Hotseat: Zeke Johnson

The Amnesty International activist applauds Ron Wyden—but says the Oregon senator needs to do more.

Q & A Who watches the watchers? Lately, it’s been Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).  Who watches Wyden?... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by AARON MESH

Feds Tell States: Build Columbia River Crossing or Return Our $178.5 Million

Washington Republicans Call the Letter a Scare Tactic

News If Oregon and Washington don't break ground on the Columbia River Crossing by spring 2014, the f... More

May 17, 2013 02:58 pm by ANDREA DAMEWOOD
 
 

Special Election 2013 Endorsement Cheat Sheet

News As reported today on our website, only 21.5% of ballots for this year's May special election had... More

May 20, 2013 01:00 pm by WW Staff
 
 

This Robe For Hire

A retired chief justice of the state Supreme Court lobbies for the insurance industry.

News Last week, the Hon. Paul J. De Muniz, recently retired chief justice of the Oregon Supreme... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by NIGEL JAQUISS

Money Bucket

Portland wants every city to have its patented toilet.

Cover Story Anne Peterson is a problem solver. She may not look like one—her dyed maroon hair... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by AARON MESH

Hotseat: Mike Daisey

The controversy-courting monologuist professes love for an industry that has savaged him.

Q & A Mike Daisey is sucking up to the industry that pilloried him. After it emerged... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by REBECCA JACOBSON
 
 

Hales Mandates Security Guards, Port-a-Potties at Last Thursday

News Mayor Charlie Hales keeps showing up to neighborhood messes with a shovel. First he went after big apartments without parking spaces, then tried to set curfews for loud bar patios. The mayor's latest target for increased quality control? It's Last Thursday, the 15-block Alberta Street bohemian free-for-all that never even had to apply for a city permit until last year. When the festival returns on May 30, Hales' office says the permit issued to Friends of Last Thursday will come with lots of new... More

May 21, 2013 11:30 am by AARON MESH
 

Cut of the Day: "Pendulum," Pure Bathing Culture

Music If I told you the new single from Pure Bathing Culture was dreamy and heart-swelling, would you really be surprised? Probably not. ... More

May 21, 2013 10:59 am by MATTHEW SINGER
 

Rest of Nation Mocks Portland Over Fluoride Vote

News People of Portland, the rest of America is watching us. And some of them are laughing.The fluoridation fight (to be decided tonight! Vote!) has h... More

May 21, 2013 09:45 am by ANDREA DAMEWOOD
 

With Ballots Being Counted Tonight, More Money Flows Into Pro-Fluoride Campaign

News The long-running reality show known as Measure 26-151, which would require the fluoridation of Portland's water supply, draws to a close today.Ba... More

May 21, 2013 09:12 am by Nigel Jaquiss
 

From the Elbow #9: The Next Next Big Thing

The Draft Combine is only the prologue to the never-ending NBA season, but for the Blazers, it could be a glimpse at the future.

News The NBA has no off-season. Certainly, Portland-based professional basketball fans have moved on to other leisure-time activities since ... More

May 20, 2013 04:26 pm by MIKE ACKER
 
 

Seattle is Shopping for a Portland Loo

Enjoy WW's video tour of the $90,000 purchase

News Portland may have found a new market for its toilet exports: Seattle.Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn decla... More

May 16, 2013 08:01 am by Aaron Mesh
 
 

Portland Police Traffic Stop Goes Fowl

Mayor Charlie Hales has made it no secret he wants to cut spending at the Portland Police Bureau –... More

May 15, 2013 02:45 pm by ANDREA DAMEWOOD
 
 

This Robe For Hire

A retired chief justice of the state Supreme Court lobbies for the insurance industry.

News Last week, the Hon. Paul J. De Muniz, recently retired chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, strode into a state capitol hearing room to offer his legal opinion on a bill being debated by l ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by NIGEL JAQUISS

Money Bucket

Portland wants every city to have its patented toilet.

Cover Story Anne Peterson is a problem solver. She may not look like one—her dyed maroon hair and gold-rimmed sunglasses hint at her second life as a “Burner” (one who regularly attends Burning Man)�� ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by AARON MESH

Hotseat: Zeke Johnson

The Amnesty International activist applauds Ron Wyden—but says the Oregon senator needs to do more.

Q & A Who watches the watchers? Lately, it’s been Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).  Who watches Wyden? Zeke Johnson. Johnson is the director of Amnesty International USA’s Security with Human Rights ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by AARON MESH

Counting Cards

A state audit says the Department of Human Services isn’t tracking food-stamp fraud.

News In the wrong hands, food stamps can buy a lot more than milk and bread.  State officials say they know there’s a black market for Oregon Trail cards, the electronic debit-style cards used ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by ANDREA DAMEWOOD

Headout: Know Your Sausage

Jawohl! Maifest, Germany’s oldest sausage party, is here.

Headout Oktoberfest gets a lot of column inches—the legislated purity of Bavarian beer, the goofy hats, the giant urinal troughs—while Maifest always gets short shrift. And who does not excite himse ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Hotseat: Mike Daisey

The controversy-courting monologuist professes love for an industry that has savaged him.

Q & A Mike Daisey is sucking up to the industry that pilloried him. After it emerged that he’d lied in an episode of This American Life about Apple’s factories in China, journalists raked Daisey over th ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by REBECCA JACOBSON

Trekking Nowhere Fast

Where’s JJ when you need him?

Movie Reviews & Stories JJ Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness has gotten great reviews. Already released in Australia, Mexico and other countries, the movie’s U.S. release was delayed because of a competing opening of T ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by MITCH LILLIE

Puttering Around

Taking a swing at Portland’s putt-putt courses.

