Get Busy: What to Do in Portland (Oct. 21–27, 2026)

Check out textile artist Bridgette Hickey’s talk, listen to HEARD! A Service Industry Storytelling Show, and go to the QDoc Film Festival.

Shows of the Week: Portland Folk Stalwart Laura Veirs Plays Polaris

Also: Dystopian punks Machine Country are at The Six Below Midnight, and rapper Akai Solo plays Swan Dive with drummer-producer Bobbyy.

OMG: Piers Morgan DESTROYS Pro-Putin Stooge LIVE ON AIR!

SICK F***: Vance suggests random brown guy is an ILLEGAL

WATCH: Trump Just THREW A TANTRUM At Reporters, INSTANT REGRET🚨

ALERT: Trump appointees asked cybersecurity agency to SECRETLY HACK voting machine ahead of midterms

I’m STILL NOT Backing Down

‘Life, Interrupted’: Inside Trump’s Third Country Deportations

False pamphlets causing backlash and confusion, Texas transgender rights group says

The mailers, sent by an organization formed last month in Wyoming, implicate a Texas transgender rights group that says it was not involved.

Portland Band How Strange It Is Takes on Everyday Evil and Infrastructural Decay

The shoegaze band releases its blistering second album, ‘There Is No Evil,’ at Show Bar on Oct. 22.

Trump says if Ukraine doesn’t make a deal with Russia it’s ‘going to get worse’

🚨Trump Makes HUGE MISTAKE with Jack Smith…

AG Blanche HITS PANIC BUTTON and Sends out DOJ Goons to intimidate ELECTION WORKERS!

Portland Teens and Tweens Are Wild for ‘Wildwood’

The marketing machine is in full swing nationwide for the new Laika film, but nowhere more meaningfully than in Portland.

Four Fairy Tales That Bite

Shaking the Tree Theatre brings a quartet of Caryl Churchill’s dark fairy tales to life.

Eileen Myles on 1978 New York, Their Portland Small Press and ‘Bird Watching’

The New York poet is in town for Fonograf Editions’ 10th anniversary benefit Oct. 23 and 24.

Trump speaks at midterm campaign rally in NC

TRUMP FORGETS HE’S ON CAMERA | Susan Collins has INTERN AFFAIR + Trump & Russia LEAK

Trump BURNED As Fox News Hits Him With Crushing James Talarico Surprise

October 20, 2026 – PBS News Hour full episode

October 20, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode