Suspended Animation

Laika launches Coraline, and its creators wonder: What now?

Featured Stories Check out WW’s take on the Portland International Film Festival here!Suzanne Twining is out of work. But her fortunes have less to do with Barack Obama’s stimulus plan than with whether Ph ... More

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 AARON MESH

Live Not-So-Nude Girls

In the Land of a Thousand strippers, burlesque revivalists have been second-class citizens. Until now.

Featured Stories “This is a love letter to my favorite kind of perverts,” announces Sadie LaGuerre before dropping to all fours and slithering between the tables on the floor of the tiny Hawthorne Theatre ... More

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 MATTHEW SINGER

Diamond Cutters

Portland’s small comics publishers face down a distributor’s belt-tightening.

Featured Stories On Friday, Jan. 16, the recession hit our comics industry. In comics, Marvel and D.C. may be the “Big Two,” but Diamond Comic Distributors Inc. is the Big One, the exclusive comic store di ... More

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 Brandon Seifert

Fertility Rites

Out with the old plays, in with the new at the fertile ground new works festival.

Featured Stories The conventional wisdom goes something like this: Portland isn’t much of a theater town. The many underfunded, myopic companies in the city turn out constant revivals of Shakespeare and Neil Sim ... More

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 BEN WATERHOUSE

The Year That Was

2008 was all about blind pilots, homeless orators, bravo winners, bad dancers, shirtless fans and some guy named Barack.

Featured Stories In a year when the presidential race and international economic meltdown hogged all the media headlines, it’s easy to forget just how fascinating 2008 in Portland was in its own right. So we&rsq ... More

Wednesday, December 31, 2008 WW Editorial Staff

The Worst Christmas Pageants Ever

Nazis. Pederasts. Aging. Death. Nazi pederasts. Richard Nixon. Happy holidays!

Featured Stories Every Christmas, the finest directors and actors in Hollywood pool their resources to purchase you an expensive yuletide bummer. This year, they’ve outdone themselves. The most relentlessly depr ... More

Wednesday, December 24, 2008 Aaron Mesh, Ben Waterhouse

Rebel With A Claus

Featured Stories “What do you want for Christmas?” Santa asks. He and Mrs. Claus are sitting on their throne with two antsy, blond, kindergarten-aged boys. “A Nintendo DS,” the bespectacled kid ... More

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 Matthew Graham

Party Like It’s 1929

Who cares if the second great depression is coming. It’s time to celebrate!

Featured Stories ILLUSTRATION BY MIA NOLTING The best part of New Year’s Eve is putting this year’s crap behind you and having something to look forward to. You know: resolutions, life changes, etcete ... More

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 Michael Kimber

Cat-upuncture

Ethan Smith becomes a pussy for his cat.

Featured Stories Love can force us to defy our instincts, betray our character and sacrifice our principles. Such love brought me to the waiting room of Dr. Nancy Curran’s Two Rivers Veterinary Clinic. The objec ... More

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 Ethan Smith

Cacophony

Santacon conquers Hillsboro. Hillsboro doesn’t notice.

Featured Stories They punked the media. They punked the cops. They punked themselves. The red tide of Santacon debauchers pouring into Washington County on Saturday—an event predicted everywhere from WW to NPR&r ... More

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 Matt Wong & Aaron Mesh