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There’s no better way to explore a new city than a walking tour, and no Oregon city celebrates theater quite like Ashland.

Created as a joint effort among several southern Oregon organizations, the Ashland Playwrights Walk currently spans roughly a mile across the city. Each stop on the map features a locally made plaque honoring playwrights throughout history.

Read more here: https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2026/09/ashland-walking-tour-celebrates-playwrights-with-locally-made-plaques.html

📸 Allison Barr

The festival brought more than 100 vendors (80 food stalls and 20 selling merchandise or handmade goods), 200-plus Asian street food dishes, cultural performances and panda-themed attractions to Portland. Organizers expected around 10,000 attendees Saturday.

The food lineup offered dishes and desserts that aren’t always easy to find at a single Portland festival, from Japanese grilled squid and tanghulu, or candied fruit skewers, to dumplings, sushi and mochi desserts.

The festival continues Sunday.

Read more here: https://www.oregonlive.com/live-entertainment/2026/09/portlands-newest-festival-a-15-foot-inflatable-panda-and-over-200-asian-street-food-dishes.html

📸 Allison Barr and Chiara Profenna

Halloween’s already started. At least according to Spirit Halloween, the pop-up chain that each year temporarily possesses more than 1,500 vacant storefronts across the country.

This year, Spirit Halloween is haunting 25 different locations across Oregon.

Watch as three Oregonian/OregonLive reporters check out the only Spirit store technically in Portland city limits.

Read more here: https://www.oregonlive.com/retail/2026/08/spirit-halloween-is-open-already-here-are-all-25-locations-in-oregon.html

As legend warns, speaking the name “Macbeth” inside a theater — in any context beyond what is strictly ordained in the script — is destined to bring disaster.

Ashland’s Shakespearean escape room — coyly called “The Scottish Play,” to avoid any verbal slips — borrows its lore from a 1937 production of “Macbeth” at London’s Old Vic theater, during which lead actor Laurence Olivier was nearly crushed by a fallen stage weight.

Presented by Escape Ashland and designed alongside the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s artistic team, “The Scottish Play” imagines its guests as a ragtag troupe of understudies.

Read more at the link in our bio.

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A hike to Clear Lake Butte fire lookout on Mount Hood brings you up close with tradition. See how PGE is expanding on that tradition with the deployment of new fire detection cameras and other efforts that increase Oregon’s wildfire detection capacity. http://share.ntv.io/sponsored/new-tech-bolsters-mount-hoods-iconic-fire-lookouts/?ntv_a=SZMKASHV7AjQcSA