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Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival: Sips & sounds in the...

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2025/08/20

This year's 25th festival, featuring Stanley Jordan, Arturo Sandoval, Shemekia Copeland and more, takes over Esther Short Park Friday-Sunday, Aug. 22-24.

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Heather Quinn wins 2025 Waterston Desert Writing...

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2025/08/19

The Minnesota resident studied at Portland State University and writes about the desert landscape surrounding the Salton Sea.

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DramaWatch: New plays, new seasons – change is in...

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2025/08/19

The Hatchery is introducing two shows at its festival of new works, and Milagro Theatre is premiering “Worry Dolls” by Portland native Maya Malan Gonzalez. Plus: Other opening plays, continuing shows, and news from Portland Center Stage and Broadway Rose.

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Elda Calrissian’s hidden beauty

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2025/08/19

The Salem musician's newest album, "Path to Elda," traces in music and lyrics her journey to her transgender self.

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‘Them’: Life in a city under siege

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2025/08/18

In the University of Oregon’s riveting production of Salmah Sabawi’s play at Portland Center Stage, characters still laugh and love in the midst of war.

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‘Colors of the West’ at Mindpower Gallery in Reedsport

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2025/08/17

Photographer Bob Keefer delivers western landscapes with a painterly twist to a warm welcome at Reedsport’s enterprising downtown gallery.

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But these are inhuman: Paul Jacobs and “The Art of...

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2025/08/17

The superlative organist, a long-time OBF favorite, tackled Bach’s late masterpiece on Central Lutheran Church’s Brombaugh organ.

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Remembering Mandy Andersen

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2025/08/16

The comic and dramatic actor, part of an acting family and a welcome figure on stages from Portland to Ashland, gathered a host of friends in her 35 years of life.

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A photographers’ alphabet, A to Z

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2025/08/16

From "aperture" to "zoom lens" and 24 letters between, K.B. Dixon covers the alphabetical waterfront of the camera zealots' world.

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FilmWatch Weekly: Red Riding Hood revised in ‘To Kill...

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2025/08/14

Also this week: Vanessa Kirby in the Portland-filmed "Night Always Comes," Jack and Jill and supernatural thrills in "Went Up the Hill," and the life of Donn Beach, inventor of tiki bar culture, in "The Donn of Tiki."

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Siletz’s Nesika Illahee Pow-Wow is a chance to...

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2025/08/13

The annual event, held last week, is both an act of commemoration and resilience. "For me these steps aren’t just a dance, it’s reconnecting with Mother Earth, with water and air,” says one dancer.

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Punching camp: House of Scordatura’s revival of...

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2025/08/13

HoS brought the local legend – a rescored, live-foleyed, live-dubbed production of the infamous Turkish remake – to Hollywood Theatre in June.

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‘The Space Between’ work and the light in people’s eyes

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2025/08/13

Neeraj Narayan's bold and piercing portraits at Salem's Stefani Art Gallery find the strength and dignity in their subjects' faces (and sometimes, the backs of their heads).

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Celebrating 50 years of Oregon’s Percent for Art in...

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2025/08/13

Oregon Arts Commission and Travel Oregon launch the "50 for 50" campaign highlighting Oregon's Percent for Art collection. The new initiative includes interactive maps, archival highlights, and collection insights.

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Francis Ford Coppola wants to save the future, but he...

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2025/08/12

After a screening of "Megalopolis" at the Tomorrow Theater, the legendary filmmaker discussed education reform and the precarious state of modern American society, among many other topics.

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In “Camas Pioneers,” author Sally Alves details the...

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2025/08/12

The fact-filled local history, published by the Camas-Washougal Historical Society, provides illuminating glimpses of residents in 19th- and early 20th-century Southwest Washington.

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Jazz hero Nancy King: An appreciation

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2025/08/12

"Nobody sang like Nancy": The Oregon jazz queen, who could leap tall octaves in a single breath and scatter syllables like speeding bullets, has died at 85.

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In Philomath, Maxtivity maximizes the creative ...

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2025/08/12

Through collaborative arts, a small-town nonprofit offers historically disadvantaged groups and others a place of wonder, welcome, and connection.

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Portland arts and culture on the November ballot...

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2025/08/11

The city's parks provide a wide variety of arts events, especially in summer. The new five-year levy proposal, which raises rates, is key to keeping those events coming.

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Vancouver Symphony scores trifecta at the Vancouver...

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2025/08/11

The VSO, performing a series of outdoor concerts at Esther Short Park, welcomed guests Mark and Maggie O’Connor, Renée Fleming, and Sharon Isbin.

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