Bring on the ’Brellas

Rain defense even a Portlander can appreciate.

Featured Stories Maybe you haven’t noticed, Mr. and Mrs. Real-Portlanders-Don’t-Use-Umbrellas, but it’s raining...again. Which means I’m going to stand here for several minutes, staring at my u ... More

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 Michael O'connor

Moving Validation

A reformed non-driver gets schooled in spin class.

Featured Stories Sleet dots the windshield. My hands slide over the steering wheel, clammy with shame. I round a curve, precariously close to a snack shack. The vehicle shudders and groans. On the second bend, I turn ... More

Wednesday, January 2, 2008 CARIN MOONIN

Rock of Love

Rock camp’s best of the northwest teaches kids and instructors.

Featured Stories It’s mid-morning in inner Southeast Portland, and a small fleet of minivans and station wagons is splashing up water from dirty puddles beneath the Hawthorne Bridge. The vehicles stop to drop lo ... More

Wednesday, December 26, 2007 CASEY JARMAN

Lowered Expectations

Our guide to minimizing disappointment this New Year’s Eve.

Featured Stories Here’s the trouble with New Year’s Eve parties: They are, almost without fail, not as fun as you hope they will be. Whether they’re too corny, too rowdy or just too boring, you&rsquo ... More

Wednesday, December 19, 2007 BEN WATERHOUSE

Billet, Sweet Billet

Off the ice with your average Portland Winter Hawk in his adopted home.

Featured Stories It’s one thing to have a teenager in your house, but things can get really weird if you happen to be hosting a young, athletic foreigner with a certain amount of notoriety. Consider Randy Malin; ... More

Wednesday, December 19, 2007 Paul Gerald

Alter Egos

These ninjas, Klingons and Elizabethans mean business. Unmasking Portland’s persona-band movement.

Featured Stories It’s late October, the last days of East Burnside’s Outlaws Music Hall, and the club’s green room is full of people pulling on costumes, applying eyeliner and doing warm-up stretches ... More

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Brandon Seifert

Single Servings

Combat your Seasonal Depression with seriously cheap holiday cheer.

Featured Stories However the tragically hip twentysomething Portlander might identify his or her interior design aesthetic—shabby chic, modernist minimalist, midcentury ironic—those studio apartment walls ... More

Wednesday, December 5, 2007 SAUNDRA SORENSON

Mile Marker

A handful of local movers and shakers team up to turn an 82nd Avenue address into an artists’ paradise.

Featured Stories Germany’s arts and craft set had Bauhaus; Portland will have 82nd Avenue. Seriously. Right off 82nd Avenue and Northeast Oregon Street, next door to Hawker’s Locker (the type of shop where ... More

Wednesday, November 28, 2007 Mike Thelin

When in Rome

It’s Chad in Portland—but 2 million radio listeners already knew that.

Featured Stories “Chad in Portland” figures he’s taken care of “Mike in Wichitard,” who has descended into farm animal “smack” and keeps getting run by the “Pimp.” ... More

Wednesday, November 28, 2007 Paul Gerald

Cravings: Oatmeal Cookies

Taste-testing the best of the city’s oats-and-raisins set.

Featured Stories In the cookie community, it’s chocolate chip that seems to get all the attention—it’s Marcia to the oatmeal cookie’s Jan, casting a shadow over its less-popular sister. But the ... More

Wednesday, November 21, 2007 JOANNA MILLER