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fromPortland Mercury
1 day ago

The Mercury's Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for April 13-19 - Portland Mercury

Spring events include film screenings, a birthday celebration for John Waters, and free Latin dance lessons.
London food
fromPortland Mercury
4 hours ago

Food News: Smashburgers at Steely's and Chicago Tavern Pizza at Proof Launch This Week - Portland Mercury

Several new restaurants have opened recently, offering diverse dining options including smashburgers, Chicago-style pizza, and plant-based dishes.
East Bay food
fromFuncheap
10 hours ago

Oakland's "The Lake Show" 420 Poetry, Rappers + DJ Picnic (Lake Merritt)

The Lake Show is a free outdoor open mic picnic at Lake Merritt featuring local artists, food trucks, and a relaxed atmosphere.
Relationships
fromPortland Mercury
9 hours ago

SAVAGE LOVE: Outward Bound - Portland Mercury

Kink compatibility is essential in relationships; if one partner is unwilling to engage, it may be time to reconsider the relationship.
Portland food
fromSFGATE
13 hours ago

Real Estate Market Trends in Portland, OR: Prices Fall

Portland's housing market shows falling prices and faster sales, creating opportunities for buyers despite tight inventory.
Fashion & style
fromBustle
1 day ago

An Editor's Guide To Thriving - Not Just Surviving - During Festival Season

Preparation is key for a successful music festival experience.
#live-music
from48 hills
2 days ago
SF music

One decade in, the Back Room still holds space for intimate musical encounters - 48 hills

The Back Room in Berkeley celebrates its 10th anniversary, maintaining its intimate atmosphere for live music.
fromeverout.com
2 months ago
Music

Ticket Alert: Kid Cudi, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and More Portland Events Going On Sale This Week

A broad lineup of music, comedy, and performance events is scheduled across multiple Portland venues with varied on-sale times and dates throughout the year.
London music
fromPortland Mercury
4 days ago

Spin Cycle: The Portland Mercury's Album Review Column

Live music creates an unmatched experience of social connection and artistic engagement, as exemplified by performances at the Get Down venue.
SF music
from48 hills
2 days ago

One decade in, the Back Room still holds space for intimate musical encounters - 48 hills

The Back Room in Berkeley celebrates its 10th anniversary, maintaining its intimate atmosphere for live music.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
6 days ago

Sink your teeth into it: An interview with Kenji Bunch and Greg Ewer * Oregon ArtsWatch

Greg has been perhaps my biggest supporter of this project since it started. Greg commissioned the first batch of duos. A while back, he asked me how close I was to getting the first half of them done because I'd always talked about doing two volumes, a book one and book two of the forty-four duos, the way Bartók has them in two volumes.
Berlin music
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
6 days ago

FilmWatch Weekly: 'The Blue Trail,' 'Hamlet,' 'Exit 8,' and more * Oregon ArtsWatch

The Blue Trail is set in a recognizable, vaguely dystopian future, where the government ships elderly people off to a distant location known only as The Colony when they reach the age of 80. This is justified by the need to preserve jobs and resources for the younger population, but it doesn't sit well with 77-year-old Tereza, especially when she learns that the cutoff has been lowered to 75.
Film
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Portland
fromPortland Mercury
12 hours ago

Good Morning, News: Locals Push Back Against Zenith, Portland Fire Goes International, and Trump Has a Christ Complex - Portland Mercury

Portland Mercury promotes local journalism and arts, highlighting events like Pizza Week and local environmental advocacy against Zenith Energy.
Portland
fromPortland Mercury
4 days ago

Good Morning, News! Money Helps With Poverty, We Portland Arts, Top "Hillbilly Elegy" Diplomat to Pakistan, ICE and Other Dumbass Trump News - Portland Mercury

Portland faces a homelessness crisis, with residents expressing a need for financial support to secure permanent housing.
Portland
fromPortland Mercury
2 weeks ago

The Mercury's Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for March 30-April 5

Portland offers various spring activities including the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival and a fresh staging of Les Misérables.
Portland
fromPortland Mercury
12 hours ago

Good Morning, News: Locals Push Back Against Zenith, Portland Fire Goes International, and Trump Has a Christ Complex - Portland Mercury

Portland Mercury promotes local journalism and arts, highlighting events like Pizza Week and local environmental advocacy against Zenith Energy.
Portland food
fromPortland Mercury
4 days ago

The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Portland This Weekend: Apr 10-12, 2026 - Portland Mercury

Weekend events in the US include Alley Sweeper, The Ladds 500, Magnolia Festival, and Cherry Blossom Bazaar.
Portland
fromPortland Mercury
4 days ago

Good Morning, News! Money Helps With Poverty, We Portland Arts, Top "Hillbilly Elegy" Diplomat to Pakistan, ICE and Other Dumbass Trump News - Portland Mercury

