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Summer Guide 2013: Introduction

Catch a trout, bounce between trees, climb a snow-capped mountain, surf the river and kill your own food.

Cover Story Portland reminds us of an adult summer camp—and not just because of the low wages, rugged fashion... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by WW Staff

Mortar Combat

City officials want answers about a contractor who got $88,000 under a minority set-aside program.

News Last September, the nonprofit Blanchet House of Hospitality cut a blue ribbon to dedicate... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by AARON MESH

Stuck in the Ruts

Hales’ pledge to pave streets has no plan—and no money.

News Laura Young says it’s about time someone at City Hall gets serious about paving... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by SARA SNEATH

Vanifest Destiny: The Shower Scene

The logistical challenges of waking up without a place to piss.

Culture It’s 8:30 in the morning and I have to pee. This is a common problem,... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by PETE COTTELL

Gold Chain

In defense of Shari’s, America’s best freeway-exit diners.

Food Reviews & Stories Portlanders rarely miss a chance to feel their hearts swell with... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR

A Superhero’s Shakespeare

Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing is a smart and chummy soiree.

Movie Reviews & Stories Much Ado About Nothing is all about trickery. The comedy—one... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by REBECCA JACOBSON
 
 

Out of Print

So much music. So little page space. Here are some shows we missed in this week's print edition.

Music Wednesday, June 19Luciano, Ikronik [REGGAE] The Jamaican singer praises Jah with uniquely infectious joy. Hawthorne Theater, 1507 SE 39th Ave., 233-7100. 8 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. Mattress, XDS, Swahili, Grapefruit [BAD SEED] Portland's synth-soul-sermonizer's got a new tape called Fuck the Future, which is appropriate, since fucking the future is exactly what Mattress sounds like he's doing. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $5. 21+. &... More

Jun 19, 2013 06:47 pm by WW MUSIC STAFF
 

Zombie Zoo: World War Z Reviewed

Movies & Television World War Z so passed us by we forgot to mention it in this week's paper, much less screen it by press deadline. Turns out we needn't have bother... More

Jun 19, 2013 03:23 pm by CURTIS WOLOSCHUK
 

State Dismisses City Complaint About Minority Contractor

News The state economic agency that certifies minority-owned contractors has rejected a city watchdog's complaint that asked whether a company that re... More

Jun 19, 2013 02:45 pm by AARON MESH
 

Skanner Says Baruti Artharee's Behavior at Skanner Event "Proves How Much Work Still Needs to be Done"

News The publisher of The Skanner newspaper, host of a June 6 event where Baruti Artharee, a top aide to Mayor Charlie Hales, allegedly made "inapprop... More

Jun 19, 2013 02:44 pm by ANDREA DAMEWOOD
 

Oregon Bus Project Leader to Step Down

News Caitlin Baggott, the executive director of the Oregon Bus Project, announced today in a statement that she will step down at the end of the summe... More

Jun 19, 2013 02:11 pm by NIGEL JAQUISS
 
 

Summer Guide 2013: Introduction

Catch a trout, bounce between trees, climb a snow-capped mountain, surf the river and kill your own food.

Cover Story Portland reminds us of an adult summer camp—and not just because of the low wages, rugged fashion or widely varied grooming habits. Deserted on winter weekdays, this town really comes alive as ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by WW Staff

Mortar Combat

City officials want answers about a contractor who got $88,000 under a minority set-aside program.

News Last September, the nonprofit Blanchet House of Hospitality cut a blue ribbon to dedicate a $12.9 million, four-story homeless meal kitchen and transitional housing shelter in Old Town. The city ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by AARON MESH

Stuck in the Ruts

Hales’ pledge to pave streets has no plan—and no money.

News Laura Young says it’s about time someone at City Hall gets serious about paving Portland’s dirt roads. She lives in the Cully neighborhood, where 10 percent of city streets look like mud wallo ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by SARA SNEATH

Summer Guide 2013: Summer Events Calendar

Featured Stories June Wednesday, June 19 Plan your summer Read this calendar and plan the best summer of your life. Thursday, June 20 See Weezer open a computer store Rivers Cuomo is now an old creeper without a ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by WW Staff

Summer Guide 2013: Killing Me Softly

A hunter’s kid seeks the true meaning of farm-to-table.

