The oldest African lion at the Oregon Zoo died Friday following a seizure, the zoo announced Saturday. Neka, 16, came to Portland from the Virginia Zoo in 2009, when the Oregon Zoo opened its $6.8-mil
That's one way to talk about other human beings. As writer Elizabeth Weil notes in a new profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in New York Magazine , the powerful AI executive has a disconcerting penchant
R29Unbothered continues its look at Black culture’s tangled history of Black identity, style, and contributions to the culture with ROOTS , our annual Black History Month series. In 2022, we’re redefi
You wake up with a stuffy nose, so you head to the pharmacy, where a plethora of options awaits in the cold-and-flu aisle. Ah, how lucky you are to live in 21st-century America. There’s Sudafed PE, wh
Hello! See, I told you I wouldn't send these more than once a week! I've been doing Stuff, and Things, including getting the latest Covid booster and this year's flu shot. If you can get those shots,
Last night, like many nights before, I ate alone. In public. On purpose. I sat at the bar in a well-regarded Italian restaurant and ordered a bowl of spaghetti and a glass of wine. I picked a seat in
Claudia’s Sports Pub , a beloved neighborhood sports bar that held down its spot on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard for 65 years, will close after serving on Monday, October 9, the bar announced this we
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A few years ago, I was talking with someone about trying to figure out what community would look like in the early days of the vaccine. He told me that in his Canadian neighborhood, there’d been a spe
This pink flag that says QUEERS AGAINST CAPITALISM has been hangging in my apartment for as long as I can remember. It comes from some rally/event I attended in the 2000s I guess. Back in 2005 or 2006
T he night before my first book came out, I lay awake envisioning all the ways it could ruin my life. What if I get sued because I made a mistake? What if I get harassed online? What if I get such bad
A historic Hollywood labor battle will soon be over. The 148-day writers’ strike, the second longest in Writers Guild of America history, will conclude on 12:01 am PT Wednesday thanks to a vote from g
'Scott Pilgrim Takes Off': Anime Teaser, Announcement, Date, Cast - Netflix Tudum News Fall in Lesbians with the ‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’ Anime Series The anime adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s hit
What did people do before they could look something up on the internet? That’s what comedian Sarah Adelman, 26, wanted to know after she found herself with a dead cellphone trying to navigate her way
L ong Covid goes by many names . Today, it is no longer a new public health enigma, but the outlook for sufferers is no better than when the condition was first recognized in early 2020. Although its
Credit: Jorm Sangsorn/Getty Images “He paid no attention to persons around him. When taken into a room, he completely disregarded the people and instantly went for objects, preferably those that could
For the love of Maddie Hayes, look what’s coming to Hulu : For the very first time, all 67 episodes of Moonlighting will be available to stream on the platform beginning October 10. Hulu promises that
As the city of Portland approaches a new form of government in 2025, the transition to the city’s new bureau and program structure is well underway. Just two weeks ago, the city released a proposed or
The “modern” Web, especially when served via our phones and social media, makes it too easy to live without intent. Hour after hour. Days at a time. Cumulatively months even. Maybe for years. While mo
It’s over. We don’t know the details yet, but it’s over. Considering NegComm seemed ready to go to 2025, I have to assume we’re going to be pleasantly surprised as the details of the deal start to lea
The Writers Guild of America and the major Hollywood studios have reached a tentative deal that would end a strike that has lasted 146 days, tossed thousands of people out of work and exposed deep anx
An artist's Illustration of Hoʻoleilana. (Image credit: Frédéric Durillon, Animea Studio; Daniel Pomarède, IRFU, CEA University Paris-Saclay.) A mysterious structure nearly 1 billion light-years acros
Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov , Alyosha, the novel’s central protagonist, asks hi
Former employees of Wonderwood Springs picketing outside the cafe. Alice Wolfe/Eater Portland Last fall, fantastical, art-lined cafe Wonderwood Springs opened in St. Johns alongside a gallery space fr
PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN ) — Celebrated Portland artist Mike Bennett issued a statement on the Wonderwood Springs Instagram account on Sept. 15 following a reported dispute between the coffee shop’s rece
Earlier this month, when Portland artist Mike Bennett and an associate announced they would be taking over ownership of the North Portland cafe next door to Bennett’s immersive art experience Wonderwo
In early July, Meta introduced Threads , a text-posting social-media application that was clearly designed to steal market share from Twitter, which continues to struggle under the leadership of Elon
Sometime in the summer of 2020, I noticed an occasional, searing pain shooting up my right forearm. It soon became clear this was a byproduct of a gesture that had become as commonplace as breathing o
Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max bring a lot to the table across the board, from a gaming-ready chip, to USB-C, and — of course — photography. It is that last point where we are putting the emphasis,
Justina Worrell, 47, works part time as a kitchen helper in an Ohio nursing home. She has cerebral palsy, an intellectual disability, and a cardiac condition that required she get an artificial heart
I’ve been messing around with an idea to write a weekly piece here about scenes and scene-work, from the point of view of an idiot novelist who arrived in Los Angeles with a job on a TV show and no id
Credit: akinbostanci/Getty Images What happens when we actually die—when our heart stops and all electrical activity “flatlines” in our brain? Humans have been asking this question since time immemori
Scientists Eye Offshore Wind’s Effects on the Atlantic’s Crucial Cold Pool Scientists are rushing to understand how New Jersey’s planned offshore wind farms might alter the mid-Atlantic cold pool, hom
The cat door at the Exeter Cathedral in Devon County, England, is a strong contender for the oldest cat door on record. Courtesy of Diane Walker / Exeter Cathedral For centuries, humans across the wor
T hink of what you want to eat for dinner this weekend. What popped into mind? Pizza? Sushi? Clam chowder? Why did those foods (or whatever foods you imagined) appear in your consciousness and not som
Urban League of Portland President and CEO Nkenge Harmon Johnson, right, waves at the crowd from a wagon during the Westward Ho! Parade in Pendleton, Ore., Sept. 15, 2023. Antonio Sierra / OPB James M
The rate at which the universe is expanding, known as the Hubble constant, is one of the fundamental parameters for understanding the evolution and ultimate fate of the cosmos. However, a persistent d
This year, about 70,000 people gathered on a dry lakebed, or playa, in northwestern Nevada’s Black Rock Desert for the annual Burning Man festival. The environmental consequences of the event have lon
It’s yet another sign that while the official pandemic state may be over, the days of COVID are far from it. Viral wastewater levels are not far behind all of the pandemic’s 2020 peaks except for one—
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