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The Awesomely Ridiculous
Finally, Oregon has a park named after the Exploding Whale.
Ringside's steak sale sparks pandemonium on Burnside.
Lucky Devil Lounges launches a "stripper food delivery service" called Boober Eats.
Baker City votes to sell a used backhoe—and the backhoe briefly becomes Twitter famous.
Damian Lillard buys a car dealership in McMinnville.
The Awesomely Ridiculous…But Also Sort of Awful
Patriot Prayer founder Joey Gibson cameos in the new Borat movie.
Drake shoots a music video at the Nike campus in Beaverton.
The Seriously Awesome
Raffi writes a song about the Wall of Moms.
In-N-Out and Shake Shack inch their way toward Portland proper.
Phoenix, Oregon, an independent film shot in Southern Oregon, briefly tops the box office.
Top Chef finally sets a season in Portland.
Yale Union transfers its building to an Indigenous arts organization and dissolves as a nonprofit.
Darcelle XV added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Verdell Burdine Rutherford Park is the first Portland park named after a Black woman.
The Ridiculously Awful
A drive-in screening of Oregon-shot action-comedy Kindergarten Cop over complaints.
Portland protesters boycott Otter Pops.
Florida man defrauds Oregon casino by pretending to represent the Village People.
A house in North Portland allegedly turns into a pandemic speakeasy.
An escaped goat holds the residents of a Portland group home hostage.
Members of Patriot Prayer kidnap the antifa elk statue.
The Ridiculously Awful…But Still Kind of Awesome
Celebrity therapy llama owners feud on social media.
The Seriously Awful
The whole John Gorham situation.
RIP OR-7, aka Journey, Oregon's most famous wolf.
RIP philanthropist Arlene Schnitzer.
RIP art patron Glenda Goldwater.
RIP Blazers legend (and cannabis advocate) Cliff Robinson.