Featured Stories There is already blood on the ground when I arrive at Camas Davis’ Southwest Portland backyard. It pools into the pores of a decorative rock and dribbles onto the soil. The blood is too bright a ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Summer Guide 2013: The Small Ax

Avoiding sunburnt eyeballs on the slopes of Mount St. Helens.

Featured Stories I have no business with an ice ax. This realization pops into my stocking-hatted head only after I’m well above the treeline on Mount St. Helens, climbing a steep pile of mushy white snow. Eve ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR

Vanifest Destiny: The Shower Scene

The logistical challenges of waking up without a place to piss.

Culture It’s 8:30 in the morning and I have to pee. This is a common problem, I know. For most people, it is easily solvable. For most of my own life, it was easily solvable. But now that I live in a ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by PETE COTTELL

Gold Chain

In defense of Shari’s, America’s best freeway-exit diners.

Food Reviews & Stories Portlanders rarely miss a chance to feel their hearts swell with civic pride, especially when it comes to unfancy food. While our upper tier is only what a city of our size and wealth requires—w ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR

Headout: Tree Toppers

Learn how tree-climbing competitions work.

Headout Tree climbing is an activity most often associated with children and barefoot hippies—two groups that wouldn’t stand a chance at this weekend’s Portland Regional Tree Climbing Competition. ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by BRANDON WIDDER

Risk/Reward Festival

A salad bar of boundary-pushing performance.

Performance Think of the Risk/Reward Festival as speed dating for contemporary performance. In one night, you’re introduced to six performers. Each has a different way of moving, of grooving, of talking, ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by REBECCA JACOBSON

Summer Guide 2013: I Believe I Can Fly

An anti-outdoorsman goes fishing for salvation.

Featured Stories It’s a drizzly Memorial Day morning, and I’m standing in calf-deep water in a Yamhill River tributary, searching for redemption. More literally, I am learning tenkara, the Japanese method of ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Summer Guide 2013: One Toe Over the Line

A WW staffer breaks the law and loses her balance.

Featured Stories The park rangers must have been lying in wait. Out of the corner of my eye, I see them approaching. The man is tall with a shaved head and small spectacles. With him is a dark-haired woman.  ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by REBECCA JACOBSON

Summer Guide 2013: The Wind Beneath My Wings

A So-Cal transplant who’s never surfed boards the Gorge.

Featured Stories There’s a moment of calm before it takes me. I stand stagnant on the deck of the board as it gradually coasts atop the water and my body gently trembles from a sense of eagerness. I’m not quit ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by BRANDON WIDDER

A Superhero’s Shakespeare

Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing is a smart and chummy soiree.

Movie Reviews & Stories Much Ado About Nothing is all about trickery. The comedy—one of Shakespeare’s best—centers on two strong-minded singles, Beatrice and Benedick, each determined never to love and never to mar ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by REBECCA JACOBSON

Back in Focus

Shaken by cancer and complacency, Camera Obscura needed a change. They found it in Portland.

Music Stories No one could ever mistake Desire Lines as anything but an album by Camera Obscura. All the identifiers are there: melodies meshing the chirp of ’60s radio pop and ’80s post-punk devilry, and t ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by ROBERT HAM

Church: Come All Ye Faithful

Bar Reviews The sign in front of Church (2600 NE Sandy Blvd., 206-8962, churchbarpdx.com) says “Eat. Drink. Repent,” but they’ve got it all wrong. If you’re Catholic, at least—the borrowing place fo ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Album Review: Natasha Kmeto

Crisis (Dropping Gems)

Album Reviews [ELECTRO R&B] Natasha Kmeto can’t get no satisfaction, and it’s killing her. As a singer raised on both the come-ons of ’90s R&B and the all-night throb of house and trip-hop, the ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Summer Guide 2013: The Cascadian Campsite

Outfit yourself with cool gear from local companies.

