{"id":314895,"date":"2026-08-06T03:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314895\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T03:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:05:07","slug":"willamette-week-scene-queens-portlands-finest-drag-artists-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314895\/","title":{"rendered":"Willamette Week: &#8216;Scene Queens: Portland&#8217;s finest drag artists of 2026&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Last year, Willamette Week debuted its inaugural &#8220;Portland\u2019s finest drag artists issue&#8221; to much acclaim.<\/p>\n<p>This year, they&#8217;re bringing it back, surveying the city\u2019s pageants, revues, brunches and more to find the city&#8217;s top artists&#8211; and introduce us to the top five queens of the city, according to a poll of their peers.<\/p>\n<p>To break it down, WW\u2019s Andrew Jankowski joined KATU on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Click above to watch the segment and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wweek.com\/culture\/2026\/08\/05\/scene-queens-portlands-finest-drag-artists-of-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a> to read more from Willamette Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Last year, Willamette Week debuted its inaugural &#8220;Portland\u2019s finest drag artists issue&#8221; to much&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-314895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}