Portland faces a homelessness crisis, with residents expressing a need for financial support to secure permanent housing.
Portland food
fromPortland Mercury
3 weeks ago

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Portland Indie Music Venues Need Support

Portland's independent live music venues face closures and changes due to economic challenges, pandemic effects, and shifting audience behaviors.
Portland
fromPortland Mercury
2 weeks ago

The Mercury's Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for March 30-April 5

Portland offers various spring activities including the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival and a fresh staging of Les Misérables.
NYC music
fromBrooklynVegan
2 days ago

Tour news: Big Kids, David Sedaris, Sincere Engineer, Pickathon, more

Several bands and artists have announced upcoming tours and shows across various locations.
Arts
fromArtnet News
14 hours ago

Inside 'Prince of Prints' Jordan Schnitzer's Sprawling Collection

Jordan Schnitzer's art collection features a vast array of works, including multiple Warhol pieces, and aims to support arts education.
London music
fromPortland Mercury
5 days ago

Ticket Alert: Of Monsters and Men, Parcels, and More Portland Events Going On Sale This Week - Portland Mercury

Of Monsters and Men, Parcels, and Max McNown are among the artists with upcoming performances in Oregon this summer.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 week ago

MusicWatch Monthly: Any actual existence * Oregon ArtsWatch

Chris Thomas, a notable composer, has created music that resonates with the styles of John Williams and Danny Elfman, particularly in his theme park compositions.
Music production
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
3 days ago

Special series: -Ism Storytellers, mixed race * Oregon ArtsWatch

In 2025, Dmae Lo Roberts embarked on a statewide storytelling experience focusing on personal stories from both artists and community members. These stories are a form of living oral history.
Portland
#theater
Arts
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 days ago

Spoken-word poetry, immigration fears, friendship, and 'Brown Face' onstage * Oregon ArtsWatch

The play at Milagro Theatre explores friendship, identity, culture, and immigration through a poetry-slam format with audience engagement.
Arts
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 days ago

Spoken-word poetry, immigration fears, friendship, and 'Brown Face' onstage * Oregon ArtsWatch

The play at Milagro Theatre explores friendship, identity, culture, and immigration through a poetry-slam format with audience engagement.
Portland food
fromPortland Mercury
5 days ago

Coming April 20: The Delicious Fun of the Mercury's PIZZA WEEK! - Portland Mercury

Portland Mercury's Pizza Week runs from April 20-26, featuring unique slices for $4 and whole pies for $25 at 70 locations.
Portland
fromPortland Mercury
1 day ago

Advocates Reject Zenith Energy Investigation in Letter Delivered to Mayor's Office - Portland Mercury

Local environmental advocates express frustration with Mayor Wilson for not revoking Zenith Energy's land use credentials despite alleged violations.
Arts
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
4 days ago

Salem Paper Arts Fair celebrates love of all things paper, followed by a 'Bridgerton' ball * Oregon ArtsWatch

The first annual Salem Paper Arts Fair celebrates paper arts and literature on April 18, featuring independent artists and a Booklover's Ball.
Beer
fromTasting Table
3 weeks ago

The 15 Best Breweries To Visit In Oregon - Tasting Table

Oregon is a key hub for craft brewing, featuring award-winning breweries with unique offerings and a vibrant beer culture.
SF music
from48 hills
6 days ago

Under the Stars: Stoked for Stern Grove and SF Bay Popfest lineups, 'lesbian doom folk' - 48 hills

Ulrika Spacek blends guitar rock and electronic music, showcasing their new release EXPO at Rickshaw Stop with a captivating performance.
#portland-events
Portland
fromPortland Mercury
5 days ago

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Cory Wong, ps goner, Drew and Ellie Holcomb, and MORE! - Portland Mercury

Free tickets available for various concerts and events in Portland, including exhibitions and live performances.
Portland
fromPortland Mercury
4 weeks ago

The Mercury's Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for March 16-22

Portland celebrates spring with diverse cultural events including dining specials, live music performances, comedy shows, art exhibitions, and themed cocktail promotions throughout March.
Portland
fromPortland Mercury
5 days ago

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Cory Wong, ps goner, Drew and Ellie Holcomb, and MORE! - Portland Mercury

Free tickets available for various concerts and events in Portland, including exhibitions and live performances.
Portland
fromPortland Mercury
4 weeks ago

The Mercury's Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for March 16-22

Portland celebrates spring with diverse cultural events including dining specials, live music performances, comedy shows, art exhibitions, and themed cocktail promotions throughout March.
#art
SF music
fromThe Bold Italic
6 days ago