Featured Stories Click on image to view larger version:IMAGE: Matt Wong1. Fort George Stainless Steel Double Wall Growler Available at: Fort George Brewery, 1483 Duane St., Astoria, 325-7468, fortgeorgebrewery.com ($ ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by WW Staff

Jim Gavin, Middle Men

Major, you better have a look at this…

Books Midway through this ticking time bomb of a short-story collection about the attempted middle class, a young screenwriter receives advice from a pal of his rich, lubricated uncle: “Get in good ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by MARK CHRISTENSEN

Headout Picks 6/19/13

Headout Picks WEDNESDAY JUNE 19 PANCAKE FILM FESTIVAL [MOVIES] Since its founding in 2007, this Illinois-based festival has been presenting stacks (geddit?) of short films made by flapjack fanatics. Tonight t ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by WW Culture Staff

Top Five Must-Sees at Closer Electronic Music Festival

Top 5 John Tejada (Friday, Refuge) The meticulous, melodic house master (pictured) is bringing his all-hardware (read: MacBook-free) set to Portland for its stateside debut. Eat your heart out, San Fra ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by MITCH LILLIE

Album Review: The Builders and the Butchers

Western Medicine (Badman)

Album Reviews [APOCALYPTIC FOLK] The Builders and the Butchers’ fifth album is largely influenced by the postapocalyptic literature of Cormac McCarthy, and it shows: Western Medicine is just as cheerless as T ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by BRANDON WIDDER

Dr. Know: Weakly by the Willamette

Are there any major cities besides Portland that use the weak-mayor system?

Dr. Know Portland has a “weak mayor” system of governance where the mayor shares power with four commissioners. It took me a little while to wrap my head around that. Are there any other major cities ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by MARTY SMITH

Drank: Tender Loving Empire (Fort George Brewery)

Drank Fort George’s Tender Loving Empire Northwest Pale Ale is named after the venerable Portland indie-pop record label and boutique, and it drinks the way many of the bands on the label sound: pleas ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Murmurs: So What’s a Few Million Here and There?

Murmurs Officials pushing the Columbia River Crossing are concealing the true costs of multimillion-dollar deals they have reached to win support of manufacturing firms affected by the proposed freeway br ... More

Jun 18, 2013 04:03 pm by WW Editorial Staff

Scoop: Gossip Up All Night to Get Lucky.

SCOOP GENTRIFYING KARAOKE: According to a liquor-license filing last week, the totally suite Voicebox karaoke lounge plans to double up with a 4,000-square-foot, eastside location in the old Spike’s aut ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by WW Culture Staff

Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble: Thursday, June 20

Portland jazz bids farewell to one of its leading lights.

Music Stories How will Portland jazz survive without Andrew Oliver? Since Hurricane Katrina blew the young pianist back to his hometown in 2005 after a few years at New Orleans’ Loyola University, he ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by BRETT CAMPBELL

Primer: Come

Reunion Tour

Music Stories Years active: 1990-2001, 2008, 2010-present.  Sounds like: Television and the Stooges-inspired darkness, with dueling, strained guitar lines turning into a lascivious, bluesy and slightly dr ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by ROBERT HAM

Jewish Film Festival

Oy vey, enough with the kvetching.

Movie Reviews & Stories Because there just aren’t enough Jews making movies, the NW Film Center’s annual celebration of Yids in cinema returns for its 21st year. As the festival enters its second week, here’s wha ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by WW MOVIE STAFF

The Bling Ring

Trapped in the closets of the rich and famous.

Movie Reviews & Stories Sofia Coppola has spent much of her career enticing viewers to shed a tear for the poor little rich boys and girls of the world. With her fifth feature, she turns her attention to the sidelines, ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by CURTIS WOLOSCHUK

Brew Views: The Sapphires

Soul sisters.

Brew Views According to crusty Irish boozer Dave—played with impeccable comic charm by Chris O’Dowd, Kristen Wiig’s cop boyfriend in Bridesmaids—country-western and soul music are both rooted in loss. ... More

Jun 19, 2013 12:01 am by REBECCA JACOBSON
 

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