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Not gonna lie, I wasn't blown away by Portland's overall restaurant scene this year—there were a few promising openings, but the usual frenetic creative pace just wasn't there.

A City Council's uphill battle to regulate homelessness. A commissioner shrouded in controversy. A city government, transformed.

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Cool People with Tacky Necklaces President Biden hosted a little get-together to give out Congressional Medals of Freedom to a bunch of

The plot: A black CNN contributor, Muncie Daniels (Colman Domingo), is wrongly accused of killing a very popular neo-Nazi influencer Mark Simon

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HUMP! Film Festival was a smashing success. Fast forward to 2025, as HUMP! marks two full decades of celebrating human sexuality through

For the past two years, Portlanders had their January calendars filled up with local music shows, thanks to Portland Music Month (PMM): an annual

Sorry, but I'm unwilling to share your list of new pronouns with my readers, listeners, and followers, as there are currently more than enough

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