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Photo First: Authors, authors, everywhere

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2025/11/08

As the Portland Book Festival and its visiting writers move into high gear, photographer K.B. Dixon portrays 15 homegrown winners of Oregon Book Awards.

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Honoring the past, investing in a future in...

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2025/11/08

At an open house and marketplace at the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde's museum, artists weave a story that carries traditional skills and values into the modern world.

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Oregon gets a new Arts and Culture Director

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2025/11/08

Amy Lewin will oversee the Oregon Arts Commission and Oregon Cultural Trust, and will be a part of Business Oregon's leadership team.

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Thinking about The Big Re/Think

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2025/11/07

Arts & cultural leaders gather to plan a strategy for greater funding from the Oregon Legislature for arts, culture, heritage and humanities, aiming for the 2027 session.

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Something witty this way comes

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2025/11/07

Ashland to host its first-ever Sarcasm Festival Dec. 5–7 as a host of comedians converge on Shakespeare territory and aim for audiences' funny bones.

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Portland Book Festival: Susan Orlean on a ‘Joyride’...

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2025/11/07

The former Portlander's new book is both a memoir and a tutorial on the craft of writing.

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FilmWatch Weekly: Jennifer Lawrence in ‘Die, My...

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2025/11/06

Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, and LaKeith Stanfield, Lynne Ramsay's first feature film since 2017 depicts a woman's frenzied descent into psychosis.

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MusicWatch Monthly: Betterment of self or world

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2025/11/06

In which we consider the problem of “overproduction of cultural goods” in the context of encouraging you to touch grass with Portugal. The Man, Ural Thomas and the Pain, Nasalrod, Madeline Ross, Oregon East Symphony, Metropolitan Youth Symphony, Wonderly, and the Low Bar Chorale.

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A sense of fragrance and bloom: Trio Afiori and...

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2025/11/06

An interview with the British-Chinese composer — commissioned by the recently formed trio of pianist Gloria Chien, clarinetist Anthony McGill, and mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron — ahead of the trio's upcoming Chamber Music Northwest concert.

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‘Live Wire’ launches emergency fund drive

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2025/11/06

The popular Portland-based variety show, broadcast by public radio stations across the nation, is caught in the federal squeeze of public broadcasting and needs to raise $150,000 as the first step in a turnaround campaign.

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In book tour for ‘107 Days,’ Kamala Harris says she...

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2025/11/06

In a nearly sold-out Portland event, Harris tells the audience, “Our democracy relies on our willingness to fight for it.”

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Ten Fifteen Productions: The Astoria theater company...

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2025/11/06

The theme of the community theater’s next season is “America the Beautiful?” And, yes, the question mark is intentional.

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‘Madonna of the Cat’: Everyday emotions, abandoned...

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2025/11/06

Review: The world premiere at 21ten Theatre of Sue Mach’s play filling in the 16-year gap in Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" uses fantasy and whimsy to explore real-life woes.

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The Sonics of Community: A conversation with Friends...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/11/06

Friends After Good Sound are a newcomer to Portland’s experimental music scene. They are a collective of young, queer composers and performers that exclusively play works composed for them by Portland-based composers. Their approach to music has a gaiety and a wicked sense of humor. Hence their name, which abbreviates to a reclaimed slur for […]

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VizArts Monthly: Exuberance

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2025/11/05

November may be short on daylight but it is full of bright and joyful art exhibits and events including the grand opening of Portland Art Museum's Rothko Pavilion.

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Third Rail Rep: Back to the beginning

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2025/11/05

As it enters its 20th season, the company brings back its very first show, Craig Wright's "Recent Tragic Events," for another go-around with original director Scott Yarbrough.

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Portland parks levy passes with reduced support

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2025/11/05

Despite opposition based partly on a higher tax rate and a critical city audit, the measure passes, guaranteeing open parks and parks-run arts programs.

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Portland Book Festival: Reginald Dwayne Betts’...

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2025/11/05

The founder of Freedom Reads, a nonprofit that puts libraries in prisons, says "sometimes one book will change your life.”

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Portland Book Festival: Poems in Mai Der Vang’s...

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2025/11/05

Vang uses the saola — a gazelle-like creature hunted for eons by the Laotian Hmong — to braid strands of history, memory, ecology, and hope.

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2025 Bend Film Festival: A cinematic cornucopia over...

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2025/11/04

Oregon's most prominent film festival returned for its 22nd year with panel discussions, social events, and more than 100 movies from around the globe.

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