Bob Hicks

Portland Center Stage's JAW festival is off and running. Plus: "Reggie Hoops," the return of Eliza Doolittle, site-specific plays in a century-old country store, farewell to Sam Mowry.

Riswold, known for his groundbreaking work at the ad firm Weiden+Kennedy, also made his mark as a visual artist creating sharply pointed and often deeply comic satiric works deflating notorious autocratic strong men.

Cirque's "Kooza" settles under the Big Top for a lengthy run. A fireside chat with the author of the "Narnia" novels. And Larissa FastHorse gives a bold new twist to the musical "Peter Pan."

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.