What does it mean to build a business for a neighborhood, and what does it mean to build one that turns the neighborhood into a destination?

Go to Live Wire’s special Book Fest edition, check out the Pancakes and Booze Art Show, and ooh and ahh at the Stimson Lumber Tree Arrival.

Laugh with Marlon Wayans, dance with a Thriller flash mob, and check out Bosco’s Haus of Whorrors.

Check out textile artist Bridgette Hickey’s talk, listen to HEARD! A Service Industry Storytelling Show, and go to the QDoc Film Festival.

Compare notes at ‘Capturing Bigfoot,’ Nerd pit at OMSI’s Black Community Science Night, and paddle at the Giant Pumpkin Regatta.

Her new play follows a trans femme support group in the 2010s as Portland is simultaneously gentrified and queerified.

See FashioNXT, learn about personal color analysis, shop at the Bitchcraft Fair.

Run by an intergenerational volunteer staff, the former Hollywood Senior Center skips the institutional day care vibes in favor of something akin to a clubhouse.

Go to the Swan Island Dahlia Festival, watch the doc ‘Black Zombie,’ and chow down at Taste of Portland.

Hear Orville Peck, photobomb at Pet Portrait Day and help out at the PDX Free Market.