Arts & Culture
The exterior of Portland Center Stage at the Armory. PCS and many other arts organizations are receiving much needed financial help from the federal CARES Act.
Portland Center Stage reaches first milestone of long journey
One of Oregon’s largest theater companies has exceeded its immediate fundraising goal of $2.5 million - but PCS still has millions more it needs to raise in the coming months.
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Cambridge Dictionary adds ‘skibidi’ and ‘tradwife’ among 6,000 new words
The Cambridge Dictionary has added over 6,000 new words including slang terms like "skibidi," "tradwife" and "delulu." Cambridge Dictionary says it uses the Cambridge English Corpus database of more than 2 billion words to monitor how new words are used, how often and in what contexts.
Terence Stamp, ’60s British film legend and star of ‘Superman,’ dies at 87
The English actor was best known for starring as the arch-villain in the original "Superman" films and for depicting the title character in "Billy Budd."
Rockstar Energy Open brings world’s top skateboarders — and one Seattle teen — to Portland
Nels “Gnarls” Rosen, 14, competes with Olympians and other top skaters this weekend.
La Guelaguetza brings more than a thousand Indigenous Oaxaqueños to Hillsboro
Hundreds of Indigenous Oaxaqueños traveled across the Northwest to celebrate and preserve cultures from Oaxaca, Mexico.
Portland production of Palestinian play explores life in a war zone
“Them,” written by Palestinian playwright Samah Sabawi, will run through Aug 23 at Portland Center Stage's Ellen Bye Studio.
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'.
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.
