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How did Portland mourn the death of Michael Jackson yesterday? By riding bikes and zombie dancing in the street. In other words, by doing what...

As much as we don't want to admit it, the glory that is Pedalpalooza is winding down. But lo, it is not over yet! In honor of this last surge of optimism, we've compiled a few of our must-cycle events (with their descriptions) for the next two days.

Before the performers hit the stage or music filled the tiers of the Keller Auditorium, I knew I was in trouble. Rent, a Broadway classic, hit movie,...

So this is it, the final edition of GamerVania for WW as my internship ends. Assuming you can still read through your tears, thank you all for reading my video game blog. For me, it has been like high-fiving awesome and French-kissing bad ass.

But it has been a fine ride, so please, no tears, no regrets. Well maybe a few tears. And maybe a cake or something. Nothing too crazy. I'd even takea goodbye pie. Or a rally. In fact, how about a riot? It works for LA when they win championships! Maybe just a flipped car? I mean it isn’t like I expect a Buddhist monk to light himself on fire in protest, or a guy to stop a row of tanks by standing in their way or anything. Although…

Oh yeah, my final edition.

I'm trying something a bit different. Instead of my normal takes, I thought I would do a recap style edition. There is even one mistake I made. Yeah, I know! Crazy that I could possibly make a mistake! So in a fair and balanced response to that mistake, I decided to do everything I my power to destroy the game that fooled me into thinking it was a good game. With luck the developers will be shamed . Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me-….cant get fooled again! And now to the interwebs!

The 3rd annual Stumptown Joustdown hit the pavement at Colonel Summers Park on Saturday, June 20. Gutterpunks, hipsters, children, spouses and an epic number of dogs (bicycle lovers, all!) congregated for a day's worth of good-natured cycling carnage. For those who missed the two-wheeled violence, here are some highlights.

Two new movies opened today, neither screened for critics by WW press time. Better to flunk them tardily than let them pass...

The Proposal

Now there’s a title for a romantic comedy. The premise is similarly grand: A Manhattan career woman (Sandra Bullock) blackmails her emasculated assistant (Ryan Reynolds) into a sham wedding engagement, to save herself from sudden deportation as a Canadian citizen. Unfortunately, this entails a journey from the Land of Letterman to Sarah Palin Country, where the assistant’s Alaskan family lives and where, it turns out, laughs go to die. Here Bullock undergoes a maudlin regression to girlhood, desperate less for a man than for his parents, and where’s the romance in that? It’s The Taming of the Shrew, presented by Focus on the Family Theatre, and did you know they show sitcoms on the television, for free?

24-year-old Ali Sethi's sprawling debut, The Wish Maker—a family saga about growing up in Pakistan—made this year's list of Vogue's top ten...

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