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Ashland pollinator gala celebrates ways to benefit bees

2 weeks ago | hereisoregon.com | Janet Eastman

Bee advocate and scientist Sarah Red-Laird spends most of her days in Oregon vineyards, farms and fields, advising growers on building better pollinator habitats to enrich working landscapes. On Thursday, Red-Laird, founder of Bee Regenerative and the Bee Girl Organization, was walking between tidy rows of Tempranillo grapevines with winemaker Eric Weisinger, the second-generation owner of Weisinger Family Winery in Ashland.
Here’s what you’ll encounter at Oregon’s bucket-list bird festival

4 weeks ago | hereisoregon.com | Janet Eastman

Bucket-list birdwatchers attending the Harney County Migratory Bird Festival April 10-13 can set out before sunrise to see dozens of bald eagles fly away from a secret roost. Or people can sleep in and walk, bike or drive at their leisure to meet a scientist or wildlife spotter who “knows all the birdy spots” in southeast Oregon’s High Desert. The annual festival that celebrates shorebirds, songbirds, waterfowl and raptors through art, poetry and socializing has something for everyone.
The country’s only wine spa is right here in Portland, and it just won a major award

1 month ago | hereisoregon.com | Teresa Mahoney

Portland’s The Wine Spa is one of Time Magazine’s World’s Greatest Places of 2025. The recognition comes mere months after Kelly Lewis opened the spa on northeast Broadway. “We are the first dedicated wine spa in the United States and the first in Portland,” Lewis said. Lewis also runs a travel company that provides group travel for women. She got the idea for opening a wine spa back home in Portland after taking one of her tour groups to a vinotherapy spa in the Republic of Georgia.
Where’s the best pasta in the Portland area? Nominate your favorite for our Readers Choice Awards

Nov 25, 2024 | hereisoregon.com | Michael Russell

At The Oregonian’s Readers Choice Awards, we’re all about comfort food right now. You’ve picked the best ramen and can vote for the best pho in the Portland area until Dec. 3, 2024. Next, we’re turning to another type of noodles: pasta. When The Oregonian’s dining critic Michael Russell last ranked pasta in 2017, Renata topped the list, but it closed in 2022. Luckily, you can still enjoy a bowl of tagliatelle at Ava Gene’s, which was No. 2 on the list.
Beloved Wild Arts Festival moves to Hillsboro this year

Nov 15, 2024 | hereisoregon.com | Janet Eastman

Realist painter Wayne Jiang finds inspiration for his paintings that evoke stillness, solitude and mystery by spending time among Western azaleas and red-flowering currants growing in his Southeast Portland backyard. “I believe in using simple, quiet scenes and objects to communicate deep emotion and relevance,” said Jiang, who will be one of 62 artists selling their work at the 44th Wild Arts Festival Dec.
Japanese aesthetics bring elegant simplicity to Portland’s interior designs

Nov 9, 2024 | hereisoregon.com | Janet Eastman

Portland interior designer Midori Karasawa takes a restrained approach to furnishing a home. She was born in Tokyo, where dwellings are small and spare, and high-quality materials are accentuated by empty space. “Beauty isn’t complicated,” she said, and too many objects dilute rather than highlight it.
How one Portland company is trying to make zero-waste shopping as easy as possible

Oct 31, 2024 | hereisoregon.com | Vickie Connor

Upon walking into Mama & Hapa’s zero-waste stores, you’re greeted with fresh scents and the humming whirl of big dispensers doling out shampoos, soaps and cleaners. At the company’s four Portland-area locations, the goal is to provide a shopping experience that limits single-use plastics as much as possible. You’ll find everything from face wash and hand soap, to muscle soothing cooling gel and toilet bowl cleaner.
Stumptown Coffee Roasters adds seasonal latte flights to their menu

Oct 16, 2024 | hereisoregon.com | Teresa Mahoney

Stumptown Coffee Roasters is taking a page from Oregon wineries: tasting flights. For $12, you can try a “tasting trio” of seasonal lattes made with local ingredients, each with their own unique latte art. On the fall menu you’ll find three flavors. The pumpkin spice latte is made with Portland Syrups pumpkin spice (made with pumpkin puree) and topped with nutmeg. The salted maple latte is made with Grade A maple syrup and Jacobsen sea salt.
How Portland artist and ‘genius grant’ winner Wendy Red Star connects identity to her work

Oct 9, 2024 | hereisoregon.com | Chiara Profenna

Growing up in Montana on the Apsáalooke/Crow Reservation, Wendy Red Star was surrounded by the rich creativity and artistry that is ingrained in Indigenous culture. She just didn’t realize it. “I didn’t really consider what my community was doing as art,” Red Star said in an interview Tuesday. “In a Crow sense, art is a Western term.”In the Indigenous community where Red Star was raised, art is viewed as an integral part of the self.
Portland Art Museum expansion will restructure its galleries, unveil nearly 300 unseen pieces

Oct 9, 2024 | hereisoregon.com | Veronica Nocera

When the Portland Art Museum wraps up its $111 million campus expansion project next year, it won’t just be unveiling 95,000 square feet of upgraded space. It’ll also debut a brand new layout and nearly 300 unseen pieces by both Portland locals and international artists.