Samantha Swindler
@editorswindler.bsky.social
Reporter for The Oregonian and Here is Oregon, covering arts, interesting people, silly things & weird stuff.
Prayers for everyone dealing with their weird uncles on this day 🙏
The Thanksgiving Filter - Acoustic - Go-Go Boots - Drive-By Truckers
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November 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Prayers for everyone dealing with their weird uncles on this day 🙏
“Christmas” officially starts at 4pm today when a timer will flip on the White Stag’s red nose on the Portland, Oregon sign for the first time this season.
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“Christmas” officially starts at 4pm today when a timer will flip on the White Stag’s red nose on the Portland, Oregon sign for the first time this season.
The new Can Can Portland theater looks amazing! Can't wait to check this place out.
‘Nutcracker’ burlesque show puts a risqué spin on a holiday classic
“‘Twas the Night Before Nutcracker” blends burlesque, Broadway and acrobatics in its grown-up reimagining of the classical ballet.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The new Can Can Portland theater looks amazing! Can't wait to check this place out.
This could be the last holiday shopping season for Lloyd Center:
This could be your last chance to shop at Lloyd Center mall for the holidays
Take a few more laps around the ice-skating rink and support the indie businesses that remain.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This could be the last holiday shopping season for Lloyd Center:
Breaking news: People remain fundamentally good.
How a single photo of a Toyota Highlander in a vast desert got a lost camera back home
While camping in Oregon's Alvord Desert, a couple found a digital camera containing hundreds of photos – and a clue about its owner.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Breaking news: People remain fundamentally good.
Am I bad at delegating? Or is everyone else bad at DOING??
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Am I bad at delegating? Or is everyone else bad at DOING??
Whenever we watch Marvel movies, my husband (at my request) will pause them to explain all these obscure character backstories. Last night we watched Wicked, and it was my turn: Ariana/Ethan drama, who is Jonathan Bailey and his slutty glasses, "holding space," etc. Magical time. 10/10
a man in a blue suit is dancing in a room with stairs .
ALT: a man in a blue suit is dancing in a room with stairs .
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November 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Whenever we watch Marvel movies, my husband (at my request) will pause them to explain all these obscure character backstories. Last night we watched Wicked, and it was my turn: Ariana/Ethan drama, who is Jonathan Bailey and his slutty glasses, "holding space," etc. Magical time. 10/10
This is so cool. Love this for the kids and the building.
Nation’s oldest youth orchestra buys landmark Portland church
Central Lutheran Church members found a new steward for their architecturally significant building.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is so cool. Love this for the kids and the building.
This lil' event I help organize in Milwaukie on New Year's Eve is looking for vendors. Are you interested? Reach out! There's a vendor application on the website: binginthenewyear.com
Bing in the New Year
Milwaukie's free, family-friendly cherry drop and New Year's Eve celebration.
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November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This lil' event I help organize in Milwaukie on New Year's Eve is looking for vendors. Are you interested? Reach out! There's a vendor application on the website: binginthenewyear.com
You have a few more days to check out the new Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts for free during its soft opening:
New museum honors Portland’s place in the comic arts
“We have more comic professionals per capita than any other city in the world. It’s time for the community to understand that and celebrate that.”
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November 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
You have a few more days to check out the new Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts for free during its soft opening:
When I fill out your contact us form and I don't get an email receipt and don't hear from you immediately, I get a level of anxiety that I could probably talk to a therapist about. Please send "thank you for contacting us" receipts 🙏
November 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
When I fill out your contact us form and I don't get an email receipt and don't hear from you immediately, I get a level of anxiety that I could probably talk to a therapist about. Please send "thank you for contacting us" receipts 🙏
I cannot say enough nice things about the ROTC cadets at Oregon State who helped me find a 99-year-old "Rosie the Riveter" at the Linn County Veterans Day Parade.
Oregon town hosts the largest Veterans Day parade on the West Coast
Organizing a parade this size is a big undertaking. Close to 100 volunteers are needed, helping staff 15 staging points across 18 city blocks.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I cannot say enough nice things about the ROTC cadets at Oregon State who helped me find a 99-year-old "Rosie the Riveter" at the Linn County Veterans Day Parade.
