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Hollywood actress visits Mt. Hood Community College for day of filming
An English actress who has been a princess, spy, superhero and alien stopped by East Multnomah County for a whirlwind day of filming on a new project that will feature some familiar locations. Actress Vanessa Kirby, starring in “The Night Always Comes,” spent Thursday, May 16, at Mt. Hood Community College to film scenes for the upcoming film, which is being shot across Portland. At the school they filmed in the main courtyard area, one of the classrooms, and in the parking lot. ...
Blue Lake Park to reopen for Memorial Day Weekend
Blue Lake Regional Park in Fairview, OR is reopening on Memorial Day Weekend after a 9-month closure to update the park's water and sewer system, and will allow visitors to launch small, nonmotorized watercraft onto the lake.
12 of Portland's most underrated restaurants and bars
The big picture: While many of Portland's higher-end restaurants are finally getting their flowers, it's the underrated spots — coffee shops, bars, drive-thrus and food carts — we turn to time and time again. 🙏 Dig in: Thanks to the many readers who offered up their go-to faves....
Filming of ‘The Night Always Comes’ will cause Portland bridge traffic delays
Several bridges that span the Willamette River will have temporary delays over the next few weeks, according to Multnomah County. The delays are due to the filming of a movie, “The Night Always Comes,” which stars Vanessa Kirby and is adapted from a novel by Oregon author and musician Willy Vlautin.
Oregon Zoo’s record hatching year, of 13 fluffy chicks, offers hope for endangered condors
PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Thirteen fluffy California condor chicks are hopping in their nest boxes at the Oregon Zoo’s Jonsson Center for Wildlife Conservation this month — the biggest cohort yet in the zoo’s 21-year effort to save this critically endangered species from extinction. “It’s been...
Photos: Crews busy building Rose Festival floats
The Rose Festival builds all the floats for its parades, and crews have been busy working to prepare them. The CareOregon Starlight Parade is June 1, the Fred Meyer Junior Parade is June 5 and the Grand Floral Parade is June 8. Jaime Valdez, Pamplin Media Group photographer, paid a visit to document some of the action taking place at the “float barn” on Northeast 87th Avenue.
Zoo releases hundreds of endangered Oregon silverspot butterfly caterpillars on the coast
PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — In a breezy coastal meadow this week, Oregon Zoo conservationists and their partners said goodbye to 381 of the zoo’s tiniest residents. They were releasing Oregon silverspot butterfly larvae at select sites in the coastal mountain range in an effort to save this beautiful and threatened Northwest species, which has been listed under the federal Endangered Species Act since 1980.
Everything we know about chef Naomi Pomeroy’s upcoming Division Street bistro
Cornet Custard isn’t the only business opening on Southeast Division Street this year. According to several sources, James Beard Award-winning chef Naomi Pomeroy plans to open a French bistro in the former Woodsman Tavern, 4537 S.E. Division St. That’s the corner space in the same brick building as the original Stumptown cafe and the upcoming Cornet Custard, Pomeroy’s scoop shop with longtime associate Mika Paredes.
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