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Twenty-One Years Ago, Steven Reed Said He Was Going for a Hike Near Mount Hood. He Hasn’t Been Seen Since, and That May Be Just What He Wanted.

“I don’t think he’s lost,” says Emileigh Rohn, a close friend. “I don’t think this was an accident.”

Miranda July Takes a Break from Directing to Play a Tormented Parent in Madeline’s Madeline

Miranda July stars in Josephine Decker’s kaleidoscopic new indie, Madeline’s Madeline. In it she plays Regina, a woman buckling under the pressure of caring for her daughter Madeline (newcomer Helena Howard), who is struggling with a mysterious mental illness.

Film Compilation Portland 90 Exhumes Old Portland Without Nostalgia

But McCormick is reluctant to get too nostalgic about the era in which he came up. “[It’s] a little bit naive and self-centered to point to, say, 1992 and say, ‘That’s Old Portland,’” says McCormick, “because I’m sure there would be someone who lived in Portland in the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s who would tell that person that they were full of shit.”

Writer Jon Raymond's 20-Year Portrait of the Portland Art Scene

Jon Raymond is an art critic the same way a novelist is a critic of humans—a keen and often cold-eyed observer who manages to use his subjects for purposes other than their own. Raymond is probably best known to Portlanders for his fiction (The Half-Life, Livability) or the works he’s written for the screen (Todd … Continue reading Writer Jon Raymond’s 20-Year Portrait of the Portland Art Scene

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