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Bethany, OR · Lifestyle

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Walking Into This Oregon Italian Market Feels Like A Trip To Rome Without The Plane Ticket

A full Italian deli counter greets you at the door, and it sits inside a strip mall. That alone made me grin. Shelves of olive oils, herbs, pasta salads, gelato, and sweets wait before you even reach a table. Keep going and the place opens into a trattoria with an...

Lake Oswego, OR · 1d

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This Massive Oregon Video Store Has 100,000 Titles And Makes Netflix Look Tiny

There’s a video store in Portland, Oregon that has more movies than most people will watch in ten lifetimes, and it’s still open for business. Movie Madness Video exists in a world that was supposed to have moved on without it, and somehow, gloriously, it did not get the memo.

Portland, OR · 4d

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This Oregon Museum Holds Objects That Tell The State’s Story In Unexpected Ways

A single copper coin decided the name of a major American city. Two founders flipped it, and the winner picked the name of his hometown back East. That coin still exists, and you can see it in person. It sits in a museum that also lets you sniff salmon, hazelnuts, and wheat. Yes, history here comes with a scent track.

Portland, OR · 1d

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This Oregon Garden Lets You Wander Through Plants From Every Continent Without Paying a Dime

You turn onto a tiny side street and feel sure you are about to roll into someone’s driveway. Then a gate opens to a hush you did not expect, and your curiosity wakes right up. Oregon hides a lot of quiet surprises, and this one asks for nothing but...

Portland, OR · 2d

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Small Bites: Old Pal Will Close, Oysters, Bar Carlo, and More

Old Pal will close. They’ve decided to close the restaurant and put more energy into their catering side, Field Day Feasts & Gatherings. Their final time of service will be New Year’s Eve. “Old Pal has been so much more than a restaurant to us. It’s been a...

Portland, OR · 2d

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‘Wildwood’ movie turns real life Portland into stop-motion wonderland

LAIKA Animation Studios’ latest stop-motion film “Wildwood” is widely considered a love letter to the city of Portland and turns its real-life streets and woods into a magical, mysterious world through a combination of cutting-edge technology and old-school stop-motion animation. Known for classic animated films like “Coraline,”...

Portland, OR · 1d

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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Portland This Weekend: Nov 6–8, 2026

Wondering what there is to do this weekend? Look no further, because we've rounded up the best budget-friendly options around town, from Frybread Fest to World Vegan Month and from the Portland Holiday Market to the Creative Storefronts art installation. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week.

Portland, OR · 2d

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This Oregon Bookstore Fills An Entire City Block With Rooms Of New And Used Books And Is A Cozy Pick For 2027

Most bookstores get by with a few aisles. This Oregon one needs nine color-coded rooms and more than 3,500 subsections, so grabbing a map isn’t optional. It takes up an entire city block. The collection tops one million new, used, and rare books between the store and its online inventory, which is a lot of happily-ever-afters under one roof.

Portland, OR · 5h

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Berries, blood and mud: Oregon’s most delicious invasive weed

Picking berries is a quintessential summer tradition for many Pacific Northwesterners. The region has many farms, but fruit can easily be found in everyday corners. For about the past 140 years, the Himalayan Blackberry has taken over Oregon’s alleyways, waterfronts, forests and backyards. This thorny vine is actually a cousin of the rose, the plant behind Portland’s most famous nickname, but instead of beautiful flowers, the vines produce juicy fruit.

Oregon · 2d

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1st & Nourish Market Planning Old Town Grocery Store

1st & Nourish Market, a new 4,000-square-foot neighborhood grocery store, is tentatively scheduled to open in Old Town Portland in December. The market will fill most of the ground floor of the Nourish Building at 34 NW 1st Ave., and it will be led by Jacobsen Valentine, executive director of the nonprofit Feed the Mass.

Portland, OR · 2d

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Oregon Zoo’s ZooLights Returns With Light Tunnels and a Lantern Train

Plan Oregon Zoo ZooLights 2026–2027 with dates, ticket prices, special nights, the $6 lantern train, transit, parking, and accessibility advice.

Portland, OR · 2d

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Newberry Award-winning author Renée Watson shares new novel "Everything New Again"

In a small town where the funeral home sits at the center of daily life, Portland native Renée Watson’s newest book asks big questions about love, loss and what it really means to start over. The Newbery Award-winning author joined us to talk about her new young adult novel, "Everything New Again," set in a small town in eastern Oregon and already earning four starred reviews!

Portland, OR · 2d

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K103 flips to all-Christmas music again, marking 26th straight year as holiday station

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — It’s that time of year again!. For the 26th consecutive year, Portland radio station K103 became “Portland’s Christmas station” flipping formats to non-stop Christmas music. The station shifted into “Christmas mode” at 9:30 a.m. playing “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of...

Portland, OR · 2d

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A Wine Bar for Every Mood In and Around Portland

The Portland area has a lot of wine bars these days — so many, in fact, that it can be a challenge to pick amongst the bunch. And with so many great wine lists to choose from, why not just go by pure vibes? Whether the mood calls for a day trip to the Columbia River Gorge or just a quick trip to Sullivan's Gulch for good wine and focaccia, this list has a spot for every type of drinker — pure pleasure with no wine knowledge required (unless, of course, that's your thing).

Portland, OR · 2d

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An Oregon Parking Lot Was Transformed Into a Forest-Inspired Library

At East County Library in Gresham, Oregon, timber columns rise through gaps in the acoustic ceiling, keeping the structure visually separate from the surfaces around it. Holst Architecture designed this detail to suggest tree trunks reaching toward a canopy. The forest reference is built into the architecture, rather than applied afterward as a decorative theme.

Gresham, OR · 1d

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FlixChatter Review: WILDWOOD (2026)—LAIKA’s handcrafted masterpiece sets the new gold standard for stop-motion animation

I’ve been a fan of Laika Studios’ stop-motion animated films since I saw Kubo and the Two Strings ten years ago. Travis Knight, the lead animator and CEO of Laika, has really pushed the envelope of what is possible in animation. My husband and I actually rewatched it within a week after watching it on a press screener. The visuals are so spectacular we wanted to experience it on the big screen with Dolby Atmos. I’m glad we did! My jaw was on the floor the entire time, and I constantly went, ‘How did they do THAT?!’

Portland, OR · 2d

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Foodie Friday: Get a taste of culture, tradition at Frybread Fest

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Dive into ages-old indigenous traditions with the return of Frybread Fest on Saturday, Nov. 7. The Downtown Portland event at Director Park goes so much deeper than its scrumptious namesake. Becca Kirik, executive director with Miss Indian Northwest, and Stephanie Lynn Smith, owner of La Indias Native Cuisine, joined us on […]

Portland, OR · 1d