Portland

CD Skehan This week in The Most Portland Shit Ever, I tried goat yoga at a local family farm. “What the hell is goat yoga?” you might be asking. It’s a fad that started in 2016 in which goats participate in yoga by walking through the class, sitting and/or standing near or on its participants, […]

Oaks Park Portland’s quaintest little amusement park needs your help! Oaks Park announced on their Facebook page last week that it will be getting a new roller coaster (projected to open in the spring of 2018), and they want you to name it! I can’t possibly imagine anything that could go wrong with this naming […]

PAIGE MEHRER At a lecture in Portland last October, Isabel Wilkerson—the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who wrote about the great migration of Black Americans from the south to the north—said that when people leave a place, it’s often a referendum on the very place they leave. So then what does it mean when I, and other […]

You will be missed. Bri Brey An iconic Portland building is being demolished today: The Ancient Order of United Workmen Temple on the corner of SW 2nd and Taylor appears to be coming down. The 125-year-old building was designed by Justus Krumbein, a prominent Portland architect who also designed the second state capitol in Salem. […]

NASA Are you not leaving Portland for the eclipse because you don’t want to wear a diaper while stuck in traffic for 15 hours just to see three minutes of yarn pouring out of the sun? That’s okay! You can see 99.4 percent of this meteorological event from right here inside Portland. It’s no totality, […]