Bars With Live Music in San Francisco

San Francisco's bar scene offers vibrant live music experiences, featuring various genres and intimate settings.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
4 days ago

CoHo: Clowning and a whole lot more * Oregon ArtsWatch

CoHo hasn't just survived, it has thrived and is ascending, and that is largely thanks to the foundation that Cuomo... laid with the young artists who have come up after him.
Portland
#comedy
Portland food
fromeverout.com
2 weeks ago

The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Portland This Weekend: Mar 2729, 2026

Portland Mercury's Undisputable Geniuses of Comedy 2026 features local comedians and drag artists for a night of laughter.
NYC music
fromPortland Mercury
3 weeks ago

The Mercury's Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for March 23-29

Comedy geniuses will perform at Revolution Hall, alongside various events including a performance of Snow White and a pop-up oyster bar.
Portland
fromPortland Mercury
5 days ago

"Portland Nice" Is on Full Display in Carol Triffle's Latest Musical Comedy - Portland Mercury

Nice People satirizes performative niceness and racism through humor and conflict between two elderly sisters and a Mexican woman.
Portland
fromPortland Mercury
5 days ago

The Mercury's JOYRIDE Issue Is Out Now! - Portland Mercury

Transportation is a vital aspect of life in Portland, covered in the April issue of the Mercury titled 'Joyride.'
London music
fromeverout.com
1 month ago

The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Portland This Weekend: Mar 1315, 2026

Barbara Hammer's pioneering 50-year filmmaking career documented queer and lesbian histories through films exploring political struggles, aging, love, and identity, with six shorts screening at a Lesbian Cinema Club event.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

MusicWatch Monthly: Marching forth * Oregon ArtsWatch

March 8 itself has been International Women's Day for just over a century, and although there are several versions of "why March 8?" the answers all lead back to early 20th-century socialists and communists. Soviet Russia in particular made a big thing of commemorating March 8 as the beginning of the first of the two revolutions that created their empire.
Women
SF music
fromeverout.com
3 weeks ago

The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Portland This Weekend: Mar 2022, 2026

Moon Debris celebrates their new album with a live show featuring local artists and a benefit for music nonprofits.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 week ago

Remembering Steven Oshatz: "Marking the contours" * Oregon ArtsWatch

Oshatz worked on a monumental scale to represent underwater scenes, creating a full stage silk backdrop. He also designed hand painted silk waves that dancers moved across the stage.
Portland
#arts-funding
Music
fromPortland Monthly
2 months ago

The Best Music Festivals in Portland and Across Oregon

Festival season peaks in summer, but lineup and ticket releases begin in fall; statewide festival season runs about nine months, starting with indoor January events.
fromPortland Monthly
1 week ago

Seeing Things: Portland Shows & Events This Week, March 2026

Rowe and Garen Scribner's libretto takes its liberties, setting the action in a world where everything is green and an evil princess has ruled that nothing be eaten but peas.
Portland
Portland food
fromPortland Mercury
1 month ago

The Mercury's Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for March 9-15

Portland offers diverse entertainment this week including live music, sports, theater, and multiple Oscar viewing options across streaming platforms.
US politics
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

Oregon carves its own path in 2026's America 250 anniversary celebration * Oregon ArtsWatch

President Trump seeks a traditional patriotic 250th anniversary and pushes restrictions on teaching difficult U.S. history; Oregon cultural organizations plan inclusive, critical commemorations.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

It's a new beginning at Oregon City's End of the Oregon Trail center * Oregon ArtsWatch

OREGON CITY - It'll be a long and arduous journey emblematic of the original 1840s Oregon Trail migration itself. But, in the end, some years from now, restoration of the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive and Visitor Center in Oregon City should produce a beacon of history, education, and pride for the state and citizens of all backgrounds. An updated venue will include a new addition housing original wagons, a beautiful plank house, amphitheater events, and expanded programming.
History
fromPortland Monthly
2 months ago

5 Oregon-Made Comics to Know

Sacco is from Malta. He immigrated here, I think when he was 11 or 12, and created a whole genre of comics journalism: He embeds himself in conflict zones, then writes a graphic novel. Palestine is incredibly powerful and it's obviously still relevant. It was the story of Palestine in the '90s. That's the book to go to if you wanted to start reading Joe Sacco.
fromPortland Mercury
2 months ago

Tap Your Toe to The Off Beat: Portland's Newest All-Ages Music Venue

A band called Ad Nauseam is dead set on keeping grunge alive in Portland, but no local venue will return their calls to play a show. Like the most iconic grunge acts, Ad Nauseam has deep PNW roots. They deliver sludgy, whining guitar licks and haunting, sandpapery vocals. They've even got an angsty tune called "Scab Pimple" for goodness sake. So why can't they land a gig? Well, it might be because all four band members are between the ages of 10 and 16.
Music
Mental health
fromPortland Mercury
2 months ago

The god damn grind

Severe personal crisis led to loss and manic behavior, prompting friends' concern and distancing; recovery followed and now the person seeks limited, occasional reconnection.
Women
fromPortland Monthly
1 month ago

Hot Takes on Portland's Latest News

Oregon is experiencing major cultural and energy developments, from expansion of women's sports and performing arts to advancing geothermal research and infrastructure repairs.
Portland
fromPortland Mercury
2 weeks ago

YOUR SUNDAY READING LIST: Trump Crushes Curler's Dreams, Extra Mad March Madness, and What's Happening with Portland's Music Venues?

