Things are slowly heating up in the campaign around Measure 26, the “Arts Education and Access Fund” ballot measure that aims to restore arts funding in Portland’s six school districts this November. The measure was officially okayed for the ballot on September 4th. It may come as a surprise that despite Portland’s thriving arts and […]
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Five Things I Learned on the Dill Pickle Club’s Hidden Portland Walking Tour
This morning, I went on the first of a new series of walking tours that Portland arts non-profit the Dill Pickle Club is putting on this fall. Today’s tour was all about seeing and learning about so-called “hidden gems” in downtown Portland. The series itself, which runs through December, will delve into neighborhoods all throughout […]
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Views From the Street: Our Favorites From the Paul Ryan Fundraiser Protest
So this afternoon, Paul Ryan gave a fundraiser speech at the Governor Hotel downtown. You may remember the upset about food carts having to close when Mitt Romney came to town last June. That wasn’t the case this time around. Regardless, Romney/Ryan opponents, namely Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon and NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon, came to […]