Film Review: Riotsville, U.S.A. Is a Surreal History Lesson on the Militarization of the US Police

Archival footage shows racism was at the core of how law enforcement responds to riots today.

Zyah Belle's Full Length Record Yam Grier Has Arrived

Plus, upcoming shows from Moorea Masa (on tour with Son Little) and the Delines HEAR IN PORTLAND.

Brown Calculus' André Burgos Boldly Solos Into Space

His new album as Brown Calvin has a cosmic concept.

Downtown Portland Could Get a Comics Museum

Pacific Northwest comics world professionals want to create a Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts.

Earth II Is Four Decades of Disaster Movies Recut Into Climate Change Reality

"Time and time again, climate change is reduced to just a tsunami or just a twister or whatever."

Dame D.O.L.L.A. on Fatherhood, Ural Thomas and the Pain on Mississippi

Here at HEAR IN PORTLAND, we wish you a very Harry Styles Harryween.

TBA Review: They Can Never Burn the Stars Is TBA at Its Best

Standing in certain locations turned viewers’ bodies into conduits for deep vibrating bass lines.

2022 Portland Book Festival Author Highlights: Selma Blair, Kate Beaton, and (Of Course) Lidia Yuknavitch

"Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen" authors Jon Gray, Pierre Serrao, and Lester Walker will appear in conversation with Gregory Gourdet.

You're Wrong About Is the Podcast That Gets It Right

Portland Journalist Sarah Marshall Speaks Wry Revisionist Truth to Power

Start Your Time-Based Art Engines

PICA's 2022 TBA festival schedule reveals themes of personal journeys, communal healing, cosmic connections, and sensory immersion.

Portland Playhouse Returns to the Short, Local Films of Wonderland

Short films are where the filmmakers of tomorrow are being born.

Expanding the Lose Yr Mind Music Festival

Co-founder Elizabeth Elder worked to grow the music festival's consciousness past psych rock and across multiple venues

Film Review: Regina Hall Is Divine in Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

She's a genius.

An Incoming Storm of Tegan and Sara Content

In this week's Hear in Portland: a new Wynne single drops, and we celebrate Beyoncé's birthday all damn day.

For National Cinema Day SOME Portland Movie Theaters Will Offer $3 Admission

Are movie theaters that you like participating in this new, national tradition?

Festival News from Lose Yr Mind and The Kidz Outside

The Last Artful, Dodgr's debut album drops and everything else you should Hear In Portland!

Does Portland Still Demand Lez Stand Up?

"This is a sort of toe-dip," founder Kirsten Kuppenbender said of the queer comedy showcase's tentative return.

Sunbathe and Spelljams Rock a Basement Near You

Spend summer's hot days with tabletop-inspired tunes, PDX Pop Now! 2022, and live shows HEAR IN PORTLAND!

Dundee Lodge Campout Kicks off its 2022 Festival This Weekend

They've added single-day tickets, more food (and coffee!) vendors, and a one day Mississippi Records deal.

Comedian/Actress/Podcaster Amanda Seales Makes Her Portland Debut

We Love a Creatively Fluid and Outspoken Black Queen

The Sávila Show You've Been Waiting For

Plus, a Brown Calvin (of Brown Calculus) Record Release Show—It's All HEAR IN PORTLAND!

Our Favorite Moments of Pickathon 2022

GZA, Sampa the Great, copious quantities of UFOs, and much more!

Kevin Sampsell’s Creative Chopping Block

I Made An Accident collects darkly humorous collages from a celebrated Portland author

D Worthy, Mahalia, and Kamaiyah Live Shows

Plus, the Last Artful, Dodgr Announces Her Debut Full-Length—It's All HEAR IN PORTLAND!

Things Not to Miss at Pickathon 2022

Here are our live music picks and a few tips on what look for at this year's festival.

Wellness at Pickathon 2022: Yoga, Sound Baths, DIY Aromatherapy, and More!

Why the music festival expanded its wellness programming for the first post-pandemic year back.

Comedian Kate Murphy Announces Her Return to Portland

To celebrate she put together a stand-up night with way too many outstanding comedians.

Sam Now Documents a Stunning Family Mystery

Half-Brothers Spend Decades Trailing a Mother's Unexpected Departure

Killer Prophets?

Leah Sottile's When the Moon Turns to Blood Examines Mormon Extremism at the Roots of Alleged Murders

Floating World Comics Is Moving Out of Old Town... to the Mall

After 16 years downtown, the comics culture hub moves into the Lloyd Center Mall's burgeoning arts district.

Pickathon 2022 Is Getting a Remodel, New Stages, and a Nature-Inspired Layout

This year’s fest will take advantage of its gorgeous natural setting, and create “a new world” for festival goers to explore.

Podcast But Outside, but Stand-Up and Inside

Andrew Michaan on his two-day tour with fellow comedian Brent Weinbach

The Shoebox Is Now 21ten Theatre

And two Portland actresses are now Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

Who's Who at the Portland Sketch Comedy Festival 2022

Relative unknowns (like TSTMRKT) and satire standards (such as Brunch) fill the fourth year's line-up.

Portland Poet Matthew Dickman Airs His Cleanly Folded Laundry

Husbandry is his most focused collection of poems to date.

Dragging a Grand Piano Through Rural Oregon with Pink Martini's Hunter Noack

Fuji to Hood: A Beer Festival Celebrating Brewers in Oregon and Japan

Hear in Portland: Wavy Josef at the Thesis, Zyah Belle & "DND," and Givēon Comes to Portland

Every One of Us Brings Madgesdiq-CEG to the Square, Return of the Day Fade And—Once Again—Raving about Fountaine

Lidia Yuknavitch Q & A: Portland's Proud Misfit Author on Her Novel Thrust, Climate Change, and Keeping Creativity Flowing

The Creeping Catharsis of the 2022 Portland Horror Film Festival is Available in the Theater and Online

Get Good in the Hood, Twerk It at Laffy Taffy, or Chill in with New Tracks from Lambo Lawson and Wynne

Dundee Lodge Campout Is Like a Smaller, Weirder DIY Pickathon

Portland Downtown Central Library Will Close for Three Months in August

Six Graphic Novels By Trans Cartoonists That You Should Read Immediately

Steven “Agent of Chaos” Wilber Returns to Portland with a Brand New Comedy Experience

A New True Crime Podcast from KGW Carefully Tells the Story of Murdered Trans Vancouver Teen Nikki Kuhnhausen

Pride Northwest and QDoc Collaboration, "Pride Pics," Centers Black Filmmakers

Kimber K. Shade and Isaiah Esquire Created Blackout as a Place to Be Queer and Unapologetically Black