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Jenn Chávez
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Host & producer of The Evergreen at @opb.org // Newscaster Emeritus // Proud member of @opbkmhdcreators.bsky.social // Reppin’ community radio // HMU: jchavez at opb dot org // 🇲🇽
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Agent Dale Cooper standing in the woods in front of a chalkboard with a map taped onto it, next to a table full of donuts in front of a big pile of firewood, with a bucket at his feet.
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Come for the article, stay for Kathryn Styer Martínez's characteristically gorgeous photos, like this one of dancers with Purepecha Cocucho:
Four dancers seen only from about the shoulders to the knees, in motion and twirling in brightly multicolored dresses. Panels on the front of the dresses at the chest and on the skirt are lined with a gold floral pattern and have an illustration of two dancers with "Purepecha Cocucho" above and below them in bold capital letters. The pictured dancers' arms are wrapped in scarves, and bright ribbons hang down from their hair out of frame.
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Portland icon 🥰
Outdoor wooden sign for the Portland business Mr. Plywood. It's a jovial smiling guy wearing blue overalls and a red cap with a pencil behind his ear. His eyes are hollowed out like holes in wood, and he's got his hands in his pockets with his elbows our in such a way that he's in the shape of a diamond.
October 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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So stoked for this panel on 10/11!
I'll be talking w Ifrah Ahmed, Heena Patel, Claudette Zepeda & Adriana Urbina abt immigrant stories in the culinary field, food’s power for storytelling & cultural preservation, sharing & reimagining food traditions & more. Tix:
www.rouxportland.com/upcoming-eve...
Bright pink flyer-style image featuring black and white images of four women with their names above: Ifrah Ahmed, Heena Patel, Claudette Zepeda and Adriana Urbina. Text reads: Powerhouse Panel Moderated by: Jenn Chávez Saturday, October 11th at the Redd, 4:30-6:30pm
September 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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On the other hand… we grew these. Please admire our poppies.
20 to 30 golden poppies growing in a garden bed. Behind them are taller bushes with red and purple dahlia blooms. Which we also grew!
August 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Happy weekend 🌞 please enjoy these flowers from our garden
Red, yellow and purple dahlias growing tall in a garden with a vine covered fence and sunsetty dusk sky in the background Close up of a single red dahlia with plants and trees out of focus in the background Golden poppies growing & blooming in the sun with taller plants behind them
August 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Happy Portland Pride everyone 🌈
And shoutout to my union ✊
Me with a rainbow fan wearing a rainbow SAG-AFTRA shirt waiting on the Park Blocks for the march to get started
July 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Please enjoy this chicken I met today [she is breaking the fourth wall]
A chicken in a coop with white, brown and orange spots looking directly at the camera
May 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Ray from Trailer Park Boys being arrested, in the possession of a piss jug
May 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Have a great night folks
From Teen Girl Squad, a stick figure drawing on lined paper. A teen girl with curly hair, cat eye sunglasses and a dress is being shot with a bunch of arrows, much to her dismay. To her right stands a giant bald man wearing a tie shooting like ten arrows out of his mouth at her. The screen says ARROWED!!!
April 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Also, did you know that we recorded a live podcast about reproductive health & cancer research, AND brought the giant DIY uterus constructed in the OPB TV studio for the All Science, No Fiction story on this topic with us to the venue? And that you could take a picture with it? Anyway here it is:
Welp, what can I say, it's a giant homemade uterus. It's maybe 4-5 feet tall, built on a paint-splattered wood base. It's painted shiny red and pink, with an oval shaped opening in the middle, and it's got red bendy fallopian tubes with ovaries on the end that look like the top of big Q-tips. It's in the front corner of the Tomorrow Theater, lit by a spotlight. It was used in the video to illustrate the effects of different reproductive health conditions that scientists are hoping to treat. At one point during its construction, it's said to have looked like a Yoda head, and was given the nickname Yodarus by an OPB employee.
March 14, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Here to briefly punctuate your doomscrolling with some nice photos I took recently. (hang in there, baby)
Portland South Park Blocks at night. Overhead lights are strung overhead, above the Shemanski Fountain in center frame, a stone structure with a cupola, with its center opening currently boarded up. A gold plaque is in front, streetlights in the background. A large bush full of pinkish-red flower blooms, partially obscured behind a chain link fence, with stickers and graffiti on the pole. An interior staircase at night, inside Portland'5 Centers for the Arts. The stairs and bannister lead diagonally to the upper right of the frame, and the stairway is lined with lights. Visible through large windows are the lit up Portland sign and marquee of the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. The inside of a shining iridescent dome at the top of the Portland'5 Centers for the Arts, seen from the top floor. Across the way someone stands in an alcove looking off the balcony.
March 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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May we all wake up in the middle of the night tonight & house an entire cheesecake with our friends
Still from The Golden Girls. Rose, Dorothy, Sophia & Blanche gather around the table of their extremely 80s kitchen, wearing pajamas and robes, preparing to stress-eat a shitload of cheesecake together at midnight
March 1, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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A small Friday gift for you: these are pics that Oregon ice sculptor Chris Foltz sent me of the massive piece he & his teammates built last week for the '25 World Ice Art Championships. It's based on the song "Welcome to the Jungle." Yes that is the entirety of Guns N' Roses & also a sick leopard.
A shot of the back of a giant ice sculpture, outdoors in a snowy forest at night. There are big subwoofers made of ice, and life-size band members of Guns N' Roses performing. Each piece is made of ice and connected by a giant ice stage on top of the snow. A big ice sculpture of a leopard in a snowy forest. There's light shining through the ice. The leopard is standing on a log and there's a great deal of detail in the leopard's spots and the grooves on the log. An ice sculpture of the band Guns N' Roses, seen from the front, in a snowy forest at night. Life-sized ice sculptures of each member, including Slash leaning back playing a guitar riff, are all connected by a stage made of ice on top of the snow. There's also subwoofers made of ice and there's two pistols and a rose carved onto the surface of the stage.
March 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Who would like to see a nice cat?
Here is our friends’ cat, whose name is Grandpa. Please enjoy
A sleepy cat on a person’s lap. They are mostly grey with white on their face and paws. Left paw and tail reach toward the camera. Very cute.
February 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Shoutout to anyone who caught any of the Twin Peaks references we've snuck in The Evergreen. My intro to ep. 1 reflects on OR evergreens, & ever present in my mind writing it was "I've never seen so many trees in my life" "I've got to find out what kind of trees these are - they're really something"
Still from Twin Peaks - Agent Cooper's first scene. He's in a suit talking into a handheld tape recorder while driving into Twin Peaks.
January 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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In the interest in keeping everyone updated on movies filmed/set in Oregon, I recently discovered one I’d never heard of on TCM called The Lusty Men (lol). ‘50s western w/ Robert Mitchum & Susan Hayward about passion & danger on the rodeo circuit. Dramatic final scene at the Pendleton Round Up!
Still from a black & white western movie. Robert Mitchum talking to an older guy, leaned up against the wall looking pensively off screen and dressed as, basically, a hot cowboy. Cowboy hat, denim jacket with the top unbuttoned, hands near his hips with a thumb through his belt buckle.
January 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Vince Guaraldi in front of the Golden Gate Bridge with a handlebar mustache and skinny tie jovially winking at you
December 23, 2024 at 4:16 AM
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I have learned so many Audition hotkey shortcuts in the past week; I am drunk with power
Elmo with hands raised victoriously surrounded by flames
November 15, 2023 at 5:34 PM
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A street at sunrise, sky and clouds lit up orange and pink
October 31, 2023 at 2:50 PM