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Your Weekend Reader for May 20-21

Independence’s renaissance. Oregon’s state motto. More bad press for Portland. Mount St. Helens. It’s tick time. Paul Simon goes deep. AM radio’s last stand. And the Cannes Film Festival. It’s all in the new (albeit late) edition of Your Weekend Reader.

Your Weekend Reader for May 13-14

An election looms. Theater or theatre? Philomath News. Hot enough for you? AI and nuclear codes — a good combo? Steely Dan is back. And those other Pulitzers. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.

Your Weekend Reader for May 6-7

A few words about the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. What was Fagan thinking? Lee Enterprises in Buffalo. World Press Freedom Day. The coronation. Expanding stars and exploding whales. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.

Your Weekend Reader for April 29-30

Spring weather, at last. Beavers in the news. An easier way to get your veggies. Lee Enterprises. A requiem for newsrooms. Portland shoots back at Portland. More about that undersea leak. Why you don’t answer your phone. And Jessie Ware, just in time. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.

Your Weekend Reader for April 22-23

Get your poems ready for Thursday. Earth Day and Record Store Day fall on the same day — coincidence? Netflix. Kristof on guns. Good Food Awards for Philomath and Corvallis. And Miller High Life. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.

Your Weekend Reader for April 15-16

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival. “The Phantom of the Opera.” The Cascadia subduction zone, harbinger of doom. Bill Bradbury. Lee Enterprises. TikTok. Twitter. NPR. Ice cream, good for you? And introverts. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.

Your Weekend Reader for April 8-9

Breaking eclipse news. Clarence Thomas and his good friend. Twitter labels for Musk companies. A boom in homelessness. Beer awards and book awards. Flu news. “Star Wars” questions. And Ann-Margret! It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.

Your Weekend Reader for April 1-2

It’s April, National Poetry Month, so let’s get ready to read. “The Waste Land.” A drug to treat cat coronavirus runs afoul of the law. Objectivity and journalism. Public radio. Loose states and tight states. Neckties. And Adley Rutschman. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.

Your Weekend Reader for March 25-26

Just in time for spring break: A (mostly) all good-news edition of Your Weekend Reader. Also: Wolverines. Comfortable shoes. Moans and groans. A historic basketball game. And John Wick.