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The global social club’s Portland outpost brims with big-name local artists. Nearly 150 works were acquired via a barter system.

Host Christa Wessel spoke with Pink Martini bandleader and Portland pianist Thomas Lauderdale about his upcoming collaboration album with legendary surf rockers Satan’s Pilgrims. Over 25 years in the making, the new album, Thomas Lauderdale Meets The Pilgrims, features new takes on beloved standards such as Night and Day, Malagueña, and George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in...

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There is a new exhibition at Seattle's Pivot Art + Culture dedicated to portraits and exploring how artists seek to convey the essence of their subjects. The artworks included span ...

June Arts: ‘Turning Inward, Judy Chicago’ opens at OJMCHE, Local Features, Portland local Features, Breaking Features alerts for Portland city.

Events Calendar June 1-4   “Over one year ago, Portland Community College moved to remote operations to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. Since then, students, faculty, and staff have been doing heroic work from home, and art students have continued their education remotely, making work in the midst of personal, local, national, global crises and revolutions. This has become a year of raising voices and making art — in spite of, and in response to the challenges of being alive in th...

5 p.m.   “Jonny Sun is back with a collection of essays and other writings in his unique, funny, and heartfelt style. The wonderfully original author of Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too gives us Goodbye, Again (Harper Perennial), a collection of touching and hilarious personal essays, stories, poems — accompanied by his trademark illustrations — covering topics such as mental health, happiness, and what it means to belong. The pieces range from long meditations on topics like...