Portland’s ban on sleeping in public took effect last Nov. 1. Since then, the city’s Impact Reduction Program has swept over ...

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Malcolm Hoover and Mirabai Collins founded Black Futures Farm in 2019. The farm now occupies 1.15 acres in the Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood and offers 17 fruit trees, along with vegetables, ...

Boots Riley’s latest absurdist film, “I Love Boosters,” follows a crew of shoplifters who take on a fashion mogul, inspiring a mass general strike. After watching, I chatted with a coworker about the ...

Is the “song of the summer” dead? I cannot be the arbiter of truth on that one, but it feels like it may be on its deathbed. Or maybe, it’s reinventing itself to better appeal to the world we live in, ...

Year after year, Oregon’s summer fruit bounty always awakens my inner child. Fruit is referred to by some as nature’s candy, so perhaps it makes sense that the child in me gets absolutely giddy about ...

“A few nights ago we decided to challenge ourselves and wreck four camera towers in one night,” said an early-August post on a Portland anarchist message board. Photos of the destroyed mobile camera ...

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Right now, there are three Black mayors in Oregon. By January 2027, there may be none. With midterm elections coming up in November, many are focused on the bigger picture: specifically, U.S. Senate ...