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After a Smashing First Year, Tea Fest PDX Returns July 21

After a Smashing First Year, Tea Fest PDX Returns July 21

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — Portland has long been a coffee mecca, but the city's burgeoning demand for tea and kombucha made last summer's inaugural Tea Fest PDX a smashing success: nearly 2,400 visitors sampled tea from across the globe. Last year's scene included Oregon Koto-Kai players, tai chi and yoga demos, Victorian-era cosplay, and kimono-clad Japanese tourists.
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What's the Hold-Up with Oregon's New Office of Outdoor Recreation?

What's the Hold-Up with Oregon's New Office of Outdoor Recreation?

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — In 2013, Utah started the trend. Colorado, Montana, North Carolina, and Washington followed. Last August, Oregon jumped onboard, as Governor Kate Brown signed HB 3350 to create Oregon's first-ever Office of Outdoor Recreation . But it's been a slow start for the novel agency.
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What's the Hold-Up with Oregon's New Office of Outdoor Recreation?

What's the Hold-Up with Oregon's New Office of Outdoor Recreation?

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — In 2013, Utah started the trend. Colorado, Montana, North Carolina, and Washington followed. Last August, Oregon jumped onboard, as Governor Kate Brown signed HB 3350 to create Oregon's first-ever Office of Outdoor Recreation . But it's been a slow start for the novel agency.
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The Oregon Coast's Next Trail Is All about Public Art

The Oregon Coast's Next Trail Is All about Public Art

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — Lately, the Oregon Coast is all about trail-blazing. In March, the 86-mile Salmonberry Trail concept took a big step forward. (If realized, the multi-use path will connect Banks to the Pacific Ocean.) In April, we announced the kickoff of Tillamook County's North Coast Food Trail, a "DIY road map to some 60 visitor-ready farmers, fishers, foragers, and foodie destinations between Cannon Beach and Lincoln City."
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How the Portland Rose Festival Found Its New Bloom

How the Portland Rose Festival Found Its New Bloom

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — Dress Blues-a lavender floribunda with a magenta heart-is the official rose of this year's Portland Rose Festival, starting this month. Since the event's centennial in 2007, Rose Fest has selected and named a new hybrid of its flagship flower every year. But the road to rose is a thorny one.
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How Should We Commemorate Portland's Fatal MAX Attack?

How Should We Commemorate Portland's Fatal MAX Attack?

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — Does street art have the power to help a community grieve and heal? On May 26, 2017, a knife-wielding white nationalist killed two men and critically injured another when they came to the defense of two young women of color, one wearing a hijab, on a MAX train at Northeast Portland's Hollywood Transit Center.
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How Should We Commemorate Portland's Fatal MAX Attack?

How Should We Commemorate Portland's Fatal MAX Attack?

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — Does street art have the power to help a community grieve and heal? On May 26, 2017, a knife-wielding white nationalist killed two men and critically injured another when they came to the defense of two young women of color, one wearing a hijab, on a MAX train at Northeast Portland's Hollywood Transit Center.
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Eat Tibetan Momos, Somali Sambusas, and Cuban Pastries to Support Refugee Students

Eat Tibetan Momos, Somali Sambusas, and Cuban Pastries to Support Refugee Students

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — Next week brings Portlanders an opportunity to help student refugees and devour a world of delicious dishes, as the nation-spanning nonprofit Refugee Center Online hosts its inaugural PDX Global Eats dinner on Thursday, April 26. The event, held at the Lagunitas Community Room, features small plates from chefs originally from some of the most affected regions-Iraq to Somalia-plus talks from refugees resettled in Portland.
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Your 2018 Guide to 10 Portland-Area Flowers

Your 2018 Guide to 10 Portland-Area Flowers

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — At last-it's flower time, Portland. Look around: cherry blossoms, daffodils, and magnolias have already burst forth in home gardens, on the waterfront, along trails. Last year, a seemingly never-ending winter delayed spring's showiest feature. This year, Portland flowers are back on track-if not even a skosh early, despite that mid-to-late March freeze.
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Can Live Storytelling Be an Antidote to Xenophobia?

Can Live Storytelling Be an Antidote to Xenophobia?

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — Last November, Aristanto Bayu Aji stepped nervously onto the stage, wrung his hands, and averted his eyes from the nearly 300 spectators. His girlfriend had taken him to the Moth, Back Fence PDX, and several other local live storytelling events. Now, at Portland Story Theater, he began: "Life is like a movie.
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Two Oregon Choirs Come Together for One Night of Hope

Two Oregon Choirs Come Together for One Night of Hope

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — In November 2015, Cal State Long Beach's choir performed during the memorial vigil for one of the school's own students, Nohemi Gonzalez, who was killed in that year's Paris terrorist attacks. The next day, the choir was supposed to begin rehearsing holiday music.
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'Hair Nah' Creator Momo Pixel Wants Designers to Use More Color

'Hair Nah' Creator Momo Pixel Wants Designers to Use More Color

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — Momo Pixel-an art director at ad agency Wieden & Kennedy and the creator of , a viral-hit 8-bit online game about a traveler named Aeva who slaps away hands reaching to touch her hair-plans a Design Week keynote encouraging designers to think more inclusively and colorfully. Because that's exactly what happens.
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A Year after a Controversial Art Gallery Coup, Disjecta Focuses on the Positive

