Featured Stories About 24 hours ago, I started playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 online in the middle of the Willamette Week office. I have stopped for food, bathroom breaks and occasional unescapable professio More
24-Hours of Modern Warfare 3
Six million Modern Warfare 3 fans can’t be wrong…can they?
Featured Stories About 24 hours ago, I started playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 online in the middle of the Willamette Week office. I have stopped for food, bathroom breaks and occasional unescapable professio More
Rat Bastard
Stephan Pastis draws a funny newspaper comic. Weird, right?
Featured Stories Last week’s funny pages found Pearls Before Swine auteur Stephan Pastis, who draws himself into his strip as a slouchy chain-smoker with a goatee and a backwards ball cap, feuding with a 9-year-o More
Author! Author!
Wordstock writers in their own words.
Featured Stories This Saturday and Sunday, the Oregon Convention Center will be overrun by some 150 novelists, journalists, poets and cartoonists for the 2011 Wordstock book fair. The big names on the marquee inclu More
Best of Portland 2011: Then & Now
Featured Stories 1985 - Best Pizza Thrower Dave Hite is something of a hero among working-class eaters. Before the bespectacled young man from Spokane, best known as the dapper saxophone player for the Fabulous K-T More
Best of Portland 2011: Best Sights & Sounds
Featured Stories Best Multicultural Sports League The former British Empire can be criticized for a lot of things—plunder, slaughter, incest—but at sporting fields around the greater Portland area, you can also More
Best of Portland 2011: Best Places
Featured Stories Best Total Toolbox You hear it on the news, or you heard it from Michael Keaton in Gung Ho: America just doesn’t make things anymore. The cars and iPhones are all offshored or down-bordered, while More
Best of Portland 2011: Best Bites & Nights
Featured Stories Best Cheap Date After the second wettest spring on record, the sun is finally making brief public appearances in Portland. And so Portlanders are tentatively emerging from their holes, tattoos More
Best of Portland 2011: Best Reads
Featured Stories Best Divine Dilettantes If you’re in the market for a religious experience, Amanda Westmont and Joel Gunz might be able to lend you some wisdom. The pair has been attending a different Portland ch More
Best of Portland 2011: Best People
Featured Stories Best FanIt’s the summer of the Timbers, as Portland’s new Major League Soccer franchise has finally replaced Portlandia and the Stumptown sale (but not the weather—never the weather) as the de More
Summer Guide 2011: Go Play Outside
You have 32 days off before the end of September. Here’s how you’re going to spend them.
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BurgerQuest
Local blogger and restaurateur Nick Zukin ate 72 bistro burgers in three months to find the ultimate burger in Portland. Best New Band 2010
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The inimitable sound and admirable ideals of the local hardcore legends you've never heard of. Best New Band 2009
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Matt Gone hated his ailing body. Then he drew on it. Live Not-So-Nude Girls
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Best of Portland 2011: Best People
Summer Guide 2011: Go Play Outside
You have 32 days off before the end of September. Here’s how you’re going to spend them. Out Of Sorts
A group of Portland printers revives the lost art of metal type casting.
Local blogger and restaurateur Nick Zukin ate 72 bistro burgers in three months to find the ultimate burger in Portland. Best New Band 2010
Our seventh annual poll of Portland’s music insiders unveils 10 local bands you’ve just got to see. Tragic Inspiration
The inimitable sound and admirable ideals of the local hardcore legends you've never heard of. Best New Band 2009
Portland’s music scene insiders pick their favorite breakthrough acts of the past year. Ink-Stained Wretch
Matt Gone hated his ailing body. Then he drew on it. Live Not-So-Nude Girls
In the Land of a Thousand strippers, burlesque revivalists have been second-class citizens. Until now. Best of Portland 2011: Best Places
Best of Portland 2011: Best People
Summer Guide 2011: Go Play Outside
You have 32 days off before the end of September. Here’s how you’re going to spend them. Out Of Sorts
A group of Portland printers revives the lost art of metal type casting.
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