Bob Hicks

As the fall theater season rolls out and the big dogs get ready to bark, the revival of a century-old sci-fi play about humans and human-like robots imagines an unnerving new world.

A Labor Day weekend fixture in downtown Portland since 1997, the free festival offers booths for more than 100 artists, plus food, music, demonstrations, and hands-on activities.

As the labor movement faces new challenges, a look at art that reveals the highs and lows of work and its significance in life.

An adjacent restaurant fire Aug. 5 poured smoke and soot into the blue-chip gallery, coating everything. Now restorers are beginning to clean 1,500 artworks, and the gallery hopes to reopen in December or January.

The actor, director and writer, whose professional career spanned almost 60 years, is dead at 87, leaving a brilliant legacy ranging from Hollywood to Portland to Pakistan.

Book review: The Portland writer's new book of essays is a fascinating mix of memoir and social observation, from Willamette Valley fields to Pablo Neruda's footsteps and more.

General operating grants from Portland's new Office of Arts & Culture aid 80 organizations – and some smaller groups say the grants are going disproportionately to the city's big companies.

Taft is pleased to have acted as legal counsel to Signal Hill Equity Partners (Signal Hill) in its investment with CSArch to support the launch of a national architecture, engineering, and design platform focused on serving social infrastructure end markets.

A continuing revitalization-grants program of the Oregon Community Foundation has awarded $578,000 so far to arts and cultural groups from Coos Bay to Bend to Baker City and beyond.

Parsons, known and admired for her collage work and her long teaching career at The Museum Art School, was active as an artist well into the 21st century.