Mad Scientists, Unite!

The city’s inventors and hobbyists find a new headquarters in Beaverton.

Featured Stories I found myself wondering if I could fit a cannon in the back of my car without anyone noticing. After all, it was a nine-chamber T-shirt-shooting robot designed to launch stuff at sporting events crow ... More

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Ryan Fleming

Smoke Out

Featured Stories SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Smoking causes lung cancer, emphysema, shriveled testes and alien babies. With the implementation of Oregon’s Smokefree Workplace Law in January, it also leads t ... More

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Barefoot Nation

Wanna run faster and stronger? Kick off your shoes, say some.

Featured Stories I can’t stop laughing. The salesman at REI looks at me skeptically, as if he and everyone he knows already own shoes that make them look like they have Muppet feet. But come on. These are ridicu ... More

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Adrienne So

Who Needs A Designated Driver?

WW’s Guide to Public Transit Pub Crawls.

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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 WW Editorial Staff

Best New Band 2009

Portland’s music scene insiders pick their favorite breakthrough acts of the past year.

Featured Stories Just when we thought we had it all figured out. If you had come to WW’s music staff any time in the past six months or so and asked us who 2009’s Best New Band poll winner would be, we wou ... More

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 WW MUSIC STAFF

Stamps Of Approval

As we get ready to lick Homer Simpson’s backside, we learn about the Portlanders his creator made famous.

Featured Stories This Thursday, May 7, The Simpsons will achieve what I Love Lucy and Lassie never did. The U.S. Postal Service will release a series of stamps this week to make the 20-year-old Simpsons the only TV sh ... More

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 Shawn O'bryant

Panic!

Forget Swine Flu—this is why you should be scared.

Featured Stories IMAGE: Hawk KrallNot since the Spanish influenza plague of 1918 have so many people been scared of a little sniffle. Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cranked up the pandemic alert ... More

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 Adrienne So, Heather Morse

Going Stag

Phil Elverum spends a week living in the White Stag building and emerges to tell the tale—on record.

Featured Stories It’s 5 pm at the White Stag building, and Phil Elverum wants to show me his bedroom. “I think it’s just up this flight of stairs,” he says, the pit-a-pat of his flip-flops echo ... More

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 MICHAEL MANNHEIMER

Boarded

One day, three sports and 10,500 feet in elevation change.

Featured Stories What the hell am I doing here? This morning I was on Mount Hood; this afternoon, underneath the Burnside Bridge. And now? I’m staring out at the Pacific Ocean, smelling of salt. And my knee is b ... More

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Shawn O'bryant

Battle Royale (With Cheese)

Dan Halsted challenges the Alamo Drafthouse. This means Trailer War.

Featured Stories Like any good movie hero, Dan Halsted doesn’t mind being the underdog. The 33-year-old director of the Grindhouse Film Festival is Portland’s premier aficionado of disreputable drive-in fl ... More

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 AARON MESH