Global Aid

Here's How to Help Ukraine From PDX

These Portland artists, restaurants, and businesses are doing what they can to help Ukraine, and you can too.

03/02/2022 By Shannon Daehnke

Coronavirus

Oregon Has Another New Target Date for Lifting Its Indoor Mask Mandate: March 11

This is the third date the state has set, each one sooner than the one before.

02/28/2022 By Julia Silverman

In Memoriam

Oregon-Born Actor Howard Hesseman Dies at 81

A very brief run with the University of Oregon’s theater department set the Lebanon-born, Silverton-raised college student on a new course.

01/31/2022 By Margaret Seiler

Sports

These Oregonians Are Ready to Shred at the Beijing Olympics

Tommy Ford, Jacqueline Wiles, Luke Winters, and Sean FitzSimons will be repping the state on the slopes next month.

01/26/2022 By Shannon Daehnke

Money & Politics

Who Is Donating in Portland City Council Elections?

With contributions capped, big players with names like Goodman, Kafoury, and Jubitz are writing small checks to candidates for city commissioner.

01/25/2022 By Margaret Seiler

Scandal!

Portland Pickles Let Mascot Do a Twitter Takeover—Hilarity Ensues

Um, what is that green shaft popping up in our feeds?

01/13/2022 By Margaret Seiler

Satire

What Is Residency, Really?

Nicholas Kristof’s bid for Oregon governor makes us wonder.

01/07/2022 By Margaret Seiler

PDX Index

How Much Does It Cost to Die in Oregon

Funerals, cremation, caskets, obituaries—dying isn't cheap.

01/05/2022 By Cami Hughes

Pop Culture Deep Dive

2021 Was the Year of Millennial Ambivalence

Lorde’s Solar Power and Sally Rooney's Beautiful World, Where Are You are polarizing explorations of a major 2021 theme: processing devastation by turning away from absolutes.

12/31/2021 By Conner Reed

Books

The Best Oregon Books of 2021

From crying in H Mart to folding paper stars to tracking tigers in Japan-occupied Korea, these Beaver State books took us places we were more than happy to go.

12/31/2021 By Fiona McCann, Conner Reed, and Karly Quadros