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The ’99-’00 Blazers Squad Get Their Roses
The almost-champs were honored in a halftime ceremony at Moda Center.
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Log Lady Look-Alike Contest Photos: She’s Got the Look (and the Log)
From solemn stares to statement specs, contestants channeled Twin Peaks’ quirkiest oracle.
On Saturday, Twin Peaks fans donned flannel and clutched timber in tribute to the show’s mysterious Log Lady. Photographer Elayna Yussen captured the lewks.
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Photos: Thousands of Portlanders Fill Pioneer Square on May Day 2025
Sandwiched between two other pro-worker, anti-Trump rallies, the square drew the day’s largest gathering.
Thousands of Portlanders flooded into Pioneer Courthouse Square on May 1 to celebrate May Day, AKA International Worker’s Day, and more generally, protest cruel and unlawful actions by the Trump administration. Sandwiched between two nearby gatherings, the Pioneer Square event was brief, running from 4:30-6 pm. It drew those attending an earlier march at Portland […]
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Portland Sledding Photos With Sound Effects
Sweet jumps, fluorescent ski jackets, and adorable children being dragged around on sleds after the city’s 2025 snowstorm.
SHOOP, BYZAA, WOASH
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PHOTO ESSAY: Best in Bow-Wow-Wow
The Rose City Classic dog show brings out the best in poochies—and their owners.
A place: The Portland Exposition Center in Vanport, on Saturday, January 18. There are dogs everywhere, every kind you can possibly imagine: Bernese Mountain Dog. Shiba Inu. Whippets. Honest to god, straight from the catalog Dalmatians. A small baby beagle, ambling around the show floor. Chao Chaos. Poodles, poodles, poodles, everywhere. Big dogs. Fluffy dogs. […]
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The Cowboys Are Back in Town
Ahead of the 8 Seconds Juneteenth Rodeo, bullfighters and riders amble through Portland’s nightlife.
It’s 8:30 on a bright Friday evening, and a white pickup truck rumbles through the streets of Portland’s Pearl District. Five guys in big-brimmed hats, western shirts, and jeans sit along the rail of the truck bed, shouting at people as they roll by. Bullfighters Christian Mills and AJ Neal, bull riders KeAon Griffin and […]
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Photo Essay: Portlanders Young and Old Celebrate Earth Day With Making Earth Cool
Under the pomp and ceremony of a costume parade on a beautiful spring day lay a deep reservoir of disquiet for what the future might hold.
On Saturday, a parade of Portlanders marched from Sunnyside Environmental School through quiet inner Eastside residential blocks, celebrating Earth Day with the pageantry of handmade costumes and musical accompaniment from Portland’s own Unpresidented Brass Band. Led by a decommissioned fire engine, the procession of approximately 200 people—most dressed as animals and plants—drew neighbors and diners […]
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Photo Essay: Pickathon 2023 in Pictures
Trippy art and unforgettable live shows from the annual music festival at Pendarvis Farm.
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Photo Essay: A Glimpse of the 8 Seconds Juneteenth Rodeo
The sold-out event was organized by Portland-based photographer Ivan McClellan, who has been documenting Black cowboy culture across North America for the better part of the last decade.
Athletes from around the country and spectators from all over the metro area converged on Sunday June 17, at the Portland Expo Center, for a historic first annual 8 Seconds Juneteenth Rodeo. This sold-out event was organized by Portland-based photographer Ivan McClellan, who has been documenting Black cowboy culture across North America for the better […]
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Photos of the #BlackLivesMatter and #DontShootPDX Protests Last Night
Christopher Keith Garcia Christopher Keith Garcia Christopher Keith Garcia With the recent police killings, protest flooded the streets last night. The Black Lives Matter protest I attended earlier in the evening met with another protest by Don’t Shoot PDX. The two groups became a mass that made its way to the Justice Center and later […]
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Who’s Last, for Real This Time: The Who at Moda Center, May 17, 2016
Christopher Keith Garcia “Let’s get together before we get much older.” It’s not very likely. Last night the Who played Portland for what is probably going to be the final time, and it was, against virtually every odd in the book, absolutely fantastic. The original band’s two surviving members—Roger Daltrey, 72, and Pete Townshend, who […]
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Portland’s Pretty: Expressway to Yr Skull
Marissa Sullivan HELMING ONE of Portland’s more interesting dance nights, Expressway to Yr Skull (at the Lovecraft every first Saturday), are DJs MisPrid and nightbabe. While MisPrid has been DJing at the SE Grand venue since 2012 (and at the now-shuttered East End all the way back to 2004-ish), nightbabe is fairly new to the […]