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Spring Arts 2025
THE TRASH REPORT: Special Spring Arts Trash!
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What’s Happening With the Live Nation Development in Portland’s Central Eastside?
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Can Portland Be a Music Capital Again?
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Nail Art Is Art!
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Why Restore Waterlilies Now?
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Gallery Round-Up: Abstract Artists in Cahoots
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Sounds Struggling to Stay Words
For the past six years, Patricia Váz-quez Gómez has worked closely with youth and families in Oregon’s Mayan Indigenous diaspora. A multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Portland and Mexico City, she collaborated on cultural events, art workshops, and Mayan language classes. Neither she nor the children were fluent in Yucatec Mayan, an Indigenous language […]
Tootsie Answers the Call
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Portland’s Unexpected Book Corridor
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Swiftly Tilting Portland
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Torrey Peters’ Stag Dance Poses the Right Questions About Gender at the Right Time
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