Vogue

Even before I was walloped by 2020, for years I’d been feeling what I can only describe as spiritually itchy. I tried therapy, journaling, and exercise, but I yearned for something deeper to ground me after challenges in my personal life collided with the collective problems so many Americans have faced of late. I became convinced this healing could only come from turning inward for greater self-exploration. But how to get started?

Travel Portland

There is an energy that radiates from Portland jewelry designer Caroline Blechert’s art. It’s an ancestral force rooted in the movements of nomadic people; the spirits of whales, porcupine and caribou; and the unyielding resilience of the Inuit people native to Canada’s arctic Northwest Territory. It’s also the tie that binds Blechert to the other artists she uplifts through Creations for Continuity, a home for her own designs and a collective featuring work and collaborations with other Indigenous makers.

Travel Portland

Since 2013, long-time residents of Northeast Portland have witnessed a dramatic revitalization of the Northeast 42nd Avenue corridor, bringing with it new and culturally diverse businesses and restaurants.

Today, this eclectic strip — surrounded by a patchwork of residential enclaves and small farms — is one of the most charming areas of Northeast Portland for eating, dancing, recreation and immersing yourself in the local community.

Travel Portland

South Portland is a slim strip of land on the west side of the Willamette River, located south of downtown Portland. Bound by Interstate 5 and the Marquam Bridge to the north and the Sellwood Bridge to the south, South Portland encompasses the South Waterfront and Johns Landing neighborhoods.

Travel Portland

Fun with four-legged equine friends is possible in scenic settings just outside of Portland city limits. From lessons to trail rides, check out these local options for horseback riding near Portland. Pro tips: Remember to keep your head up, shoulders back and boot heels down; if you fall, get back up and in the saddle.

Portland Monthly

The pain of the past sounds fresh when Philly-raised navy veteran Malcolm Hoover recalls the rage that came over him as he picked cotton under the sweltering Mississippi sun during a field trip to a plantation in the summer of 1987.

Portland Monthly

White People,
Consider your performative solidarity officially on notice:

Doing the least, like sending a guilty “just checking in” text or a sympathy-saturated “thinking of you” email to your Black friend, compelling them to choose to respond to your fleeting request for coddling, is insufficient. Your #BlackOutTuesday post ain’t cuttin’ it. Don’t expect a pat on the back for the nine-minute video of you pressed against the scorching pavement chanting “Black Lives Matter.”

Portland Monthly

In 2020, diversity is more than a buzzword. It’s big business.

Every year US employers spend billions on equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts, lumped under the spreadsheet-friendly acronym EDI, according to Pamela Newkirk, a professor of journalism at New York University and author of Diversity, Inc.; The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business. A more diverse workplace brings valuable new perspectives and, research shows, ultimately helps a company’s bottom line.

Travel Oregon

Taking time out to take care of yourself takes, well, time. And if, like me, you enter the new year lamenting with 20/20 hindsight the quality time you should have taken to prioritize your self-care, seize the moment: Head toward the center of Oregon for an abundance of opportunities to center yourself.

Willamette Week

“Malin is a natural leader and has already had substantial impact in the lives of the multiple communities she serves," says Tony DeFalco, Verde's executive director.

Willamette Week

“Brody is a networker, a relationship-builder, and a natural mentor," Laura Ford, Ecotrust's director of special projects says.

Willamette Week

“Nawwal brings strong leadership and an unparalleled dedication to making a difference in the lives of underserved students," Katy Roy-Johnson, Open School East's registrar says.

Willamette Week

"Kieran brings passion, empathy and an unrivaled commitment to their work and community," says Basic Rights Oregon's development director, Margot Martin.

Portland Monthly

Humble brag to the left: Shari Dunn calls herself an “agent of change,” but that’s an understatement for the attorney, former news anchor, and now executive director of the Oregon affiliate of international nonprofit Dress for Success.

