It’s That Time Again

The Eighth Annual Time-Based Art Festival invades Portland.

Featured Stories Another year, another eye-popping array of avant-garde performance, dance installations, paintings, video and live madness from PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival. Now in its eighth year, the two-we ... More

Wednesday, September 8, 2010 WW Arts & Culture Staff

Art On The Water

A former Navy boat becomes a studio haven for Portland artists.

Featured Stories The Labrador, a massive boat docked on the Willamette River near the edge of Sauvie Island, was once used to pick up the dead in World War II. The 135-foot craft looks out of place, dwarfing all the p ... More

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Roxanne Macmanus

Dear Mum

How’s Australia? Here’s what I think of Portland…

Featured Stories Love, Ruth BrownP.S. Andy Wright took these photos.I arrived in Portland less than two months ago from Melbourne, Australia. My husband, James, was offered a job here, and I agreed to leave behind my ... More

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 RUTH BROWN

Burning Man On The Willamette

PDX Bridge Festival raises some communal joy and art for the Hawthorne bridge’s Centennial.

Featured Stories Tucker Teutsch 3.0 is here to create a spectacle. For the past 18 months, the 34-year-old local artist has served full-time as the creative director behind the PDX Bridge Festival, a new 16-day celebr ... More

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 Caitlin Giddings

BurgerQuest

Local blogger and restaurateur Nick Zukin ate 72 bistro burgers in three months to find the ultimate burger in Portland.

Featured Stories Photos By Cameron BrowneUntil recently, a burger made on your own backyard grill was better than anything you could get from a diner, drive-in or drive-thru. Only with the rise of the “bistro bu ... More

Wednesday, July 14, 2010 NICK ZUKIN

Straight To The Source

Outtakes from the new Food Lover’s Guide to Portland.

Featured Stories (Left) LINKED UP: Dan Wedin in his Zenner’s Sausage kingdom. (Top Right) Courtesy Dan Wedin.In the era of celebrity chefdom, it’s good to look beyond the table to see who’s raising t ... More

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 WW Editorial Staff

Magic Dust

A cult feed store fertilizes Portland’s urban farming obsession.

Featured Stories It was not what you expect in a party gift. Hundreds of guests showed up this spring for Plant Nerd Night, the hot-ticket event on the Portland gardening calendar. Some arrived hours early to camp out ... More

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Sarah E. Smith

The Band That Wouldn’t Die

Critics hate it, radio won’t play it, but thanks to its legion of rural and suburban fans, Floater lives on.

Featured Stories ROCKIN’ THE SUBURBS: Floater’s Rob Wynia, Pete Cornett and Dave Amador (left to right). IMAGE: Darryl JamesNot everything from Portland is considered cool. Floater, a hard-rock band that f ... More

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 CASEY JARMAN

Open Marriage

The Brody Theater laughs at Prop 8.

Featured Stories The queer revolution will not be televised. Due to successful appeals by supporters of Proposition 8, the California initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage, testimony from the ongoing federal trial ... More

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 Caitlin Giddings

The Family Bog

Forget Ocean Spray—an Oregon cranberry farm bets you’ll spend $8 for its juice.

Featured Stories What would you pay 25 cents a fluid ounce for? Oregon pinot noir? High-test gasoline? How about a mouthful of luminous, crimson-colored, Oregon-grown cranberry juice? Tim Vincent is betting his life s ... More

Wednesday, June 2, 2010 Deeda Schroeder