While Portland’s Chinese food scene might not have the same nationwide reputation as a place like Los Angeles or New York, to ...

A Reddit comment from a year ago sums up the curiosity long spurred by this house in the Beaumont-Wilshire neighborhood: “The ...

Though today it’s one of the city’s more impressive, high-ceilinged art galleries, Blue Sky’s origins trace to a strip mall ...

My own trip to Aurora on a sunny Friday in late fall is a little smoother. I take TriMet’s 35 through Lake Oswego and West Linn to the end of the line, in downtown Oregon City, and then catch Canby ...

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Daylight is dwindling, Portland’s cold, gloomy days are setting in, and the desire to hunker down indoors is becoming harder to resist. But in many cases, the winter also comes with isolation and ...

The Argay Terrace neighborhood in East Portland is well known as one of the largest tracts of midcentury development in the city—a playground for midcentury design enthusiasts. Take this daylight ...

You’re reading a past edition of our weekly Things to Do column, about the concerts, art shows, comedy sets, movies, readings, and plays we’re attending each week. Read the current installment. Sign ...

Ralph Pugay puts things where they don’t belong. His paintings revolve around witty, cartoonish juxtapositions: vampires at the gym, a “meditation contest” with corporate sponsorship. They collapse ...

In 1935, Portland lumber magnate Aubrey Watzek was looking for an architect to design his house. His friend, self-taught designer John Yeon, submitted a proposal, and the rest, as they say, is history ...