
The Hip-Hop Melting Pot Comes To Portland
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What is hip-hop? Saturday night Portland got a crash course in the various styles, sounds and experiences that define this ever-expanding genre.

The Sonic Judo Of Black Belt Eagle Scout
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The Portland musician uses ethereal vocals and yearning melodies to make her way through loss.

Portland, It's Time We Forgave New Orleans
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For all the Big Easy has taken from Portland this week (ahem, three NBA playoff games), it's given something back in spades.
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R+R = NOW Conquers Portland, Then World
On the second night of Soul'd Out, jazz supergroup and local Portland luminaries grace their respective stages with brave new material.
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10 Questions With: Portland Rapper Mic Capes
Capes discusses becoming a full-time musician, Tupac's influence on his life, the role TriMet played in his writing and why it's so obvious that the president of the United States is a racist.
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Erykah Badu Brings The Soul To Portland
The legendary musician brought the funk to her sould-out (pun intended) performance at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Wednesday.
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L.A. Salami On His New Complex And Emotional Album
The English songwriter and “optimistic cynic” chats with Robin Bacior about his new album "The City Of Bootmakers."
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Video Premiere: Caitlin Jemma - 'XXOO'
Watch the new video from the Eugene-based country soul troubadour.
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Oceanography: Poet Shayla Lawson On Frank Ocean
Lawson’s new collection of work is a dialogue with one of music’s most limber and interesting writers.
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Stars Align In Oregon For 3 Indigenous Playwrights
An auspicious meeting of three playwrights, all indigenous, all women. We got to be in the room with them.
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Watch: The Helio Sequence At The Crystal Ballroom
In our first release from opbmusic's 10th Anniversary Concert, The Helio Sequence plays songs from their 2008 album, "Keep Your Eyes Ahead"
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Painting With A Side Of Aromatherapy In Oregon's Lavender Fields
Every summer, scores of painters descend on the lavender fields of Oregon, creating work, and getting a little aromatherapy as well!
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Album Premiere: Gold Casio - 'SINNERS'
Listen to the new EP from the glistening glitter-pop outfit.
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Sharing The World In 3-D: Rich Dubnow And Oregon’s Iconic View-Master
Meet a photographer who got his start shooting stills for the Oregon-born View-Master company and never stopped loving 3-D.
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Big Changes Ahead For Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2018-19 Season
Oregon Shakespeare Festival adjusts season schedule as it bids goodbye to Artistic Director Bill Rausch.
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How To Spend $7 Million: Artists Rep’s New Reality
Artists Repertory Theatre has started to move on logistics and management of game-changing $7 million gift.
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Novel Set On Oregon Coast Imagines A Reproductive Dystopia
Leni Zumas' novel, set on the Oregon coast, weaves together the lives of four women to explore identity, motherhood and politics.
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Watch: Laura Veirs Live At Old Unconscious Studio
Watch Laura Veirs perform songs from her new record, "The Lookout," at Old Unconscious Studio in North Portland.
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Religion, Libertarian Cults And The American West In 'Wild Wild Country'
Directors Chapman and Maclain Way explore the Rajneeshees — a cult behind the largest U.S. act of bioterrorism — in their new Netflix documentary mini-series, "Wild Wild Country."
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Reactions To 'Hamilton' In Portland From A High School Hamilfan
Second national tour brings Broadway smash to an ecstatic audience.
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Portland Tropical Garden Blooms Fleetingly But Flourishes
A pop-up experiment in social practice finds a temporary home in Director Park.
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'Dreamers' Of Oregon, Captured In Portraits
An Oregon portrait series captures DACA recipients moving into the light.
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10 Questions With: Maya Vivas And Leila Haile Of The Ori Gallery
Creative art duo Maya Vivas and Leila Haile — artists, organizers and community builders — are dedicated to the reclaiming of what they call "the white cube."
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Savor the conversation. Every other Monday, a roundtable of culinary media insiders discuss today’s hot-button topics in food and beverage culture. Hosted by Katherine Cole.