Bikin’ In The Rain

A practical guide to riding through Portland’s damp seasons.

Cover Story The rain will stop. When it does, thousands of smiling noobs will pedal shiny candy-colored cruisers and used mountain bikes with fake suspension forks along our streets. They’ll ride to work a ... More

Feb 22, 2012 12:01 am by WW Staff

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No Such Thing As Free Coffee

Oregon’s Transportation Department is losing control of rest areas—and the cost of keeping them safe and clean doubles.

News For the Oregon Department of Transportation, February is the cruelest month. Legislators are wrestling with health-care... More

Feb 22, 2012 12:01 am by NIGEL JAQUISS

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Schmear Apparent

We miss Kettleman’s bagels, too. Who can replace them?

Food Reviews & Stories Kettleman Bagels is in zombie mode. Things have slipped fast since the beloved local bagelry sold out last November to Colorado-based Einstein Bros. Kettleman’s superb boiled bagels... More

Feb 22, 2012 12:01 am by PENELOPE BASS

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Whiffs of Trouble

A fertilizer plant comes under criminal investigation after repeated ammonia leaks.

News The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched a criminal investigation into a large leak of ammonia from a Columbia County fertilizer plant in 2010 that went undetected for five days. Re ... More

Feb 22, 2012 12:01 am by BRENT WALTH

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Oh, The Places We’ve Been!

Mapping the terrain of a land called PIFF.

Movie Reviews & Stories No festival is an island. They’re regional importers, which is why the Portland International Film Festival shares so many titles with its sisters in Seattle, San Francisco and the Film Society ... More

Feb 22, 2012 12:01 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE, AP KRYZA, AARON MESH, MATTHEW SINGER

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Hotseat: F.W. de Klerk

The Nobel Laureate and last white president of South Africa talks cultural identity and Obama’s prize.

Q & A In South Africa, F.W. de Klerk was an unlikely reformer. He had risen in that country’s white-minority power politics... More

Feb 22, 2012 12:01 am by PATRICIA SAUTHOFF

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A practical guide to riding through Portland’s damp seasons.

Oregon’s Transportation Department is losing control of rest areas—and the cost of keeping them safe and clean doubles.

We miss Kettleman’s bagels, too. Who can replace them?

A fertilizer plant comes under criminal investigation after repeated ammonia leaks.

Mapping the terrain of a land called PIFF.

The Nobel Laureate and last white president of South Africa talks cultural identity and Obama’s prize.

What Portland is wearing this week.

Top Selling Albums in Portland for Feb. 13-19

Top Selling Albums in Portland for Feb. 13-19

Almost every brewery in Oregon will open its doors to the public this weekend. Here's where you should go.

This week in OLCC applications.

PDX Cartathalon II

Mapping the terrain of a land called PIFF.

We miss Kettleman’s bagels, too. Who can replace them?

Gossip hotter than a Trinidad Moruga scorpion.

Fixing a city charter right out of Dickens.

A fertilizer plant comes under criminal investigation after repeated ammonia leaks.

The Nobel Laureate and last white president of South Africa talks cultural identity and Obama’s prize.

PIFF ends with horrors and prostitutes.

White-knuckled, white-haired shuffleboard at Havana West.

A survey of jazz guitar from Django to the Portland Jazz Festival.

What it’s like to dance ballet’s toughest role.

The Darkness is back...and cleaner than ever.

How well do Portlanders sort their trash?

So much depends on avoiding as many stop signs as possible.

Unlock the power in your quads!

Your bike will take you anywhere. But what about your stuff?

A little regular care can save you an expensive trip to a mechanic.

Coping with Oregon sunshine through trial and error.

It is better to light one blinker than to be run over by a Hummer.

8 awesomely nerdy things to do in Portland, Feb. 20-26