Arts & Culture
Six-year-old Louie checks out the some teeny, tiny books behind a metal door build into the fence of artist Rachael Harms Mahlandt on July 11, 2025.
Finding ‘Sidewalk Joy’ around Portland and beyond
Joy is easy to find, if you know where to look! Across many neighborhoods in Portland, you’ll find snippets of sidewalk joy — mini galleries, trinket and mug exchanges, art displays and seed swaps. Now a Portland artist has compiled a map of local, national and international locations of 'Sidewalk Joy'.
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Just over a century ago, an Oregon woman’s book created an enduring mystery
The enduring mystery of Cottage Grove’s Opal Whiteley.
Federal judge sides with Oregon and federal councils, rules cuts to humanities grants were ‘unlawful’
The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.
Italian Riviera LEGO set designed by former Portland high school student will soon be available
Alex Sahli was a junior at Grant High School in Portland when he submitted a design for a LEGO set. The toy maker is now releasing his design for purchase as a 3,000-piece set of the Italian Riviera.
Confederate statue toppled during Black Lives Matter protests will be reinstalled
The statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate general and Freemason leader, was vandalized and taken down on Juneteenth in 2020. It is the only statue of a Confederate general in Washington, D.C.
Loni Anderson, star of hit TV series ‘WKRP in Cincinnati,’ dies at 79
Loni Anderson died at a Los Angeles hospital following a prolonged illness, according to her longtime publicist, Cheryl J. Kagan.
At Work With: Cannon Beach head lifeguard and fire lieutenant keeps calm and respects the ocean
There's a lot to be aware of when visiting Oregon beaches, and some coastal cities have lifeguards on duty to patrol the beach and keep beachgoers safe. To learn more about the job, we spent the day with Cannon Beach's head lifeguard, Lt. Koa Lyu.
Bend quietly considered pulling funding for sole Juneteenth event over Facebook post
A Bend resident complained about Joslyn Stanfield's post which excoriated white people who she said had acted in racist and divisive ways, telling them they weren't invited to the celebration meant to center Black people.
One of the West Coast’s deadliest shipwrecks happened 160 years ago off the Southern Oregon Coast
160 years ago, the S.S. Brother Jonathan sank just south of the Oregon border in what remains one of the region’s deadliest maritime disasters. Over 200 souls, and a fortune in gold coins, went down with the ship.
Will the Kennedy Center become the Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts?
The GOP bill is called the "Make Entertainment Great Again Act," but it focuses on one particular venue: the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Significant obstacles stand in the way.
Workers complain of bad management, poor conditions at Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire
We'll learn more from a reporter who looked into these complaints.
