Portland Monthly (Oregon)

1 week ago | pdxmonthly.com | Matthew Trueherz

You’re reading a past edition of our weekly Things to Do column, about the concerts, art shows, comedy sets, movies, readings, and plays we’re attending each week. Read the current installment. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. Before the internet’s oceanic memory, a paper shredder could render the most sensitive documents meaningless. Though in retrospect those cuts seem less final. As the Vietnamese American artist Dinh Q.

2 weeks ago | pdxmonthly.com | Matthew Trueherz

You’re reading a past edition of our weekly Things to Do column, about the concerts, art shows, comedy sets, movies, readings, and plays we’re attending each week. Read the current installment. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. When I interviewed Oregon Ballet Theatre artistic director Dani Rowe for Portland Monthly’s spring issue, she spoke about the studio as a place of collective imagination—a place where coming together means imagining together.

2 weeks ago | pdxmonthly.com | Josh Chang

In 2018, the casual sibling restaurant to the now-closed tasting menu destination Castagna went through a transformation. Sommelier Brent Braun and then-executive chef Justin Woodward disentangled the restaurant from its lofty counterpart, giving the wine bar an identity of its own as OK Omens.

3 weeks ago | pdxmonthly.com | Matthew Trueherz

You’re reading a past edition of our weekly Things to Do column, about the concerts, art shows, comedy sets, movies, readings, and plays we’re attending each week. Read the current installment. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. Anyone who lives in the Cascadia Subduction Zone has at least a vague sense of what they might do if/when/should the Big One hit. The looming threat is probably the only reason you know what the Cascadia Subduction Zone is.

3 weeks ago | pdxmonthly.com | Alex Frane

Oregon Chefs, bartenders, and bakers are headed to Chicago once again this year. TheJames Beard Foundationreleased the list of finalists for its annual restaurant and chef awards on Wednesday, and a handful of Portland spots have advanced in national categories: Coquine for the Outstanding Restaurant category, JinJu Patisserie for Outstanding Bakery, and Scotch Lodge for Outstanding Bar.