Arts & Culture

As the city-wide celebration of books enters its 21st year, voracious readers across the Pacific Northwest are readying their tote bags and updating their to-be-read lists in preparation for the literary wonderland.

2025 is expected to be one of the best years ever for Oregon hazelnuts, that's despite an ongoing and mutating hazelnut blight affecting crops throughout the Willamette Valley.

“It’s stressful, but it’s a fantastic lifestyle,” said Sumpter Valley rancher Dean Defrees on OPB’s “At Work With” series.

"67," pronounced "six seven," spread from a rap song, through sports and social media, to classrooms and homes across the U.S. But even the artist who coined it struggles to define it.

For multiple independent cinemas, 2025 marks a century of welcoming film fans.

The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings.

Decades after newspaper publisher Amos Voorhies died, a chance find at a garage sale revived thousands of rare photographs of early Josephine County life.

The alleged leader of the scheme, a 77-year-old German man from Bavaria, also tried to sell counterfeit works supposedly by Frida Kahlo, Amadeo Modigliani and Peter Paul Rubens, authorities say.

The actor, whose career spanned films, TV dramas and soap operas, was beloved for her roles in "Lassie" and "Lost In Space." She died on Thursday of natural causes, a family friend said.

From brands and influencers to a viral "Inspector Clouseau," the world's most glamorous theft is also quickly becoming one of the year's most profitable memes.