Arts & Culture

Dust fills the air at Kirsch Family Farms in Saint Paul, Ore. during the hazelnut harvest on Oct. 7, 2025.
Oregon’s hazelnut harvest could break records
2025 is expected to be one of the best years ever for Oregon hazelnuts, that's despite an ongoing and mutating hazelnut blight affecting crops throughout the Willamette Valley.
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Read all about it: What to know ahead of the 2025 Portland Book Festival
As the city-wide celebration of books enters its 21st year, voracious readers across the Pacific Northwest are readying their tote bags and updating their to-be-read lists in preparation for the literary wonderland.

What is it like to be a rancher at 4,200 feet elevation in Eastern Oregon?
“It’s stressful, but it’s a fantastic lifestyle,” said Sumpter Valley rancher Dean Defrees on OPB’s “At Work With” series.

What does ’67′ mean? Dictionary.com’s 2025 word of the year has no definition
"67," pronounced "six seven," spread from a rap song, through sports and social media, to classrooms and homes across the U.S. But even the artist who coined it struggles to define it.

These Oregon theaters have been entertaining moviegoers for 100 years
For multiple independent cinemas, 2025 marks a century of welcoming film fans.

White House fires entire commission that reviews designs for federal buildings
The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings.

Rediscovering rural Southern Oregon through historic photos
Decades after newspaper publisher Amos Voorhies died, a chance find at a garage sale revived thousands of rare photographs of early Josephine County life.

German police bust an art forgery ring trying to sell fake Picasso, Rembrandt works
The alleged leader of the scheme, a 77-year-old German man from Bavaria, also tried to sell counterfeit works supposedly by Frida Kahlo, Amadeo Modigliani and Peter Paul Rubens, authorities say.

June Lockhart, beloved mother figure from ‘Lassie’ and ‘Lost In Space,’ dies at 100
The actor, whose career spanned films, TV dramas and soap operas, was beloved for her roles in "Lassie" and "Lost In Space." She died on Thursday of natural causes, a family friend said.

First, came the Louvre heist. Then came the memes
From brands and influencers to a viral "Inspector Clouseau," the world's most glamorous theft is also quickly becoming one of the year's most profitable memes.

Picasso portrait of muse Dora Maar, long hidden from view, sells for $37 million
"Bust of a Woman with a Flowered Hat," a vividly hued Picasso portrait of longtime muse and partner Dora Maar, had remained hidden from public view for more than eight decades.