Portland in the News: Seaweed Dinners, New Baby Elephant, Black History Month Pop-Up Museum & More | February 6, 2025

The Oregon Zoo welcomed its first elephant calf in over a decade and it’s a girl!

Marine educator Alanna Kieffer thinks you should have more seaweed for dinner. Her seaweed event series is back for its third year.

And Old Town’s Horizon Enterprise Building hosts its first pop-up museum in honor of Black History Month. 

Here’s a roundup of the goings-on in Portland this week:

• OR ArtsWatch: Review: ‘Samsara’ at Profile is not to be missed
• That Oregon Life: The most bizarre museum in Oregon will leave you scratching your head in wonder
• OregonLive: Portland Timbers’ Diego Valerie finding joy in the art of winemaking
• Here is Oregon: Portland Art Museum’s renovated space will feature new gallery dedicated to Black art
• City of Portland: Introducing Portland’s first 5 snowplow names