Culture Miniature golf is still wholesome. Unlike kickball, dodgeball, roller skating or pinball, it’s still mostly played sober, fueled by ice cream and the sweaty palms of teenage romance. Among the ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by WW Staff

George Rozwick, Accordion Master

At age 94, Portland’s accordion king is still pushing buttons.

Music Stories The accordion has 233 buttons, 41 keys and 8,888 chords. George Rozwick won’t claim he knows all the chords off the top of his head. Pretty much everything else, though? He’s got it. Of cour ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by KAITIE TODD

Bringing Out the Dead

A PSU student attempts to recreate a lost Grateful Dead show, based on the memories of those who were there. Good luck!

Music Stories They say anyone who remembers the ’60s wasn’t there. Tell it to Travis Neel. For the last six months, the 29-year-old Portland State University graduate student has been studying the Gratefu ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by BRANDON WIDDER

The Iceman

A true-crime nightmare that’s completely cold.

Movie Reviews & Stories Michael Shannon—whose hot streak of late includes 2011’s best (and most overlooked) performance in Take Shelter—has steadily built a catalog that dips into a huge swath of roles, from heroes ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by AP KRYZA

Album Review: Scout Niblett

It’s Up to Emma (Drag City)

Album Reviews [HEARTBROKEN ROCK] Don’t be fooled by the picture on the cover of Scout Niblett’s new album, a photo-booth shot of a couple in full make-out mode. The heart of It’s Up to Emma is not a rom ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by ROBERT HAM

My Children! My Africa! (Profile Theatre)

Starts with sugar, ends with meat.

Performance For the first 45 minutes of Profile Theatre’s My Children! My Africa!, you may think a latter-day Mr. Chips has single-handedly defeated the entire edifice of 1980s-era South African apartheid w ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Album Review: Morning Ritual

The Clear Blue Pearl (Self-Release)

Album Reviews [POP OPERA] Concept albums demand some suspension of disbelief and a little imagination from the listener. When the story being related is in the realm of epic fantasy, as is the case with Morni ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by CASEY JARMAN

Top Five Songs From Anthology of American Folk Music

Top 5 “The Cuckoo,” Clarence AshleyThis is one of those grand old songs from across the seas that is timeless and transcends the limits of our current mode of musical thought.“See That My Grave is ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by JOE MCMURRIAN

Slide Inn: Slide By

Bar Reviews The vaguely Germanic Slide Inn (2348 SE Ankeny St., 236-4997, slideinnpdx.com) is an ambitious restaurant. It’s also an abject failure: Fried polenta is a flavorless crunch coated in a discordan ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR

Headout Picks: 5/15/13

Headout Picks THURSDAY MAY 16 THE OFFICE FINALE [TV] When did you stop watching The Office: When Jim and Pam got together? When they had a baby? When Michael left? When it was revealed that Dwight had a siste ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by WW Culture Staff

Brew Views: Spring Breakers

Disney gone wild.

Brew Views The words “spring break” are repeated so often in Spring Breakers that the phrase takes on a mantralike quality. Still best known for writing Kids and directing Gummo, backwater auteur Harmony K ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by MICHAEL NORDINE

Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival

James Franco, porn stars and hate crimes.

Movie Reviews & Stories For the seventh year, the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival—the only one of its kind in the country—returns for a weekend of gender-bending, boundary-breaking and cross-dressing, with a ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by WW Staff

Dr. Know: The Truth Laid Bare

Does Portland really have the highest number of strip clubs per capita?

Dr. Know I always hear that Portland has the most strip clubs of any city in the U.S.—or at least the most per capita. Are either of these claims even slightly true? —Statistically Curious I don’t ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by MARTY SMITH

Murmurs: It’s Not Too Late to Let Police Horses Unionize.

Murmurs Just as Mayor Charlie Hales moves to bust the Portland police commanders union, a bill to expand the rights of police brass to unionize is working its way through the Legislature. House Bill 2418 ex ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by WW Editorial Staff

Gary Greenberg, The Book of Woe

Crazy for claims forms.

Books As a defense mechanism, the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders was equal parts identification and repression. Having weathered a decade of attacks from the ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Yellow Bellies

Which local mustards pass muster?

Food Reviews & Stories Most shelves at the Made in Oregon store are stocked with the obvious: Jams made from native berries, our famous wines and cheeses, the blankets our pioneers traded to indigenous people before s ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR

Drank: Lila (Hair of the Dog)

Drank Old dogs are notoriously reluctant to perform new tricks. So someone give Hair of the Dog brewmaster Alan Sprints a good belly scratching for his new Lila Maibock. Sprints’ brewery will celebr ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR

Ries Above

Testing 11 grocery-store-bought Oregon rieslings.

Drank Oregon rieslings are not like German rieslings. Grown in the cool climates along the Rhine river, traditional German rieslings are sweet and fruity. Though the Willamette Valley is also known fo ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by KAITIE TODD

Scoop: Gossip Letting the Music Rule its Life.

SCOOP FEST-ERING: A new Portland-centric music festival is making its debut this summer—and it’s happening the same weekend as PDX Pop Now! The 8 Track Relay—a 24-hour event meshing music with runni ... More

May 15, 2013 12:01 am by WW Culture Staff

Fluoridation Trails by Nine Points in KATU Poll

News Ballot Measure 26-151, which would fluoridate Portland's water supply, trails by nine points in a su... More

May 10, 2013 07:17 pm by Aaron Mesh
 
 

Chew on This

Sure, we’re about to vote on fluoride, but also on issues about kids and open spaces. Here are WW’s endorsements for the May 21 ballot.

Elections Many election battles vow an eye for an eye. But this spring’s fight is something even fiercer: a tooth for a tooth. This off-year election—held in a season when voters might be understandably ... More

May 1, 2013 12:01 am by WW Staff
 

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