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The Oregon Theater, the City’s Last Operating Porn Palace Before Closing This Year, Plans for a Second Coming

Billboard Chart-Topping Anderson and Roe Are (Virtually) Coming to Portland

Fertile Ground Festival Will Move Entirely Online in 2021 Due to the Coronavirus

The Fertile Ground Festival has announced that it will become a free, virtual program next year, running Jan. 28 through Feb. 7. Organizations and artists can submit recorded content for consideration and selected pieces will be streamed over the course of 11 days on the festival’s Facebook and YouTube platforms.

The World’s Last Remaining Blockbuster Video in Bend Offers Airbnb Bookings Three Nights in September

Guests will have free reign of the store, including the rental inventory and concession stand, where they’ll be able to help themselves to as many pizza slices, Nerds and Raisinets as they like. Employees have even set up a mock living room that looks a little like a sitcom set from the 90s—there’s a giant flat screen TV, a Sony VHS player, a bean bag and a pullout sofa with a very of-its-era bedspread. If you really want to commit to the theme, there’s even a closet filled with scrunchies and parachute pants.

The Hollywood Theatre Will Turn the Expo Center Into a Drive-In, at Least for the Summer

The Portland Expo Center was hosting moviegoers parked in cars long before the drive-in became cool once again due to the pandemic. Now that program is getting a boost thanks to a partnership with the Hollywood Theatre. Starting Thursday, Aug. 13, audiences will be able to watch a lineup of films chosen by the historic venue’s film buffs.

Someone Tagged “Black Lives Matter” Outside a Church in Southeast Portland. Staff Decided to Keep It—and Turn It Into a Mural

Heidie Ambrose, a staff member and artist by trade, began the process of expanding the graffiti into a sprawling mural. Each brick is marked with the name of a Black man or woman who has died at the hands of systemic racism, and painted bricks are reserved for those who have died in the Portland area.

“Keep Portland Weird” Is Out. “Don’t F— With Portland” Is In.

“Keep Portland Weird” had a good run, but it doesn’t quite reflect the mettle of a town that just came out in droves to oppose a federal occupation. A tougher, more defiant slogan would speak better to the moment.