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Whether you played it in the back of your classroom or on your computer at home, if you were a kid in the last 30 years you almost certainly grew up playing The Oregon Trail.

TIL: James Cassidy of Information Society is a soil scientist at OSU

Explore Portland's Lad's Edition, a unique neighborhood that deviates from the city's typical street grid. Discover its unusual diagonal streets and planned green spaces, contrasting with surrounding areas. This video details the neighborhood's history and architectural evolution, from its origins to its present day.

A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin offers a biographical and poetical portrait of one of Oregon’s best known artists. Examining important moments and themes in Le Guin’s life and oeuvre, the exhibition encompasses a rich variety of media, immersing guests in the ideas, playfulness and hope that course through Ursula K. Le Guin’s art. The exhibition is curated by Theo Downes-Le Guin, the author’s son, with contributions from many others who knew the author or her work.

The Portland Bureau Of Transportation's (PBOT) Ride Through the Seasons campaign aims to encourage Portlanders to keep on riding their bike past summer and into fall. Join us for rides and events, with the chance to win prizes along the way. Riding in the rain is not only possible, it's fun too!

2020 was a gnarly year. Covid, lockdowns, elections, police killings and subsequent protests, then on top of it all, much of September spent keeping our house closed up, changing air filters weekly, and running fans with air filters duct-taped onto them all over the house while we tried to get some sleep.

The Portland (Ore.) Police Bureau is posting photos of Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested in that city onto its Facebook page, and this has got some members of the public buzzing.

"Fallen rap stars MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice are to team up for a concert in Utah. The 90s stars will perform a one-night-only joint show, called Hammer Pants and Ice, at the McKay Events Center in Orem on February 27."

"I'd rather set myself on fire than eat at this dump again."