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Are Growing Regions the Next Defining Factor for the Oregon Cannabis Industry?
This is one aspect where the state’s aggressive oversight of the cannabis industry might pay dividends. The state is implementing a seed-to-sale tracking system that will standardize information on the origins of any cannabis product, says Morse of the OCBC. → Read More
These Prisoners Were Once in Solitary Confinement. Now, They Find Freedom Through Theater.
“The thing about doing theater inside a prison is, you have to build up trust and a following. They think, ‘That’s sissy territory.’” → Read More
This Portland Photographer Captures the New Wave of Women Motorcyclists
If you can’t be what you can’t see, Portland photographer Lanakila MacNaughton is doing her best to show you. → Read More
18 Things to Do and See in Portland August 26-28
Take off your clothes while telling jokes, eat at a 12-chef Korean food extravaganza or watch one of the year’s best animated films. → Read More
Goose Hollow
Built on the site of a filled-in creek, Goose Hollow remains green and relatively serene, except when the Timbers play. → Read More
One Portland Choreographer is Tackling Insomnia with a New Dance
Not sleeping will kill you. Unless, maybe, you flip insomnia on its head like Portland dancer Eliza Larson is doing. → Read More
Lloyd District
In the geographic center of the city, the Lloyd District is worlds apart from the Portlandia vision of Portland. → Read More
Hollywood
When Quentin Tarantino visited Portland, he came straight to Hollywood. → Read More
Events Space Refuge PDX Fell $200,000 Behind in Rent, May Close Permanently
Events scheduled at Refuge PDX must be cancelled or moved, for the foreseeable future. → Read More
Hillary Clinton and Portland’s Wildfang Boutique Had the Same Idea
What Trump is to trucker hats, feminists are to flair. → Read More
Portland Doesn’t Know What It’s Been Missing, Says the San Francisco Chronicle
Iconic Portland theater Cinema 21 is getting San Francisco’s best film curator → Read More
The S&M Show Debuting in Southeast Portland
. Portland’s newest theater company, an ambitious project from 27-year-old actors Aaron Filyaw and Amanda Mehl, is delivering deep existential masochism as counterpoint to the usual summer froth. → Read More
Photos of Portland Murals in 1999 and Now
Some things change. Belmont Market stays the same. → Read More
The Most Interesting Old Portland Murals
Some of the walls are more interesting than others. Here are the most interesting 131 murals. Keep in mind, many of them may not exist anymore. This list was created in 1999. → Read More
Is The Mural By Your House Protected By Federal Law?
Portland had over 1,500 “grandfathered” murals in 1998, but how many still exist is unclear. → Read More
Voting is Open for the First-Ever Oregon Play Prize
The nation’s first publicly-chosen play will be at Artists Repertory Theatre. You can vote now. → Read More
Can Federal Law Save This Threatened Black Lives Matter Mural?
Advocates tracking outdoor art say dozens of murals are currently under threat—most of them not because the building owner disagrees with the message, but because the building itself could be torn down or covered up by new development. → Read More
Portland’s Best Chocolate Fountain Lies in East Portland
How a 20-foot-tall chocolate fountain came to exist on Northeast 181st Avenue, halfway to Multnomah Falls, is a love story. → Read More
Portland Pig “Ms. P. Iggy Smalls” Is Portland’s Best Celebrity Pig
“Ms. P. Iggy Smalls,” aka “Notorious P.I.G.”, is a mini-Juliana pig whose Instagram page is filled with photos of her in doll hats, with painted nails, and frolicking in a pink kiddie pool → Read More
Society Nine Is Portland’s First Boxing Apparel Line for Women
“What this sport is about is empowerment, and that femininity is inherently powerful,” says Lynn Le, creator of Portland’s first boxing and mixed martial arts apparel line for women, Society Nine. → Read More