

01/02/2024 By Portland Monthly Staff Illustrations by Hawk Krall

Downtown

We Slept around Portland to Find the Best Staycations

Can luxury stays at downtown hotels outmatch the siren song of our editor’s cozy bed at home?

01/02/2024 By Arianne Cohen

Best of 2023

The 10 Biggest Portland Moments of the Year

We spent much of 2023 slack-jawed, through No-school November and the farewells of Darcelle, Dame, and Kenny & Zuke’s, plus a few Walmarts and Targets.

12/28/2023 By Portland Monthly Staff

Most Innovative Restaurants

The Pizza Shop Run by One Guy. Yes, Just One.

Two years of operating Gracie’s Apizza solo taught Craig Melillo a new model for restaurants.

12/21/2023 By Arianne Cohen Photography by Michael Raines

Unionized

8th Time’s the Charm: Powell’s and Employees Agree to a Contract

Following a strike and more than 10 months of bargaining, employees at Powell’s Books have voted to ratify to the eighth contract on offer.

12/20/2023 By Matthew Trueherz

Most Innovative Restaurants

In Portland, Cooperation, Sharing, and Charity Are on the Menu

From collectives to cooperative ownership, Dame Collective, Mirisata, and Café Olli cook up sustainable business models in a notoriously tough industry.

12/20/2023 By Katherine Chew Hamilton

Toe pick!

Where to Go Ice-Skating in Portland and Beyond

Total beginner? Wannabe Winterhawk? Aspiring Olympian? We have the rink for you.

12/15/2023 By Margaret Seiler

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