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Music Medieval on XRAY Serenades on Sunday Mornings
The hourlong program primarily celebrates the sounds of Western classical music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Residents of Holladay Park Plaza Hold Weekly Trump Protest on the Eastside
“I’m still out here politicking.”
Red Pig Garden Tools Is the Longest-Running U.S. Blacksmith Specializing in Hand-Forged Garden Tools
The West Linn workshop is the longest-running U.S. blacksmith specializing in hand-forged garden tools.
Rent-A-Butch Offers Handiwork Services to Queer Portlanders
“However gay you may be, your handyworkers are gayer.”
Trivia Night at Rose City Book Pub Brings a Highbrow Trivia A-Game
“I like to say that I can write 10 questions about anything.”
Bump, Set, Dyke Is Portland’s Inclusive Lesbian-Centered Volleyball Team
“There is just something to be said about different generations all together as a collective.”
Portland Mathematician David George Models Destruction From the Cascades Volcano Observatory
The mathematician uses data to model potential landslides and lahars from volcanic eruptions.
Kevin Castillo’s OG Poke Offers Hawaiian-Quality Poke Near Portland State University
“People overcomplicate poke. It should be simple.”
DJ Chaach Brings His Open-Mic DJ Series to Afterlife
Chaach has been known to help anyone who shows enough potential to get stage time at White Owl Social Club.
Jeff Chow Returns to Mama Chow’s Kitchen After a Treacherous Fall, With a Little Help From the Community
The cart owner came back in February and has been cooking through his recovery.