Amy Lam

There’s something electric about live theater. Nothing compares to the brief moment of darkness at the beginning of a show that suddenly transports us to a different world once the stage lights illuminate the set. More

Oregon is home to the fifth-largest population of Vietnamese Americans in the U.S. (and 2% of the population of Portland), where they’ve brought along their rich and bright cuisine to the Pacific Northwest. More

Rikeem Sholes jokes that when he decided to study marine biology, he hadn’t realized he’d have to be outside so much. He grew up in New Orleans in a Black family that wasn’t the outdoorsy type, and it was his job that led him to find happiness in nature. Since 2017 his work as a fish biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has brought him to the Pacific Northwest, where Oregon’s landscape deepened his appreciation for the outdoors. But he noticed something was... More

Anyone who has ever coasted down Interstate 84 or driven the twisty roads up to Timberline Lodge understands why the fantasy-like Columbia River Gorge and Mt. Hood have lured motorists since the first highways were built more than a century ago. More