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The Portland skyline and Mount Hood are bathed in the orange glow of sunset. Map pin icons with green hearts are sprinkled across different locations in the photo.

Culture

Our readers’ local love stories

Help us put our city on the map by submitting your love stories.

February 14, 2024

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Jessalin Heins-Nagamoto

About 20 people dressed in colorful clothes and wearing facepaint pose on a parade float.

Events

Calling all class clowns: Portland Rose Festival seeks new aspiring performers

People 13 and older can apply to join the Rose Festival Clowns and add joy to the annual festivities which run for three weeks starting Memorial Day Weekend.

February 12, 2024

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Cambrie Juarez

Travel and Outdoors

Q+A: Tapping the sweet secrets of Oregon’s native maple trees

Eliza Nelson, founder and director of the Oregon Maple Project, sheds light on the practice of bigleaf maple “sugaring.”

February 12, 2024

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Cambrie Juarez

A kitchen stage is set up in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square for Feast, a food festival that started in 2012. An audience watches to people behind the counter cooking something.

Events

Asked: Which canceled event or festival would you bring back to Portland?

We’re feeling sentimental about the occasions that brought us together, but somehow ceased to exist.

February 9, 2024

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Ben McBee

A person wearing several rings and cozy clothes knits using a yellow ochre yarn while sitting on a futon. There are string lights draped around them.

Culture

Answered: Your favorite Portland hobbies

It appears PDXtoday readers are a creative bunch; this is what they do to relax and/or express themselves.

February 9, 2024

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Ben McBee

a girl sings on a stage in front of a microphone

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Food

Try our 6 picks for Portland Dumpling Week

Hurry, the 50+ participating restaurants will only offer their dumpling specials for a limited time.

February 8, 2024

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Cambrie Juarez

A sign at a roundabout in Ridgefield, WA, that reads "Welcome to Ridgefield, birthplace of U-Haul."

Business

How U-Haul’s journey started in Ridgefield, WA

The company for do-it-yourself movers started in 1945 with a humble fleet of trailers.

February 8, 2024

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Cambrie Juarez

An aerial drone shot shows the Oregon Convention Center in the foreground as the sun sinks low over Portland's West Hills.

City

Decode the code: Flying a drone for recreational use

There are several steps to take in order to become a responsible hobbyist pilot.

February 7, 2024

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Ben McBee

Live Wire Radio hosts Luke Burbank (right) and Elena Passarello (center) interview Ari Shapiro on stage in front of a bright red curtain. There are microphones in front of them, as well as a table laden with a water bottle, laptop, and a stack of books. Behind them, musicians sit in the dark.

Events

Play the birthday song: Live Wire Radio is turning 20

The long-running variety show was started in 2004 by two Portlanders with no radio experience; now it’s broadcast weekly on OPB.

February 7, 2024

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Ben McBee