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Ticket Alert: PDX Live, Earth, Wind & Fire, and More Portland Events Going On Sale This Week

Plus, Queens Of The Stone Age and More Event Updates for February 26
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Start making summer plans: The 2026 PDX Live concert series returns this August, bringing acts including MUNA, Japanese Breakfast, and Vince Staples to Pioneer Courthouse Square. Soul and funk band Earth, Wind & Fire will get you dancin’ in September at Edgefield! Plus, alt-rockers Queens Of The Stone Age “showcase all-new musical arrangements of their […]

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Portland’s First-Ever Azn Zine Fest Is Coming to Fubonn This Weekend

Over 100 zinesters will flood the halls of the shopping center on Saturday.
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On Saturday, February 28, Fubonn Shopping Center on Southeast 82nd Avenue will be more than a place to stock up on Asian groceries, get fitted out in an ao dai, and grab Filipino-inflected breakfast at Balong (what more could you want?). In true Portland DIY community spirit, it’ll also be home to Portland’s first Azn […]

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Art Snack: Feed the Mass Opens Old Town Offices, Portland Frog Brigade in Washington DC

Also, there are AT LEAST two World Naked Bike Rides in Portland for 2026, and the TedxPortland line-up is here.
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We’re a little over two weeks out from the Mercury‘s Spring Arts Issue—look for it starting March 11—and folks the art is arting. I want to put it on your radar that the Mercury moved back to monthly in 2026, and you’ll now be able to find new print issues every second Wednesday. Or you can […]

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The Mercury’s Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for February 23-March 1

This week: zines at Fubonn, psychedelic theater, and the Sun Ra Arkestra.
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It got 10 degrees warmer, and I got 10 degrees more confident that I should be out IN THE WINDS, soaring free to a Sam Shepard staging about arts under capitalism or a MOTHERFUCKING GEM SHOW at OMSI. [It’s agate and minerals, calm down. -eds.] In this week’s Do This, Do That we’ve got the […]

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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Portland This Weekend: Feb 20–22, 2026

Zwickelmania, Movie Madness VHS Swap, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $20
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Your plans are in good hands with weekend picks from Zwickelmania to the Movie Madness VHS Swap and from A Beat Happening’s February DJ and Beats Showcase to a Black History Month Market and Celebration. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week. FRIDAY LIVE MUSIC Zoé Basha with Clyde and the MilltailersEnchanting, […]

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David Hockney Is So Changeable

Portland Art Museum’s new exhibition shows the artist’s evolving style across 60 years and 200 artworks.
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“David sees the world backward,” says Doug Roberts, a Los Angeles art dealer and longtime friend of David Hockney. Roberts was appearing on a panel about the artist, as part of Portland Art Museum’s (PAM) new exhibition tracing 60 years of Hockney’s work. He meant it as praise. Hockney, whose sunny California scenes somehow simmer […]

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Ticket Alert: Tame Impala, Bruce Springsteen, and More Portland Events Going On Sale This Week

Plus, Hilary Duff and More Event Updates for Thursday, February 19
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Hey now, hey now, these tix are what dreams are made of! Psych pop-rock project Tame Impala brings special guest Dominic Fike along on a North American trek. The Boss Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band have announced a tour with anti-Trump administration messaging “in celebration and in defense of America.” Plus, former Disney […]

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