Year in Review

The Best Oregon-Made Books, Films, Music, Theater, and Art of 2022

From a Decemberist’s spine-chilling ghost story to a joyful album from an old Portland master, 2022 was the year the arts roared back to life.

12/14/2022 By Conner Reed

Events

The Best Holiday Shows in Portland This Season

Drag queens, nutcrackers, mariachi, and more.

12/06/2022 By Conner Reed and Matthew Trueherz

Film

Inside Guillermo del Toro’s Portland-Made Pinocchio

The decade-in-the-making stop-motion spectacle sets Collodi’s classic tale against the backdrop of Fascist Italy. It opens in Portland November 23.

11/23/2022 By Conner Reed

Books

Reese Witherspoon Wasn’t at the Portland Book Festival, Per Se

From Election to Wild, the books behind some of Witherspoon’s most acclaimed roles were the talk of this year’s festival.

11/08/2022 By Matthew Trueherz

Photo Essay

Portland Is One of America's Great Moviegoing Towns

A look inside the independent cinemas that make the Rose City such a special place to catch a screening

11/01/2022 By Conner Reed Photography by Michael Novak

Election 2022

Portland’s City Charter Reform Measure Gets a Celebrity Endorsement from Jennifer Lawrence

The Oscar-winning megastar has worked for years on pro-democracy causes.

10/28/2022 By Margaret Seiler

Film Review

Portland-Made Wendell & Wild Is a Head-Spinning Display of Craftsmanship

The latest dispatch from the minds of Jordan Peele and Henry Selick is an overstuffed, overstimulating feast of delicious stop-motion animation.

10/24/2022 By Conner Reed

Halloween

Portland’s Best Halloween Entertainment for the Scare-Averse

Not into buckets of blood or strangers chasing you down darkened hallways? Still want to get in on the season's festivities? Look no further.

10/18/2022 By Conner Reed

Film Review

Showing Up Brings Portland to NYFF

Kelly Reichardt’s latest lowkey gem offers a portrait of the artist as a grunt worker.

10/10/2022 By Conner Reed

Feature

Remembering Vampira and Tarantula Ghoul, Oregon’s Scream Queens

Inside the legacies of two locally grown horror hosts

10/03/2022 By Conner Reed Illustrations by Patrick Leger

Pop Culture Deep Dive

What Is Going On with Our Relationship to Don’t Worry Darling?

As a movie, the Olivia Wilde–helmed thriller is drawing unflattering comparisons to Black Mirror. As tabloid fodder, it might mark a cultural inflection point.

09/12/2022 By Conner Reed

Film

The Trailer for Jordan Peele’s New Portland-Made Stop-Motion Feature Is Here

Wendell & Wild hits Netflix October 28.

09/06/2022 By Conner Reed

Film

Baby Fever Is a Monstrously Good Portland-Made Horror Flick

The pregnancy-centered, candy-colored short from Hannah May Cumming is making a splash on the festival circuit.

08/26/2022 By Conner Reed

Business

Can an Indie Takeover Bring Back the Lloyd Center’s Glory Days?

An influx of local, art-focused shops is bringing new life to the iconic mall that plenty of Portlanders had left for dead.

08/11/2022 By Sam Pape

Movie Theaters

How the Clinton Street Theater’s New Owners Are Bringing It into the Future

The 107-year-old Southeast Portland punk palace is getting a light makeover—but its spirit is staying the same as ever.

07/19/2022 By Conner Reed

Hollywood

If Jennifer Lopez Is Going to Marry a Costar, Does It Have to Be Ben Affleck?

With his upcoming Nike movie, he’s got Portland cred, but let’s just imagine some of the alternatives: Jesus, Voldemort, George Clooney…

07/19/2022 By Margaret Seiler

Events

20 Totally FREE Things to Do in Portland This Summer

Music, movies, plays, and more: you can catch ’em all for an unbeatable price at these in-city events.

07/12/2022 By Matthew Trueherz, Michelle Harris, and Conner Reed

Pop Culture Deep Dive

Mid-Year Pop Culture Report

From Big Thief to Marcel the Shell to a kinetic new take on Chekhov, these are the 2022 cultural nuggets that have spoken to us most directly.

07/08/2022 By Conner Reed

Film

A New HBO Doc Chronicles a Pre-Roe Abortion Underground

The Janes, out June 8, shows how a group of young women in Chicago took health care into their own hands. Among those featured in the film? Portlander Judith Arcana.

05/27/2022 By Rebecca Jacobson

Baseball

Gaming Out the Brine Lives of Baseball Mascot Dillon T. Pickle

We imagine the next steps for Portland’s favorite seven-foot gherkin.

05/10/2022 By Dalila Brent