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Making a Scene

Gallery gal Elizabeth Leach has spent 25 years getting Portland’s art crowd up to speed.

02/13/2026ByElizabeth Armstrong Moore

Real Estate

Property Watch: After Years of Remodels, a SW Portland Home Returns to Its Roots

Emil Schacht was an early adopter of the Craftsman style in Portland. See how this house pays tribute.

02/13/2026ByMelissa Dalton

seeing things

Things to Do in Portland This Week, February 2026

Imani Perry and Keisha N. Blain celebrate Black history at the Schnitz, and other events in town.

02/12/2026ByMatthew Trueherz

Room for More

Potlucks Are the Feasts That Meet the Moment

They ask for our participation twice: first as cooks, then as diners.

12/22/2025ByLola Milholland

Malheur

Ten Years Ago, Outlaws Took Over an Oregon Refuge

Now, they've taken even more.

12/15/2025ByLeah SottileIllustrations byMatthew Woodson

Transit Trip

Antique Store Hopping in Aurora via TriMet and Canby Area Transit

Plus wine tasting, shortbread samples, relics of a utopia, and so many plug-in plastic Jesuses.

12/02/2025ByMargaret Seiler

History Lesson

Dining Out in the Ancient World

Two Portland restaurants are turning to the distant past for inspiration today.

11/19/2025ByBen Coleman

Transit Trip

A Fall Day in Troutdale via TriMet’s 77

Find celery lore, lots of happy dogs, and no line at Sugarpine.

11/17/2025ByMargaret Seiler

Food History

The 25 Restaurants That Made Portland

Portland was not a food city in the year 2000. Over the past quarter century, these restaurants changed that.

11/14/2025Edited byMatthew TrueherzByPortland Monthly StaffIllustrations byMax-O-Matic

Real Estate

Property Watch: A Rare Lake Oswego Plywood Home

It's said there are only seven of these early houses, designed by Pacific Northwest modern master John Yeon, left in the city.

11/07/2025ByMelissa Dalton

Wine History

5 Wines That Made the Willamette Valley

From award-winning bottles to new movements, these are the wines that shaped Oregon wine country.

10/31/2025ByAlex FraneIllustrations byAmanda Lanzone

Things to Do

A Grimm Play for a Grim Period in History

A dystopian play of “The Twelve Dancing Princesses," and more events in town.

10/16/2025ByIsabel Lemus Kristensen

Oregon Trails

The Boom-and-Bust Tales of 8 Oregon Ghost Towns

Hopeful homesteaders, gold mining boomtowns, and resorts that slid into the sea.

10/15/2025ByRebecca JacobsonIllustrations byJordan Kay

Real Estate

Property Watch: This Cottage on Peacock Lane Got Snapped Up

With vintage vibes, it's ready for seasonal shindigs on the historic Southeast street that was planned as an English village.

10/03/2025ByMelissa Dalton

Real Estate

Property Watch: Buy the House That Started Sunriver Resort

Midcentury camp vibes prevail in the original 1969 home of the developer of Sunriver Resort, just outside Bend.

09/26/2025ByMelissa Dalton

Time Warp

50 Years ofRocky Horror at the Clinton Street Theater

Portland’s favorite single-screen theater hosts the longest continuously running movie of any theater, anywhere.

09/26/2025ByMatthew TrueherzPhotography byMichael Raines

WEIRD OUT

Visit These 13 Oregon Oddities and Roadside Attractions

Our state has shipwrecks, shoe trees, and sinkholes awaiting you.

09/16/2025ByIsabel Lemus Kristensen,Margaret Seiler, andPortland Monthly Staff

Superfan

At Chin’s Kitchen in Hollywood, It’s Always Soup Season

Patrick Herlihy is working his way through the menu at the Chinese restaurant, but a steaming bowl is a must.

09/12/2025ByMargaret SeilerPhotography byMichael Raines

Land Rights

The Fight for Willamette Falls

As tribal communities and local governments imagine a future for the country’s second-largest waterfall, they’ve exposed the long-standing rifts born from the wounds of colonization.

08/18/2025ByKarina BrownPhotography byKari Rowe

Real Estate

Property Watch: Pristine Midcentury on the Market for the First Time

Built in 1950 and exquisitely restored 70 years later, everything from the original woodwork to the new Lacanche range shines.

07/11/2025ByMelissa Dalton

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