Arts & Culture

<em>Sesame Street</em> characters pose under a "123 Sesame Street" sign in celebration of their 40th anniversary in 2009.
Sesame Workshop will 'downsize significantly' with layoffs, CEO says
The layoffs come after 200 Sesame Workshop employees announced they want to form a union.
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'Hamilton' cancels planned Kennedy Center performances
The hit musical joins a number of other productions and acts that have pulled out of appearances at the Kennedy Center since President Trump took over the storied venue last month.

The complete list of 2025 Oscars winners
"Anora" won five Academy Awards, including best picture. Zoe Saldaña and Kieran Culkin won best supporting actress and actor. "Flow" and "No Other Land" won best animated feature film and best documentary.

‘At Work With’: How an Oregon family became masters of Mexican cheese
For OPB’s “At Work With” series, which asks Pacific Northwesterners from different professions what it’s like to do what they do, we go inside Don Froylan Creamery.

Portland geographer explores lessons from the Hunger Games
Dove Makes found an audience making highly-researched videos exploring the cultural geography of the Hunger Games series, and thinks the dystopian series has lessons for our present moment.

What should win vs. what will win — here are NPR’s Oscars predictions
There are 10 movies in the running for best picture. Our critics are split over whether "Anora" or "Nickel Boys" should take home the prize.

Gene Hackman, who thrived playing the tough guy, dies at 95
Hackman epitomized a 1970s, edgy, tightly wound masculinity. He appeared in more than 100 movies and TV shows, and won Oscars for his performances in "The French Connection" and "Unforgiven."

Chemawa Indian School opened 145 years ago in Forest Grove
The Forest Grove Indian Industrial School opened on February 25, 1880. It was the first school of its kind on the West Coast and the second federally funded, off-reservation Native American boarding school in the country.

'Conclave' triumphs at SAG Awards and Timothée Chalamet wins for best actor
The papal thriller and the lead in Bob Dylan biopic 'A Complete Unknown' were surprise winners on Sunday, adding a few final wrinkles to an unusually unpredictable awards season.

As Trump takes over leadership at Kennedy Center, some protest through dance
President Trump and his appointees are now solely in charge of the Kennedy Center. Performers protested by dancing.

January 6th ... the board game?
Fight for America! is a new art installation about democracy that invites audiences to play a war game — battling over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.