For most of the 20th century, doctors treated cancer by hitting it with everything they had. Radical surgery, high-dose ...

For the past 50 years, civil rights and social justice leader Kathleen Saadat has advocated for women, people of color, ...

“One of the things that I love about Portland is that three friends with an idea can make something happen,” says Craig ...

Think big. Think small. Think Vera. In a political career spanning four decades, Vera Katz left an indelible mark on her ...

In the early 1980s, the Portland art scene was small and fragmented. There were galleries and artists, sure, but “there was ...

Mike and Brian McMenamin had a simple idea: Every place in Oregon would be better with a beer. Cinemas. Schools. Churches.

The origin of Powell’s Books is a tale of two cities—Portland and Chicago. In 1970, Michael Powell was a graduate student at ...

Joanna Priestley has been called the “Queen of Independent Animation,” but her creative ethos seems the opposite of that of ...

One of the first (of many) mistakes I made as a young WW staffer in the early ‘90s was calling Will Vinton the winner of ...

If modern-day Portland has an origin story, it might just be the strangling of the Mount Hood Freeway, which officially died ...

Three maxims have fueled Portland’s DIY spirit over the last 50 years: It’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

The LGBTQ+ community, especially its transgender and nonbinary members, will need support as former President Trump’s second ...