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We Visited Wakonda, A Place That Ken Kesey Invented for a Book, Which Exists Anyway

There is no town of Wakonda. There is no Wakonda Auga River. These places existed only in the mind of Ken Kesey, who is dead, and in the pages of his logging novel Sometimes a Great Notion, which is long. You can get lost in the pages, but you won’t find directions.

Car Seat Headrest Shows Off His Indie-Star Bonafides at the Wonder Ballroom

The closeness of the live renditions of his many show-stopping tracks to their recorded versions could be considered a knock on the experience, but Toledo is keenly aware of the pitfalls that exist in his world of loose and often-drunk noodling.

Will Toledo Brings Car Seat Headrest Out of the Bedroom and On the Road

It’s an increasingly familiar story, in an age when getting signed, making a record and forming a band are all chronologically jumbled steps to a very unlikely path toward a fruitful career.

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Oregon Grew More Cannabis Than Customers Can Smoke. Now Shops and Farmers Are Left With Mountains of Unwanted Bud.

(Henry Cromett)

Southeast Portland Burgerville Employees Vote to Become the Nation’s First Fast Food Union

Burgerville milkshakes: enjoy them once more, without guilt. (star5112 / Flickr)

Astoria is The Best Place in Oregon For A Weekend Bender

(Sam Gehrke)

We Hiked the Reopened Timberline Trail That Circumnavigates Mount Hood. It’s a Beast.

(Joe Michael Riedl)

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Oregon’s Public Employee Pension Woes Are National News 93

Gov. Kate Brown Picks Up an Unprecedented Donation From Financier George Soros 90

Portland Police Shot and Killed a Man Inside a Homeless Shelter After He Allegedly Burst Into an AA Meeting With a Knife 83

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