The Ultimate Stoner Coffee Table

A consumer’s guide to keeping your high—and everything that goes with it—local.

Featured Stories IMAGE: Morgan Green-Hopkins1. Oil Rig Available at: Mellow Mood, 4119 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 235-7473, mellowmood.com ($1,700) Hash oil is the new chronic—it’s basically THC concentrate—and oil   More

 

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

Tales From the Weed Vault

Inside the city’s biggest pot stash: the Portland Police Bureau’s evidence warehouse.

Featured Stories The best pot stash in town is stored deep in the tangled concrete jungle of the Northwest Industrial District.   More

 

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 MITCH LILLIE

An oral history of the first 76 days of legalized marijuana in Vancouver, Wash.

Featured Stories “It’s not like the way you think. You’d think everyone would be out smoking and celebrating and having big parties in the street. It’s not like that at all.” —John, recreational mariju   More

 

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 WW Staff

Winter Guide 2013: Powder Up

Six ski sites down, one across.

Featured Stories Timberline The scene: Timberline (timberlinelodge.com) sits high on glaciated Mount Hood, offering stunning views and year-round skiing on its upper section. Summer is the busiest time here, as n   More

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 WW Staff

Winter Guide 2013: Winter Toolkit

Cold Comforts from Local Makers

Featured Stories IMAGE: Morgan Green-Hopkins1. Billy Goat soft-snow skis By ON3P, on3pskis.com. Hand-ground with bamboo core. $799 at Next Adventure, 426 SE Grand Ave., 233-0706, nextdventure.net. 2. Salvatore   More

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 WW Staff

Winter Guide 2013: Neu-Wave Boards

Tabletop games for the snowbound.

Featured Stories If you spent the last few decades skiing, you may have missed the analog-game renaissance. Led by efficient and humorless German visionaries like Reiner Knizia and Klaus Teuber, board games are    More

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 JORDAN GREEN

Winter Guide 2013: It’s Not a Portland Winter Until You’ve...

32 ways to distract yourself during the dark days to come.

Featured Stories Only the strong survive Stumptown winters with all their marbles in the bag. Even those who claim to love the rainy season know that the gray, low-hanging clouds always transform from familiar fri   More

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 CASEY JARMAN

Winter Guide 2013: Stone Cold

A WW correspondent learns to keep her beer off the curling rink.

Featured Stories The Evergreen Curling Club posts three rules by the rink. First, shake hands. Second, if you win, clean the ice. And third, winners buy the first round of drinks. That final rule pretty well e   More

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 REBECCA JACOBSON

Winter Guide 2013: Lift Off

How to ski without those pesky lifts.

Featured Stories No matter how black the diamond, no matter how radical the route, most skiers are total uphill pussies who, were it not for the marvels of technology, wouldn’t even be able to summit a bunny hil   More

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 AP KRYZA

Winter Guide 2013: Slippery Slope

A brandy-fueled test slide on the newfangled sleds.

Featured Stories As a young lad coming of age in my Fortress of Solitude on the steep slopes of Cooper Mountain, there was no thrill greater than snowfall. The streets and the hilly local vacant lot were instant   More

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 JOHN LOCANTHI