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How One Local Musician Connects Portland's Greatest Bands

22 degrees of Dave Depper

04/27/2015 By Fiona McCann

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The Story of Washington High School's Boom, Bust, and Rebirth as Revolution Hall

How the long-closed Southeast Portland high school became an ambitious new concert venue.

04/02/2015 By Larisa Owechko

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Is This Man Portland's Best Storyteller?

With his new book, Arthur Bradford cements his status as one of Portland’s finest raconteurs.

02/02/2015 By Kevin Friedman

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Transforming Portland's Art-World Boundaries

How Philly transplant Amy Adams blurs lines with her east-side gallery.

11/03/2014 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

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The Art Museum Brings a Bit of Paris to Portland

The Portland Art Museum pays homage to Paris's Tuileries Garden, one of the world’s most inspiring spaces.

06/11/2014 By Aaron Scott

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Profile Theater's Next Stage

After a tumultuous year, Profile’s artistic director Adriana Baer confronts the future.

01/02/2014 By Aaron Scott

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Wreck the Halls

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, as theater companies everywhere serve up warmed-over seasonal standards to bolster their bottom lines. But hark! This holiday season, four local companies are taking risks to cut through the treacle.

11/21/2013 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

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How Carli Davidson is Reinventing Pet Photography

A local photographer goes from blogs to book deal with her photos of dogs midshimmy.

11/01/2013 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

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Tending Tradition at the Portland Japanese Garden

The world-class garden's CEO Steve Bloom and curator Sadafumi Uchiyama seek to reinvent an exquisite, endangered art.

10/01/2013 By Randy Gragg Photography by Ashley Anderson

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PDX Pop Now Turns 10

After a decade, the all-ages, all-volunteer, all-free festival stands as a pillar of the Portland music scene.

06/14/2013 By Aaron Scott

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Dancer Linda Austin Reaches for 30

Portland’s doyenne of experimental dance returns to the work that sparked her career.

06/03/2013 By Heather Wisner

DESIGN MATTERS

Portland, Brooklyn, and the 1890s

Which city wins the award for artisanal authenticity - and which is exporting localism to the global market?

04/09/2013 By Kristin Belz

FASHION FRAMED

Oregon Culture Trust's Capturing Photos

Photographer Holly Andres stuns with the new promotional photos for Oregon nonprofit featuring prominent Oregonians like Esperanza Spalding and former Blazer Jerome Kersey.

01/22/2013 By Eden Dawn

Slideshow

Oregon Culture Trust's Capturing Photos

01/22/2013

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Portland Film Family Tree

Mapping the connections that make Portland one of the country’s greatest indie film towns

10/16/2012 By Anne Richardson

Bookshelf

Review: Dora: A Headcase by Lidia Yuknavitch

Based on a famed Freud case, the novel is as a razor-edged scalpel dissecting what it means to be categorized, typed, and diagnosed.

08/23/2012 By Roxanne Myslewski

Now Hear This

Music Review: The Helio Sequence Negotiations

08/23/2012 By AP Kryza

On The Town

Long Distance Love

Tin House magazine cultivates a transcontinental bond.

08/23/2012

Now Read This

Book Review: Kill You Twice

By Chelsea Cain [Minotaur Books]

07/20/2012 By Amber Villa-Zang

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Portland's Big Time Broadway Producer

Lake Oswego native Brisa Trinchero transforms her family’s Mount Adams lodge into a nationally renowned incubator for musical theater—and herself into a rising Broadway producer.

07/19/2012 By Michael McGregor