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Oregon Trail Card holders can find free or low-cost film, theater, and music events through. Read our top picks for this ...

Portland’s ban on sleeping in public took effect last Nov. 1. Since then, the city’s Impact Reduction Program has swept over ...

I’m starting to prefer the cooler, quieter seasons. Summer is the worst. Often romanticized as a glorious time with gorgeous weather, when everybody’s sitting poolside (more likely riverside in ...

For people living outside, sweeps are stressful at any time of year. In the summer, they can be devastating. Kelly Clendenon recalled how when he was homeless, there were a couple times he passed out ...

Gray’s Landing, a low-income housing apartment owned by REACH Community Development, sits perpendicular to the Portland Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility facility. Credit: Mikayla Mesko / ...

Oregon public health officials were nearly uniform with their guidance as wildfire smoke swallowed the Northwest in early August: avoid breathing smoke by staying indoors whenever possible. Particles ...

Malcolm Hoover and Mirabai Collins founded Black Futures Farm in 2019. The farm now occupies 1.15 acres in the Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood and offers 17 fruit trees, along with vegetables, ...

Boots Riley’s latest absurdist film, “I Love Boosters,” follows a crew of shoplifters who take on a fashion mogul, inspiring a mass general strike. After watching, I chatted with a coworker about the ...

Is the “song of the summer” dead? I cannot be the arbiter of truth on that one, but it feels like it may be on its deathbed. Or maybe, it’s reinventing itself to better appeal to the world we live in, ...

Year after year, Oregon’s summer fruit bounty always awakens my inner child. Fruit is referred to by some as nature’s candy, so perhaps it makes sense that the child in me gets absolutely giddy about ...

“A few nights ago we decided to challenge ourselves and wreck four camera towers in one night,” said an early-August post on a Portland anarchist message board. Photos of the destroyed mobile camera ...