Portland Monthly

Before 2016, Sankar Raman, a Portlander and immigrant from India, wasn’t so big on politics. Then came the election of no. 45. Alarmed by the divisive “us vs. them” rhetoric espoused by the president and his supporters, and moved by the stories of fellow immigrants experiencing the real-life consequences of xenophobic policies and racially motivated attacks, Raman felt compelled to act: the Immigrant Story was born.

Portland Monthly

River cleanup, fishing lessons, a water ceremony, storytelling, and music: Welcome to the inaugural Illamette Festival.

This Saturday (August 24), it’s going down at Illamette: a brand new Hip Hop River Festival and “edutainment” event celebrating the Willamette River and raising awareness of the federal government’s billion-dollar restoration efforts around it.

Willamette Week

Whatever guests want to do from there is entirely up to them, whether it’s a two-step, twerking or even letting out a primal scream.

Willamette Week

The city of Portland never fails to remind us what not to put in curbside recycling bins—wine corks, batteries, plastic foam peanuts, aerosol cans. But how to responsibly get rid of those hard-to-recycle items isn’t always so clear.

If you live in Southwest Portland, though, independent recycler James Harris has your back.

Willamette Week

America has a complex relationship with cannabis. That much is abundantly clear as a growing number of states legalize recreational use of the plant even though that conflicts with federal law. But as the movement to end prohibition continues to strengthen, it's the perfect time to take a critical look at pot's trajectory from nefarious "jive," as it was known in the early 20th century, to the normalized product of today that is displayed in sleek boutiques no differently than designer tea or coffee.

Willamette Week

Black people are not monolithic. Black music is not monolithic. And neither is Black Portland.

Case in point? The Numberz, the Rose City's only station airing "Black music by Black people from Black Portland." Streaming online and terrestrially on 96.7 FM, the Numberz brings the sounds of Portland's Black community to the radio.

Willamette Week

Nestled on a fertile plateau in the shadow of Mount Hood, right along its namesake river, Bull Run Craft Cannabis grows award-winning cannabis flower with minimal environmental impact.

Willamette Week

High Noon has high standards. Its cultivation practices pay particular attention to organic and veganic growing methods, and the payoff is an assortment of dense, high-quality and tasty bud options, packed with clean flavor and devoid of harsh chemicals. An indoor grow built on a pastoral vineyard and apple orchard in the Willamette Valley, High Noon has a "free vibe" that's allowed the team license to test exotic and heirloom flavors, according to founder Tyson Lewis.

Willamette Week

You’ll also find its handiwork in a growing number of extract, edible and topical manufacturers.

Willamette Week

As larger companies buy out more and more small canna-businesses, it’s no minor task to maintain majority ownership of a self-funded operation.

Willamette Week

They call it Voyager 1.

Willamette Week

She’s everything you want. She’s everything you need.

Willamette Week

Portland has several nominees up for 2019 James Beard Awards, but don't get too excited, though—once again, the city was snubbed in national categories, leaving some of our most celebrated chefs to duke it out in the regional awards.

Willamette Week

Portland's cannabis industry is getting more diverse, but there's still a lot of work to be done. So it makes sense that we'd play host to an event bringing together a lineup of activists, lawyers, musicians, vendors and entrepreneurs, all with a vested interests in seeing greater representation and inclusion in the legal cannabis industry.

Willamette Week

South Portland, stand up!

Last February, the Portland City Council voted to designate the slender swath of land between the Ross Island and Sellwood bridges as the city's sixth official "quadrant."

Willamette Week

Securing the funds from Prosper Portland last summer and awarding the first of many more grants to come this winter was a full-circle moment for NuLeaf.

Willamette Week

You probably wouldn't expect to find chow mein on the menu at Portland's only Guyanese food cart. But then, given the rarity of the cuisine at Bake on the Run, just about everything is unexpected.

Mercatus

Ro Tam has been a fixture in the Portland coffee scene for the last five years, grinding her dream into reality from behind the counter of her snug café in Sellwood. Now, with the expansion of her business into North Portland’s Boise neighborhood, coffee and cocktails are officially an Either/Or affair.

