Things to Do

Things to Do in Portland This Week, October 2025

A Grimm fairy tale, adapted for grim times, and more events around town.

10/16/2025 By Isabel Lemus Kristensen

Q&A

Shari Dunn Says Now Is Not the Time to Give Up on DEI

The equity consultant’s new book, Qualified: How Competency Checking and Race Collide at Work, argues that we need to rethink how we hire, evaluate, and train employees.

03/18/2025 By Brooke Jackson-Glidden

Crib Sheet

A Quick-and-Easy Guide to Portland’s New City Councilors

The skinny on the city’s new leadership.

02/24/2025 By Nathan Williams

Book Review

Omar El Akkad Returns to Nonfiction to Undress American Mythology

Spurred by the war in Gaza, the celebrated American War novelist tests propaganda against the sanctity of human life.

02/19/2025 By Diana Abu-Jaber

Ballot Bonanza

Portland’s Upcoming Election, by the Numbers

Historical turnouts, close calls, and all those new ranked choices.

09/04/2024 By Margaret Seiler

Green Gold

How a Tiny Town in Eastern Oregon Became a Destination for Weed

Marijuana is booming in Ontario. But the town itself doesn’t reap the bounty.

06/18/2024 By Tim Neville Photography by Sarah Miller

Cocktail Banter

5 Flawless Conversation Starters for Summer

Five smart (and true) Portland news topics to talk about this season, from Viva Las Vegas’s city hall hopes to strawberry fields not-so-forever.

06/11/2024 By Portland Monthly Staff

Movers & Shakers

Perfect Portland Party: Fall 2023

From Love Is Blind’s Brett and Tiffany to a Succession star, here’s who’s invited to our fantasy dinner table.

08/29/2023 By Margaret Seiler

Serve Yo' Self

Pumping Your Own Gas: Coming to Oregon in August

Guess what’s not on Gov. Tina Kotek’s list of bills to veto? The legislation introducing self-serve gas.

07/28/2023 By Sam Stites

Partisan Divide

Who Won the Walkout in the Oregon Legislature?

Republicans in the Oregon Senate missed 43 days in a protest of several bills, on topics including abortion access, gender-affirming care, and gun control.

06/20/2023 By Sam Stites

Houses with History

Where Governors Go Shopping: The Oregon Historical Society Vault

Mahonia Hall’s new residents don’t go to a regular furniture store.

05/23/2023 By Byron Beck

Movers & Shakers

Perfect Party: Spring 2023

From the Hops’ new manager—one of the highest-ranking women in baseball—to the ghost of the Fort Stevens whale, here’s who we want to sit down with for a meal this season.

03/13/2023 By Margaret Seiler

Election 2022

How Things Are Shaking Out So Far after Election Day in Oregon

Oregon's top job, congressional seats, Portland city council and charter reform, and the chief executive of the state’s largest county

11/08/2022 By Sam Stites

Essay

After Dobbs, a Mother Imagines What Would Have Happened without a Choice

‘Speaking more openly about abortion and later abortion, including with our children, is probably the most important thing we can do to ensure Oregon continues to protect this basic human right.’

11/08/2022 By Hanna Neuschwander Illustrations by Marina Muun

Election 2022

Many Oregonians Still Have Their Ballot Sitting on the Kitchen Table

A new postmark rule allows voters to mail their ballot up until Election Day. Maybe it's the Damian Lillard effect?

11/07/2022 By Sam Stites

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

Analysis

Portlanders Seem to Want One Thing This Election Day: Change

A red wave isn't coming for the city (where offices are nonpartisan, anyway), but all signs point to a restless electorate looking for a new direction.

10/24/2022 By Julia Silverman