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Almost Live: Spurs at Blazers

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OSPIRG Examines Tax Credits, Sees Little Benefit

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Another Clutter-Fueled Fire Prompts Warning From Firefighters

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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

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 WW Staff

Beer of the Future

A new era of Oregon hops will better your brew.

Cover Story Four years ago, things were great for Gayle Goschie. She was growing hops on the same 1,000 acres in the Willamette Valley that her parents and grandparents had tended, selling a key ingredient More

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Pet Love

Special Valentines: Pooch poetry, cat chat, and warm wishes for goldfishes.

Cover Story Love and ink create a potent alloy. Shaw Flick’s chest testifies to that. The 29-year-old Portland man is tattooed with a nearly life-size portrait of his dog, Scurvy. Make that Flick’s ex-d More

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 WW Staff

Thai Hard

Andy Ricker takes Pok Pok to New York. Do his wings have a prayer?

Cover Story Pok Pok? The woman in the woolen hat mouths the words on the sidewalk in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where Andy Ricker has opened the latest outpost of his Thai-food realm. She scrunches More

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 AARON MESH

Weed All About It

Will 2012 be the year Oregon finally adopts a reasonable marijuana policy?

Cover Story Oregonians love marijuana. Take a walk along Southeast Clinton Street some summer evening and you’ll get contact confirmation. The most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health, from More

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 BEN WATERHOUSE

Jail Birds

The fastest-growing group of inmates in Oregon: Women. A look inside Coffee Creek.

Cover Story The archetypal prisoner of the last century wore stripes and carried a ball and chain. In the early part of the 21st century, he wore an orange jumpsuit. The typical 2012 inmate may instea More

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 HANNAH HOFFMAN

Booze Wars

Grocers think they can finally break the state’s 80-year, nearly $500 million monopoly—but at what cost?

Cover Story Steve Pharo has something just outside his Milwaukie office door that Joe Gilliam wants—$70 million worth of vodka, whiskey, tequila and every other distilled spirit sold in Oregon. PHARO - IM More

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 NIGEL JAQUISS

Crazy Enough

Getting off, snorting up and wrestling with family demons—excerpts from Storm Large’s new memoir.

Cover Story Storm Large is calling from the Four Seasons in New York, where she is having lunch. “I’m looking at Martha Stewart, Tom Brokaw, Vernon Jordan,” she says. “I’m in a den of 1 percenters. More

Wednesday, January 4, 2012 WW Staff

2011: The Costume Party

You didn’t need a funny outfit to make news this year, but it sure helped.

Cover Story All Images WW Photo IllustrationsDavid Wu’s tiger suit was the tip-off that 2011 was going to be a strange one. The year opened with a sitting congressman posing in a child’s orange-and-black More

Wednesday, December 28, 2011 WW Editorial Staff

Voodoo Child

Doughnut kingpin Tres Shannon wants to make the whole city his fun park.

Cover Story At 2:42 am, Tres Shannon decides we need to see if Occupy Portland has shut down the Port of Portland. It’s a Tuesday morning, 30 minutes after Shannon’s weekly set at Dante’s with his Kar More

Wednesday, December 21, 2011 AARON MESH

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