Sarah Maywalt fights for her right to compete in curling amid federal mandates against trans women in sports.
Film
fromPortland Mercury
2 months ago

The Mercury's Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for January 19-25

January symbolizes beginnings and transitions; use January 19 to volunteer and attend local cultural events including film screenings, music, and fairs.
Music
fromPortland Monthly
1 month ago

The Waterfront Blues Festival Drops Its 2026 Lineup

The Waterfront Blues Festival (July 2–4, 2026) features diverse, genre-spanning acts—including Tank and the Bangas, Durand Jones & the Indications, and the Revivalists—plus fireworks.
fromPortland Mercury
2 weeks ago

Mercury Music Picks: Hardcore Shortiez Destroy HLR, Larry Brings His Flask to Showdown, and It's Spring Break in Kenton

Sessa's charming stage presence, irresistible Portuguese vocals, and the whole band's groovy sunshine energy made the entire room fall in love with the musicians from São Paulo.
Portland
Portland
fromTravel + Leisure
3 weeks ago

This Oregon City Is One of the Top Places to Live in the West

Beaverton, Oregon ranks as the second best place to live in the West for 2026, highlighting its environmental commitment and quality of life.
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#portland-concerts
Portland
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
4 weeks ago

DramaWatch: On a lighter note, musicals and comedies blossom on Oregon stages * Oregon ArtsWatch

Spring theater season offers diverse productions including comedies, musicals, and new works across multiple venues and festivals in the Pacific Northwest.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

'It's Not All About Me': Three Portland icons make a winning show * Oregon ArtsWatch

With most of us, 90 minutes of reminiscing wouldn't make for scintillating theater. Gert Boyle, as played by Wendy Westerwelle, is the exception to that rule. The late Gert came to fame when she took the reins of Columbia Sportswear after her husband's death in 1970 and also became the "One Tough Mother," with gray hair and glasses, of its comedic '80s and '90s ad campaigns. In one, she put her son, Tim, through a carwash to test the durability of a coat.
Arts
Portland
fromPortland Mercury
1 month ago

YOUR SUNDAY READING LIST: It's Dame Time... for a New Bar, How to Combat "Portland Nice," and Welcome to Spring (Arts)

The Mercury's weekly roundup features investigations into labor influence on city politics, cultural commentary on performative activism, spring arts programming, queer theater, a celebrity sports bar opening, and local trivia.
Arts
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

DramaWatch: Busy theaters will have audiences racing to catch all the shows on offer in the next few weeks * Oregon ArtsWatch

Multiple Portland-area theaters open diverse new productions and a community-focused play festival in late January, creating concentrated, short-lived creative experiences across many venues.
Portland
fromPortland Mercury
1 month ago

Meet the 2026 Mercury Undisputable Geniuses of Comedy!

Portland's 2026 Undisputable Geniuses of Comedy showcases the city's diverse stand-up talent with hosts Adam Pasi and Nariko Ott, featuring headliner Matt Braunger on March 27 at Revolution Hall.
fromeverout.com
1 month ago

Ticket Alert: PDX Live, Earth, Wind & Fire, and More Portland Events Going On Sale This Week

Tickets go on sale at 10 am unless otherwise noted. MUSIC A.J. Croce Presents Croce Plays Croce Revolution Hall (Thurs Oct 1) Blackberry Smoke: Rattle, Ramble and Roll Tour 2026 Revolution Hall (Thurs June 11) Buck Meek with Kisser Mississippi Studios (Fri Dec 4) Brandi Carlile Hayden Homes Amphitheater (May 2021)
Portland
fromPortland Mercury
2 months ago

YOUR SUNDAY READING LIST: Stopping the ICE Creep, Beloved Restaurant Closes, and a BANGER of a Pickathon Lineup!

* Councilors Want City to Move Faster on Enforcement of New Detention Center Fee Portland City Councilors Angelita Morillo and Mitch Green are asking the mayor to expedite enforcement of a new detention center impact fee that targets landlords. The city code change makes it a violation to emit harmful chemical agents like tear gas, which pose environmental and health hazards.
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