En Route: Alternative Travel in Portland
Portlanders tend to move about the city the same way they do everything— alternatively.
Art+Culture
Winter Festivals in Oregon
Mark your calendars.
Around Oregon | December 2015
Our picks for the best things to do around the state this month.
Around Oregon | November 2015
Our picks for the best things to do around the state each month.
The Storied Life of Alvin Josephy
By the time Alvin M. Josephy first visited Joseph, Oregon in 1955, middle-aged Josephy had dropped out of Harvard, worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood, at the age of 22 interviewed Soviet Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky and Mexico’s president Lazaro Cárdenas del Rio, worked for the New York Herald Tribune, fought in the South Pacific during WWII, recorded the landing at Guam, landed a job at TIME magazine and had four kids from two marriages.
Of Ink and Accidents
Portland artist Ursula Barton has made a career built on spilled ink.
From Where I Stand: Government Camp
Hans Whipper’s whole life revolves around Government Camp and Mt. Hood.
Prominence of Podcasts
Podcasts are having a moment. The audio medium has been around since Apple introduced the iPod in 2001, but like most new forms of media, it was relegated to a niche audience at first. In 2013, iTunes reached one billion podcast subscribers, and has grown 25 percent annually since then. In the visual information era, what is it about podcasts that attracts almost forty-million people? A large part of the allure lies in the convenience of carrying a small radio with you everywhere you go—your smartphone. An Edison Research study, published in May, found 64 percent of podcast consumers listen to podcasts on their smartphones. Mobile apps such as the iTunes podcast app, Stitcher, Pocket Cast and Overcast provide free, unlimited access to myriad podcasts crafted by musicians, scientists, comedians, historians, journalists, economists, gamers, techies, foodies, parents and more. photo illustration by Brendan Loscar The podcast that launched the medium into the mainstream was the 2014 premier of Serial, in which journalist Sarah Koenig re-examined the 1999 murder case of Hae…
Spiritually Sound
Singer Liz Vice will win you over in one of two ways.
