Jay Horton

Early advertisements depicted a peg-legged, pistol-toting buccaneer mascot atop the sign’s topsail promising “free chocolate pieces of eight for junior pirates finishing their plates.”

The Portland theater mainstay talks about the process of helming a Johnny Cash bioperetta.

“We’ve been here for 20 years, we made a lot of friends, and it’s been an absolute blast. Unfortunately, time marches on.”

From 11 am until, naturally, 4:20 pm, guests were led through a series of instructional seminars and exercise classes to heighten their physical, emotional and spiritual fitness.

Portland’s last trick shop and longest-running magic show is packing its bags to move from one mall to another.

The low-slung, graffiti-strewn, unassuming polygon at 1931 NE Sandy Blvd. has survived a variety of different incarnations in its 102-year history.

“Same as everywhere else, there’s been a kind of tidal change in horror.”

“We’ve fermented dairy for millennia, but never as its own spirit with its own complexity and flavor and sippability.”

Cameron’s Books found an impossibly picturesque landing spot for its massed troves of aging media: the floors above Union Station.

The Dyrt has now cultivated a vast, all-inclusive community that has contributed over 4 million user-generated pictures, videos and critical reviews of 40,000-plus campgrounds.

The iconic local toy emporium is featured in the fourth season of “A Toy Store Near You,” the pandemic hit Amazon Prime docuseries.

While Portland cannot claim the sax god as our own, the path that brought the University of Washington accounting student to the attention of major record labels arguably begins in Puddletown.

The paranormal drama taps into the dampened ambitions and mouldering dreams hovering alongside the shuttered mines and mills.

Haynes pours an unending deluge of imagery cribbed from experimentalist cinema into a thoughtful fever dream that is meticulous, ecstatic and very much alive.

In 2013, Portland was just that city on The Real World.