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Help the Bird Alliance of Oregon save baby animals

You’re more likely to find baby animals in need this summer, so be informed about how your intervention can help (or harm) local wildlife in need.

April 10, 2024

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Dayten Rose

An aerial view of a table set with plates containing breakfast items and tea.

Play

Brunch or bust: Find the best meal of the week at these eateries

Check out these brunch restaurants, cafes, food carts, and diners in Portland serving a variety of egg dishes, mimosas, bloody marys, and more.

April 9, 2024

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Cambrie Juarez

Hillsboro, Oregon's Goodwill express donation center at Bronson Creek. The small yellow building has a blue roof and a drive-thru area where people can hand over donations.

City

Where to donate clothes in Portland

Whether your closet needs a spring cleaning or you’re simply running out of room, these organizations can use your unwanted garb for good.

April 9, 2024

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Ben McBee

A site rendering shows plans to imrpove Berrydale Park in Portland's Montavilla neighborhood. The baseball fields will remain in the bottom left corner, with a new skate park and playgrounds taking up the right side where trees are.

City

Improvements are inbound for Berrydale Park

With additional funding, the project can move forward with construction slated to start later in 2024.

April 9, 2024

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Ben McBee

A cream colored building with teal trim at an amusement park on a sunny day.

Events

Take a dance lesson with a pro at Let’s Dance Weekend

The three-day event, held partly at Oaks Park Dance Pavilion in Portland, will be led by dance instructor Michael Kielbasa.

April 8, 2024

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Cambrie Juarez

Food

Embark on an appetizing adventure during Portland Food Cart Week

The event celebrates and supports the small eateries that contribute to Portland’s reputation as a culinary paradise.

April 8, 2024

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Cambrie Juarez

Portland mixed media artist Hannah Rivera poses at a market with her pieces. Each incorporates ornate antique bubble glass frames with colorful dried flowers and pinned butterflies and moths.

Arts

Artist spotlight: Rivera’s Rarities

Local mixed-media artist Hannah Rivera uses sustainably-sourced insects, dried flowers, thrifted picture frames and fabric, plus her own sketches and paintings to create one-of-a-kind vintage pieces.

April 5, 2024

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Ben McBee

The Boom Bike is a bike with a built in platform, where two people can sit and perform music while another pedals.

Events

Portland Sunday Parkways brings the music with Boom Bike PDX

The mobile soundstage will bring live music performances to the summertime events.

April 5, 2024

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Ben McBee

A Queen Anne style mansion painted dark blue with white trim, a conical current topped by a porch, and bay windows.

City

Portland architecture: Queen Anne rules the Victorian style

Remnants of this late 19th-century architectural movement still stand in neighborhoods across Portland.

April 4, 2024

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Cambrie Juarez

A small rodent with short round ears sits among rocky terrain holding a daisy in its mouth as the sun lights it from behind.

Travel and Outdoors

Oregon Zoo’s pika watch is back on

Volunteers interested in mapping American pika populations in the Columbia River Gorge are invited to free training sessions May 9-11.

April 4, 2024

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Ben McBee