Willamette Week arts critic, author, and Beau Brummell and bon vivant, Richard Speer responds to the ultra Q in which ultra asks Portland’s movers and makers a number of pressing questions

Qualities you most admire in design:
Elegance, mischief,…

The Portland design community flexes at its annual Portland Design Expo at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts. Sponsored by the PDX chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, it goes down Wednesday, November 30 from…
Homeland has a new home, and with 3000 sf, you would think leisure boater Paul Middendorf had moved to the ‘burbs, but no, it’s really the perfect spot for a Paige (Saez)-style skate party, and it’s at 222 SE…

Troy Briggs
Justin Oswald’s GALLERY 500 (420 SW Washington, Suite 500) goes out smashingly with a final show featuring the exquisitely moody work of Troy Briggs. Briggs shows with artist Nicholas Di Genova through November.

The fabulous Paige Saez shows new work at Pause Gallery (625 NW Everett, Suite 110). The show opens tonight and if you have any sense at all, you’ll go, and not only because Paige’s work has the kind…