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Hummus Topped With Varenikis And Fried Onions

April 12, 2022<April 12, 2022

“Breaking Bread” in Haifa’s A-Sham Arab Food Festival
Chef Nof Atamna-Ismaeel’s A-Sham Arab Food Festival aims to foster cultural understanding in Israel

by Corry Hinckley

At the start of “Breaking Bread,” an award winning film making rounds at international film festivals, Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel describes her intersectional identities: “I…

January 24, 2022<January 24, 2022

The 2021 Portland Book Festival
Highlight from This Year's Hybrid Book Festival

by Jennifer Williams

The Portland Book Festival, presented by Literary Arts, is a coveted annual celebration of great literature, of storytelling, and of those who bring it…

January 23, 2022<January 23, 2022

PSU Student Feature: Nikki James
Artistic Innovation in Our Midst

by Cicely Blackwell

Nikki James is a student at Portland State University and an incredible artist. Their passions range from illustration to poetry to painting. They are…

A laptop computer reading "VRChat" levitates above a grid.

January 23, 2022<January 23, 2022

Game Night at the Dysfunctional Family
A Writer's Dive into the VRChat Phenomenon

by Zion Victoriano

A dizzying array of neon blue lights assault my eyes as club music batters my eardrums. Luckily, I can at least turn down the…

January 4, 2020<January 4, 2020

Pop-Up Readings

by Shane Johnson

The most casual moments on the Portland Book Festival agenda were also perhaps its most intimate. Scattered throughout the Portland Art Museum and throughout…

December 22, 2019<December 30, 2019

Highlights from the Portland Book Festival

by Rachel Owen

“Books are incredible because they can take us to places we’ve never been and they can introduce us to characters that we’ve never seen,”…

December 22, 2019<December 30, 2019

Rob Zombie Revisits the Firefly Family
3 From Hell finds a fresh story to tell in a sixteen-year-old saga

by Maggie Post

There are many things that irritate me about the world of films and television, but arguably nothing is more annoying than when a series…

December 22, 2019<December 30, 2019

OMSI Exhibit: Exquisite Creatures

by Jade Dowdy

Exquisite Creatures is a fashionable, teaching moment that is possibly controversial. Butterflies, macaws and beetles are some of nature’s jewels put on display at…

December 22, 2019<February 26, 2020

“Art for All” Museum’s Successful Opening

by Jake Johnson

The opening ceremony for the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) featured a real who’s who crowd of not only Portland’s art institutional world,…

December 22, 2019<December 22, 2019

The Continuous Impact of Young-Adult Fiction on Teenagers

by Maggie Post

I’ve always been a strong believer in the idea that media can both change and save a person’s life. When I was 15 and…