4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (398+ words) Willamette Week Shows of the Week: Haute & Freddy Ride the Clown Wave to Portland Also: Mount Eerie plays Rev Hall, and Beyoncé collaborator DJ Lag plays Barn Radio. Phil Elverum, born 1978, is one of the most purely talented singer-songwriters of…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (511+ words) Willamette Week Get Busy: What to Do in Portland (Sept. 9–15, 2026) Nerd out at Geek Week, help out at the Standard’s Volunteer Expo, and dance at DJ Action Slacks’ vinyl party. HANG OUT: Sneaky Sasquatch PDX: Artist Meet and Greet…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (582+ words) Regardless of genre, you know an earworm when you hear it. The Oregon Symphony, and many other symphonies around the world, have been leveraging that dynamic for years—but in reverse. But pops programming has grown more sophisticated as lines…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (966+ words) Your SNAP card can get you a lot more than groceries. Since 2011, an initiative called Arts for All PDX has made $5 tickets to arts venues across the city available to Oregonians enrolled in the federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program—just…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (860+ words) There’s a lull in the minutes before doors open at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Hundreds crowd the main entrance, eyeing the dozen uniforms that stand in their way. But Lance McNamara, a local usher, has his own way of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (87+ words) Shadow Work by Rebecca Sanborn Linda’s Head by Helen Grimdark by Saoirse Dream Things Left Unseen by Pete Swanson and Ilyas Ahmed There Is No Evil by How Strange It Is See the rest of the 2026 Fall Arts Guide here!...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (146+ words) Off Book: The Improvised Musical This play by Douglas Lyons takes place inside the fictional restaurant Bianca’s, and all of the audience’s seats are arranged as if they were fellow diners. Table 17 is about two exes, Jada and Dallas, who…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (418+ words) Willamette Week Shows of the Week: Tame Impala Gets Psychedelic at Moda Also: Devonté Hynes’ Blood Orange plays Edgefield, and Altın Gün plays Rev Hall. Even if he’d only written cult pop hits like Solange’s “Losing…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (511+ words) Willamette Week What to Do In Portland (Sept. 2-8, 2026) See architect Tom Kundig, Hear Noname and check out the burlesque fest Burlynomicon. GO: Tom Kundig: Complete Houses Tom Kundig is a visionary Seattle architect known for building sometimes moveable (actually!) houses…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (500+ words) When dating apps feel like the trenches and third spaces have gone extinct, along comes a grown and sexy new space filled with classic R&B. Throwback music videos were projected on the walls and a disco ball descended above the…...