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5 Oregon Stories To Watch This Week, October 4-11

Turmoil at the Thorns, debate over Portland Street Response, and a new strategy to curb drive-by shootings

10/04/2021 By Julia Silverman

Music

Song of the Week: ‘Shimanchu’ by Floating Room

Sweet alt-rock disguises a biter pill on the lead single from Maya Stoner’s upcoming EP.

10/01/2021 By Conner Reed

Outdoors

7 Essential Gear Picks For Fall Hiking in Oregon

What to wear when you hit the trail this season.

10/01/2021 By Karly Quadros

Find smiles for miles in Everett, WA

Your home base for fall fun.

10/01/2021

TBA

A Public Procession High-Steps Through Boise-Eliot

In Let ’im Move You: Intervention, jumatatu m. poe and Jermone ‘Donte’ Beacham bring Black queer performance to the parks and sidewalks of historically Black neighborhoods.

10/01/2021 By Rebecca Jacobson

Eat This Now

Best Thing I Ate This Week: Pork Chop with Plum, Fennel, and Basil at Ruthie’s

I love the rolls and rockfish sliders at this cart, but the pork dishes are a personal must-order.

10/01/2021 By Katherine Chew Hamilton

Podcasts

Rifelion Changes Up the Script for American Muslims

A new Portland-based podcasting network documents historical, cultural, and personal stories from American Muslims in a post-9/11 world

10/01/2021 By Karly Quadros

Pomo Picks

Top Things to Do in Portland This Week: Sept 30–Oct 6

The Symphony returns, TBA winds down, an Iranian vampire classic comes to the Clinton, and more

09/30/2021 By Conner Reed

Homelessness

At Long Last, Portland Announces 3 Locations For 'Safe Rest Villages'

Only 180 people will be able to move in; three more sites are expected to be announced soon.

09/30/2021 By Julia Silverman

Food and drink

5 Incredible Pumpkin Spice Lattes that Will Convert Even the Surliest Portlander

We tasted Portland’s pumpkin spice lattes so you don’t have to (unless you want to).

09/30/2021 By Maggie Panos

Remodel

Old House, New Kitchen

A fresh cooking space in a Pietro Belluschi–designed house from the 1940s bridges nature, design tradition, and modern functionality.

09/30/2021 By Brian Libby

Outdoors

What to Do in Oregon in October

Visit Halloweentown, explore PNW hops, learn about mushrooms, and more this spooky season

09/30/2021 By Portland Monthly Staff

Q&A

The Iceman Speaketh

Don Baldwin, manager of the Lloyd Center Ice Rink, on artificial snow, Tonya Harding, and how smaller ice can be twice as nice

09/30/2021 By Marty Patail

Your Next Getaway Is Just Around The Corner in Oregon

Ready for new places to see this fall and winter? Discover just how much Oregon has to offer with a trip to the Eugene area.

09/29/2021

Interview

We Can All Learn So Much from Betty White

In her new book, How to be Golden, Portland author Paula Bernstein discusses the beloved actress's magnetism and the lessons we might learn from her long career.

09/29/2021 By Cami Hughes

Real Estate

Price Point: $400K homes in Vancouver, Wilsonville, and PDX

A single-family home with a private backyard in Vancouver, a country club condo in Wilsonville, and an updated 1950's home in Portland.

09/29/2021 By Cami Hughes

Food News

Berlu Cooks Up One of the Country’s Most Daring Vietnamese Tasting Menus

Conceptual street food debuts at Vince Nguyen's acclaimed SE Belmont spot, reopening in mid-October.

09/29/2021 By Karen Brooks

Old Portland

That One Time Portland Was in ‘Sassy’ in 1991

A look back at the teen magazine travel feature with nods to Quality Pie, the Church of Elvis, and, of course, Sassy’s

09/29/2021 By Margaret Seiler

Domaine Serene Teams Up With the Trail Blazers

America’s most acclaimed winery pioneers a new location in Bend, and partners with the Trail Blazers on two luxury Wine Studios in the Moda Center.

09/28/2021

Q&A

Can Squid Teach Us How to Survive Climate Change?

Author and conservation biologist Thor Hanson talks to us about his new book Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change.

09/28/2021 By Karly Quadros