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Portland’s Leading Arts Organizations Hate the Arts Tax, Too

What was supposed to be a long-sought infusion of cash has turned out to be just a trickle, accompanied by bad PR.

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

Morphing From Moxie

Briley Neugebauer and her fellow dancers at Moxie Contemporary Ballet had a great gig at Portland’s newest, body-positive ballet—until the company suddenly shut down

In Search of the Miraculous

Can you still consider yourself an artist if you no longer make art? This is a question at the heart of I Want to Destroy You, Theatre Vertigo’s thought-provoking world premiere

The Lady in the Van

If every homeless person were as endearingly crotchety as Dame Maggie Smith in The Lady in the Van, we’d all let transients live in our driveways

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Oregon May Have Enough Vaccines for All Willing Adults by April 21

Multnomah County health workers vaccinated. (Motoya Nakamura / Multnomah County)

Oregon Is the First U.S. State to Have an Identified Case of the Latest COVID-19 “Variant of Concern”

Vaccinations at Oregon Convention Center. (Jeff Andersen / OHSU)

How Long Do You Have to Have Lived in Portland Before You’re Allowed to Be Insufferable About It?

Billy Ray's Neighborhood Dive. (Suzie Gotis)

Readers Respond to Portland Losing Its Federal “Anarchist” Designation

Winter sports in Pioneer Courthouse Square. (Brian Burk)

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A Portland Parent Found Her Daughter’s Textbook Racist. Her Teacher Has a Contract That Says He Could Use It Anyway. 271

Hey, Midwestern Transplants: You Can’t Drive in Portland Snow, Either 208

Readers Respond to the Prospects of Downtown Portland 137

Forget Pompeii. Is Portland the Next Detroit? 137

Face Masks Aren’t Going Out of Style. Maybe You Should Wear Two. 118

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