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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As the former WW Music Editor leaves town, we remember some of his finest work.

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

Top selling albums and songs in Portland, June 10-16

Lineup! Getcha free all-ages music festival lineup here!

A short documentary film on Warped Tour fans at the Portland Expo Center.

Not a guide to Portland’s best restaurants—just seven Portland diners.

Not a guide to Portland’s best restaurants—just seven Portland diners.

Not a guide to Portland’s best restaurants—just seven Portland diners.

Not a guide to Portland’s best restaurants—just seven Portland diners.

Eugene-based Chez Ray, the Dead's cook, now roasting beans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learn how tree-climbing competitions work.

A salad bar of boundary-pushing performance.

An anti-outdoorsman goes fishing for salvation.

A WW staffer breaks the law and loses her balance.

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

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

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

Crisis (Dropping Gems)

Outfit yourself with cool gear from local companies.

Major, you better have a look at this…

Western Medicine (Badman)

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

Portland jazz bids farewell to one of its leading lights.

Reunion Tour

Oy vey, enough with the kvetching.

Trapped in the closets of the rich and famous.

Soul sisters.