Blowout

MusicfestNW and PICA's Time-Based Art Festival collide for an epic weekend of art and rock. WW picks up the glittering pieces.

Featured Stories WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 310:56 pm, Roseland Theater: This Mogwai light show is physically painful. Even when I close my eyes I feel like I’m being abducted by really rude aliens. But the bright flashes ...   More

 

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 WW Editorial Staff

Slavoj Zizek. Violence

That obscure object of Violence.

Featured Stories Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek has been described as the Elvis of critical theory—an omnivorous mind unafraid of illuminating high-analytic thought using cultural detritus. He’s used f ...   More

 

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 WW Editorial Staff

T.B.Ah-ha!

Discovering the best of Pica’s 2008 TBA fest.

Featured Stories There was a time, not that long ago, when we looked toward the first week of September with nothing but dread. These days, of course, Labor Day brings more than just a fresh crop of cruel nicknames an ...   More

 

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 Brett Campbell, Mary Christmas, Kelly Clarke, Matt Graham, Matt Korfhage, Ben Waterhouse And Heather Wisner

Border Crossing

I went to the Oregon State Fair and all I got was this knock-off Mexican rodeo.

Featured Stories SALEM—“It’s a Taco Bell version of a Mexican rodeo,” says Matt Richards. For the past month or so Richards, a handlebar-mustached cattleman from Independence, has traveled our ...   More

 

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Byron Beck

Walk Art

Hot design is everywhere. Here’s 11 places to spot it.

Featured Stories Admit it: You’re a design whore. Your wedding registry was at Design Within Reach. Your mantra is “In Eames we trust.” When you watch TV or DVDs—even pornos—you’re ...   More

 

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 RICHARD SPEER

Breakin’ Balls

WW intern learns from “The Pearl” and “The Scorpion” that he’s got a weak stick.

Featured Stories Johnny “The Scorpion” Archer breaks an eight-ball rack like he is having savage, powerful sex. I break a rack like your baby sister. Earl “The Pearl” Strickland is a five-time ...   More

 

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Kevin Stark

Swill Merchant

Jacques Boyreau blurs the lines between bad movies and great drinking.

Featured Stories Jacques Boyreau pauses from talking. This is not something the 42-year-old film promoter does very often, and when he does, there’s a very good chance what he says next is going to be memorable. ...   More

 

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 AARON MESH

The Obamapreneur

Johnny Richey makes change with bootleg Barack t-shirts.

Featured Stories Until last spring, Johnny Richey had never voted in a presidential election. “I always say, ‘Mine ain’t gonna count no way,’” he explains. “Who am I going to vote f ...   More

 

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 AARON MESH

The Trophy Wife

Lucier is sleek, sexy and eager to please. But how’s her cookin’?

Featured Stories Bold. No matter what you think about Lucier—the eye-popping new restaurant that opened in late May on the west bank of the Willamette at RiverPlace—you’ve got to admit it’s bo ...   More

 

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 Heidi Yorkshire

BEST OF PORTLAND: By the People, For the People

Featured Stories This is America. And in America, dammit, we vote. For presidents, idols, dogs, city commissioners, you name it—we live and breathe and sweat beautiful, shimmering beads of democracy. And with W ...   More

 

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 BEN WATERHOUSE