Portland Monthly

An old-school radio mainstay. A record label that gets DIY bands national buzz. An all-local streaming service. Get to know a few vital forces of our sonic scene.

Medium

In April, Spotify USA put out the call for up and coming women podcasters of color to participate in its first ever podcasting bootcamp for women of color. The global streaming service received an unprecedented number of submissions–over eighteen thousand applications for just ten spots.

Medium

I’m a well-educated Black millennial, and for the last six months my side-hustle was selling weed while working my way through graduate school.

To be clear, I worked in the legal cannabis industry. I never envisioned myself on starting down this professional path. I also never expected to live in Portland, Oregon after years living in the Washington, DC area. Yet here I am, a trailblazer in my own right.

Farma

In the February issue of Portland Monthly, the magazine’s first-ever Cannabis issue, we delighted were honored as one of Portland’s “9 Finest Cannabis Dispensaries.” Farma is indeed a special place in the Rose City, but it wouldn’t exist without our equally exceptional customers, vendors (a few of which were also highlighted in PoMo), and our incredibly hardworking and dedicated budtenders!

Farma

Consider the enticing aroma of blended spices in an Indian curry, the life-giving taste of a warming cup of cinnamon-spiced tea, or a satisfying hot shower with a lavender-scented body scrub. Do these things calm your mind and vanquish pain and tension from your muscles and joints? If so, shout out to one of Farma’s favorite terpenes, linalool!

Medium

This Valentine’s Day, if you’re seeking advice about using cannabis in the bedroom, don’t call Dan Savage or David Schmader with your questions. At least, not until they apologize for the egregiously bad advice they gave two women on a fairly recent episode of Savage’s podcast, the “Weed Episode.”

Portland Monthly

Laura Veirs is a musician and a mom, identities that don’t often maintain a clean separation. The local singer-songwriter, who releases her 10th solo album in April, pushes back at the notion that she has been able to find “balance” between her career and motherhood, describing it as “more like juggling.”

Farma

Oregon wouldn’t be Oregon without our state tree, the Douglas Fir. And a Doug Fir wouldn’t be a Doug Fir without pinene. From evergreen trees to candles and familiar herbs, pinene is a common terpene found as much in our everyday lives as it tends to be in many of our favorite cannabis chemovars (Jack Herer, Blue Dream, OG Kush, etc).

Sprudge

Oregon is home to an array of hyperlocal craft movements, including an internationally known coffee industry. But as of late 2015, recreational cannabis is legal here—one of just a few states with legal pot sales, alongside Colorado, Washington, and as of 2018, the state of California. This has (perhaps unsurprisingly) led to a boom for cannabis businesses here in the Beaver State. Portland alone has over 167 dispensaries and enough coffee shops to merit the title third most caffeinated city in America. The blending of bean and flower here is as natural as it was inevitable.

AARP

Her company was sold. Then it was reorganized. And finally her position was eliminated. At age 70 Anne Hudson found herself unemployed and with few options to re-enter the workforce. She sought assistance from the Oregon Employment Department to help her in finding a similar job with comparable pay, but not long after she realized that the chances of that happening for someone with her profile were slim. She needed a new plan.

Maryland International | Fall 2011, Vol 11

At 2 o’clock in the morning on October 14, 1961, then presidential candidate John F. Kennedy challenged a crowd of 5,000 students on the steps of the University of Michigan Union to go abroad and serve their country in the name of peace.

Less than a year later, President Kennedy signed an executive order that officially created the U.S. Peace Corps.

While the term ‘locavore’ may have been coined in the Bay area, the buy local, eat local movement is practically baked into the culture of the City of Roses. Come summertime, the abundance of Oregon’s agriculture will be on full display at over two-dozen farmers markets across the Portland Metro area. And so will the reality that many of these farming operations are predominantly owned and operated by aging, white farmers.

Enter Unity Farm.