Reasons to Love Portland 2026

The tenants at Sunnyside Community Center include everyone from a youth basketball organization to Alcoholics Anonymous to a felt and fiber artist.

Alessandro Barbieri will compete in the snowboard halfpipe at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games Feb. 11.

“Country music would not accept me if I was a stripper. And then I went and did the country music thing and realized they weren’t going to accept me anyway because I’m a woman with an opinion.”

Vlautin now lives in Scappoose, but his office and heart are both in North Portland.

The musician rates his level of fame as “recognizable to a very small sect” and even wrote a song called “Famous Enough.”

People who join Kier Karson say they do so in part to keep themselves sane as barely trained men in masks terrorize and kill immigrants and American citizens who defend them.

“Frank & Zed” is still raising money on Patreon and has garnered an Instagram following of 125,000-plus.

Portlanders aren’t the only ones using crafting as a tool of resistance, but as crafters will, we are finding our own ways to tweak the pattern.

Andrew Proctor says Portlanders themselves deserve credit: they’re turning out for arts events in higher numbers than ever before.

You’ve got to get groceries anyway; you might as well grab something you’ve never tried before.