We went to Seaside to test the town’s classic tourist attractions. There was one goal: to maximize kid fun while minimizing parental misery.

Poison Waters, the Portland Gay Men Chorus’s and others honor the city’s most iconic drag queen with ribbon-cutting festivities.

Concerts, cookbook-inspired dinners, and gallery events stretch the most bookish day of the year into a week.

The two-story bar was known for its Monday comedy nights, basement games and its discontinued Birthday Power Hours.

The sweet sound of school bells will ring again, parents. Aug. 26 is 77 days from now. But who’s counting?

“It was so fun going to the pool with just nobody being there, just kids,” Seamus says. “But now it’s weird with all the adults there.”

If gentle parenting is seeing itself to the door, it is not doing so without a tantrum on the way out.

Catie Norboe is engaged to an Englishman in season 12 of the reality TV franchise.

The bill also features Caustic Resin and Thrones.

Matthew Dear, The Lemon Twigs and Alela Diane take the stage this week in Portland.