Spring has sprung, and playwrights spent the winter ensuring that this year’s crop of plays for the Fertile Ground Festival ...

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Let's celebrate, because... IT'S BACK! The biggest night of Portland comedy is returning to Revolution Hall TONIGHT, Friday, March 27! You like laughing your guts out, right? Then you won't want to ...

Thousands of students at Portland Community College are in limbo, with winter classes unfinished and spring classes on hold.

If music truly is a salve for the weary heart, then I hope we’ve all been slathering it on nice and thick the past couple ...

While we plebes are expected to be generous that the wealthy elite generously bestow their contributions upon us, sometimes I would like to attend a cultural event or see some art in this town without ...

I know it was just a first date. I know we're in times of change. But from the moment I clocked you dripped out in a color-matched outfit, in platform shoes to lift that shortstack — the people call ...

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Imagine walking to your neighborhood bagel shop or taking a quick ride on the 75 for a hot bagel fresh out of the oven.

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Sarah Maywalt remembers finding herself mesmerized while watching a Canadian broadcast channel in the late 1990s. On the TV: ...