“I don’t know whether this is terrifying or adorable,” a character says about halfway through Wildwood, the triumphant new film from Hillsboro’s Laika Studios that adapts Colin Melloy and Carson Ellis ...

Note: Central Oregon Symphony opens its season this weekend with three concerts (2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 24, and 2 p.m. on Sunday, October 25), all at Mountain View High School ...

ASHLAND — The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has announced casting and creative teams for its nine-production 2027 season, bringing together veteran company members and new artists for a lineup that ...

From September 17 to 20, the Hollywood Theatre hosted the Sonic Silents festival, curated by Portland-based composer Mark Orton. Sonic Silents paired old silent films with newly commissioned scores, ...

Portland seems to grow a little more Halloweeny every year, while poor old tariff-hobbled Xmas grows a little less—well, Xmasy. It’s part of a national trend. The explanations for it are rarely ...

Who'll manage the downtown performance halls once the city takes them over? So far, mum's the word, although Texas-based ...

Begun in 1998, the annual studio tour, which features more than 100 visual artists showing their work in their studios, will continue Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 17 and 18.

The Sustaining Arts Program grants, which range from $1,000 to $18,000, go to 317 arts and cultural organizations throughout ...

More dance to see this October! Since publishing the October DanceWatch calendar, I’ve added several more performances, workshops, and dance events taking place around Portland, Vancouver, and beyond.

If you are interested in textile design and live on the West Coast, you are currently in luck. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) just opened a major retrospective of works of the collective ...

According to a report from PEN America, during the 2025-26 school year, 11,982 book bans targeted 7,370 unique titles across 114 school districts nationwide. Young Adult books are the most challenged, ...

Portland Playhouse has consistently proven its capacity to make expert use of its small space inside a former Black church in Northeast Portland — and never more so than in its nimble current ...