A Year after a Controversial Art Gallery Coup, Disjecta Focuses on the Positive

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — A year ago, the beloved North Portland art organization Disjecta fell into public disarray amid a bitter public feud between founder Bryan Suereth and the nonprofit's board. Suereth blamed the board for laggard fundraising; the board accused Suereth of pursuing personal gain and insisted Disjecta needed "a different kind of leader."
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Move Over, Runners: Reshod's Shoes Are Designed for Walkers

Move Over, Runners: Reshod's Shoes Are Designed for Walkers

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — Last October, after 40 other shoe companies-including previous employers Columbia Sportswear and Nike-passed on race walker and trainer Carmen Jackinsky's designs, she brought her performance walking shoe to market herself, under the brand Reshod. "They just didn't see the value of it," says Jackinsky, 54, a former fitness coach at Nike.
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A Portlander Writes Instagram Flash Fiction with a Real Estate Twist

A Portlander Writes Instagram Flash Fiction with a Real Estate Twist

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — Sharlyn Anderson finds inspiration in light striking a house just right, or some distinctive feature-maybe a chimney, or a gargoyle. She stops, takes a picture, and imagines the lives and loves contained within Oregon's bungalows and colonials. In January, the 27-year-old began posting photos on Instagram of homes she's passed.
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Two Portlanders Launch an App for Plus Size People (and Their Friends)

Two Portlanders Launch an App for Plus Size People (and Their Friends)

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — Many public spaces are not designed with plus size people in mind, as anyone who has broken a flimsy restaurant chair or been forced to purchase two airline seats can attest. In her memoir Hunger, literary superstar Roxane Gay wrote, " The bigger we are, the smaller our worlds become."
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TEDxPortland Will Feature Bionic Limbs, Psychedelic Beards, and Radical Audience Participation

TEDxPortland Will Feature Bionic Limbs, Psychedelic Beards, and Radical Audience Participation

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — Can one event "bridge" the divide between today's social and political rifts, at least locally? TEDx Portland cofounder, curator, and host David Rae hopes to do just that. "Bridges felt like the perfect theme for this year because it's just completely on trend with where we are: we're fractured," Rae says.
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A New Netflix Documentary Explores the Insane Rajneesh Crisis That Shook '80s Oregon

A New Netflix Documentary Explores the Insane Rajneesh Crisis That Shook '80s Oregon

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — Today, Netflix drops its latest look at deeply odd Oregoniana: Wild Wild Country , a six-part documentary crime series on the Rajneesh commune's ill-fated attempt to build utopia in a tiny ranch town. In 1981, religious guru Bhagwan Rajneesh and 2,000 orange-clad disciples purchased a 64,000-acre ranch in Wasco County, Oregon.
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Musician Laura Veirs Switches Gears for New Kids' Book on Elizabeth Cotten

Musician Laura Veirs Switches Gears for New Kids' Book on Elizabeth Cotten

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — In 1985, Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten won a Grammy, but, as an African American folk singer born and raised in the segregated South in the early 1900s, her path to fame was anything but straightforward. A lefty, she taught herself to play on her brother's guitar upside down and backwards, a style now known as "Cotten picking."
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What Happens When Machines Make Mistakes?

What Happens When Machines Make Mistakes?

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — A cyborg with a Chroma key green head made from a cardboard box purchases an IKEA particle board cabinet, smashes it with a sledgehammer, and scatters the dust in the wilderness-this is the premise of Harry Dodge's 2016 film Big Bang (Song of the Cosmic Hobo), one of many exploratory commentaries by the American sculptor, performer, video artist, and 2017 Guggenheim fellow.
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An Ex-Border Patrol Agent on the Futility of Building a Wall

An Ex-Border Patrol Agent on the Futility of Building a Wall

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — Francisco Cantú joined the US-Mexico border patrol to find answers. The grandson of a Mexican-American immigrant, he had studied immigration in college and wanted to understand the border better. But his experience led to more questions, and writing became a way to make sense of the nightmare-inducing horrors he witnessed from 2008-2012 while working in the field and in an intelligence center.
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Literary Arts Announces 2018 Oregon Book Awards Finalists

Literary Arts Announces 2018 Oregon Book Awards Finalists

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — Literary Arts has announced the finalists for this year's 30th annual Oregon Book Awards, with 37 writers from across the state shortlisted in seven different categories. Subjects reflect 2017's weighty atmosphere, ranging from war to food sustainability, and predatory animals to dystopian futures. The fiction competition is fierce this year between acclaimed writers with major publishers.
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Portland's Brand-New Design Program for Busy People

Portland's Brand-New Design Program for Busy People

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — The Pacific Northwest College of Art had a problem: How could they offer a comprehensive curriculum to potential students too busy with career and family to invest fully in the MFA in Collaborative Design? Solving quandaries is what the school teaches, so faculty hit the drawing board and fashioned the MA in Design Systems, which begins this fall.
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3 New Ways for Portlanders to Get Outdoors in 2018

3 New Ways for Portlanders to Get Outdoors in 2018

Portland Monthly (Oregon) — Change is coming to Portland, whether you want it or not-from massive Waterfront developments to, potentially, the West's tallest skyscraper . But let's agree: not all the grand plans currently filed with City Hall are scary. Some sound kinda ... sweet. Especially those intended to get more Portlanders outdoors, into public spaces and celebrating our urban nature.
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