The purple octopus that hung outside the Greek Cusina restaurant in downtown Portland became a city landmark. Fredrick D. Joe/The Oregonian (Fredrick D. Joe/The Oregonian) This story has been ...

Purple is Catt Gallinger’s favorite color. Pictures of the Canadian model often showed her sporting purple hair or purple lipstick, or the purple tinge of her numerous tattoos peeking out from ...

WALLA WALLA -- A court hearing has been set in the lawsuit filed by a downtown toy store owner who is trying to save his giant, purple octopus mural on constitutional grounds. The hearing before ...

Time ran out for the giant purple octopus mural Thursday morning in Walla Walla, Wash. By 7 a.m. PT, the giant sea creature that once blanketed the storefront of Inland Octopus, a toy shop on the ...

Greek Cusina, a longtime Portland restaurant with the giant purple octopus out front, has closed but the controversy is far from over. Owner Ted Papas, who has been at odds with the city of ...