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National Guard troops were at Portland ICE building despite court ban, feds admit
Portland police Cmdr. Franz Schoening testified at trial he was "startled" by federal officers' unjustified use of tear gas and other less-lethal munitions on passive protesters outside the ICE buildi...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Another year, another Halloween where I was not invited to the kind of party where the adults were hypnotized in Hocus Pocus. 😔
October 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Another year, another Halloween where I was not invited to the kind of party where the adults were hypnotized in Hocus Pocus. 😔
If you were raised pretty white trash and never saw one before, and then one day when you’re 44 a pomegranate shows up in your farm box, buddy that is a wild ride.
October 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
If you were raised pretty white trash and never saw one before, and then one day when you’re 44 a pomegranate shows up in your farm box, buddy that is a wild ride.
This story highlights some of best home haunts in the greater Portland area (Newberg is a bit out there but ... just go with it):
Portland-area duo turns yard into skeleton carnival, featuring a 12-foot, mirror-tiled ‘Huge Jackman’ (and no clowns)
These are houses decorated to the max, where visitors can enjoy free trick-or-treat thrills.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This story highlights some of best home haunts in the greater Portland area (Newberg is a bit out there but ... just go with it):
This video is hard to watch
‘I can’t breathe,’ man tells ICE agents in Spanish five times during Portland arrest
The man was on a DoorDash delivery run at the time that another Portland resident filmed his arrest.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This video is hard to watch
I know it says it's for teens but I love Five Below!
Teen-favorite discount retailer to open first Oregon store next month
The Portland-area store will be among the chain’s first in the Pacific Northwest.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I know it says it's for teens but I love Five Below!
Judges Bade and Nelson found that the federal government is likely to succeed in its argument that there was a “threat of rebellion” outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland:
Appeals court, in 2 to 1 split, puts hold on restraining order barring Trump from deploying Oregon National Guard
Senior Circuit Judge Susan P. Graber wrote a 35-page dissent.
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October 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Judges Bade and Nelson found that the federal government is likely to succeed in its argument that there was a “threat of rebellion” outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland:
What we know about which federal agents are at ICE and what weapons they're using:
Federal agents at Portland ICE facility: Who are they and what weapons do they use?
Homeland Security guidelines allow "objectively reasonable" force, but civil rights attorneys say agents use force indiscriminately.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
What we know about which federal agents are at ICE and what weapons they're using:
“When you have people in inflatables bouncing around ... it’s going to be very difficult to say this was a war zone, this was a riot. It de-escalates with ICE, it de-escalates with protesters, it de-escalates with counter-protesters — and, ironically enough, the pepper balls bounce right off.”
Why Portland ICE protesters are showing up dressed as giant inflatable animals
"Operation Inflation" is stocking a rack of free inflatable costumes near the site of Portland ICE protests.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“When you have people in inflatables bouncing around ... it’s going to be very difficult to say this was a war zone, this was a riot. It de-escalates with ICE, it de-escalates with protesters, it de-escalates with counter-protesters — and, ironically enough, the pepper balls bounce right off.”
Portland's largest mausoleum has traditionally only be open to the public over Memorial Day weekend, but there are now offering a few select tours throughout the year. A must see for any history fan, and a few tickets are still available for Sept. 26:
Wilhelm's Portland Memorial Mausoleum Guided Walking Tour
Rising eight stories tall and offering seven miles of serene interment space, Wilhelm's proudly stands as the West Coast's largest mausoleum
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September 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Portland's largest mausoleum has traditionally only be open to the public over Memorial Day weekend, but there are now offering a few select tours throughout the year. A must see for any history fan, and a few tickets are still available for Sept. 26:
I visited Oregon's five smallest cities. Here's part 1!
How one of Oregon’s smallest cities is moving past its wild, infamous history
We visited the five smallest cities in Oregon. Here’s what we found in No. 5.
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September 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I visited Oregon's five smallest cities. Here's part 1!
Facebook is where the worst people I know share the worst political opinions, but I remain because I got some sweet free cabinets on Marketplace yesterday 🫠
September 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Facebook is where the worst people I know share the worst political opinions, but I remain because I got some sweet free cabinets on Marketplace yesterday 🫠
I'm the lloyd center reporter now:
‘Lightsabers on Ice’ brings monthly after hours cosplay party to Lloyd Center ice rink
Friday night was an official after party for Rose City Comic Con, but organizers plan to do similar ice skating events each month.
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September 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I'm the lloyd center reporter now: