Portland’s fanciest chickens will cluck and strut down the runway at Portland Weird Festival’s Chicken Beauty Contest this Saturday.
Speaking of chicken, the New York Times shouted out Division’s OK Chicken & Khao Soi in it’s 2026 Restaurant List.
And if you’re looking for your next favorite vegan spot, the Circle V vegan food and drink festival will highlight Portland plant-based creativity this Sunday.
Here’s a roundup of the goings-on in Portland this week:
- KOIN: Bite and sip into Portland vegan scene at Circle V
- Mercury: In Search of Portland reveals an evolving, ever-changing city
- PDX Monthly: Portland’s grocery store history A-Z
- OPB: Oregon’s comic universe
- OR Arts Watch: Documentary being made about late, great air guitar hero
- Portland Tribune: Portland Weird Fest brings chicken beauty contest, kids raves and bizarre bands to Oaks Park
- PDX Monthly: ‘Wildwood’ really is Laika’s most ambitious project yet
- AP: $1.1 Billion from Nike co-founder will build Oregon’s first women’s hospital
- Food & Wine: This Portland restaurant is an ambitious celebration of Vietnamese cuisine
- YouTube: ‘In Search of Portland’ walking tour
- KOIN: 2 Oregon restaurants featured along NYT’s 2026 favorite restaurants
- Here is Oregon: 10 new and upcoming Portland restaurants to know this fall