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

Talentless Show

Portlanders share their most embarrassing writings—and love it.

Featured Stories Sarah Hoopes does not look like a person who has harbored dark erotic fantasies about vampires. The 29-year-old database manager for Portland’s Big Brothers Big Sisters program is a bundle of ne ... More

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 AARON MESH

Say Anything

Four authors, four perspectives on the eve of the city’s biggest literary weekend, Wordstock.

Featured Stories The iconic rock-’n’-roll reference buried in the name of Portland’s biggest literary event, Wordstock, isn’t off base. The four-day event—created as a fundraiser for the ... More

Wednesday, November 7, 2007 WW Editorial Staff

Shifting Fortunes

Two fortune-tellers and a century of clairvoyance in Portland.

Featured Stories On Jan. 9, 1939, William C. Haight, a writer with the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers’ Project, climbed the stairs to the Orange Lantern Tea Room on the third floor of Port ... More

Wednesday, November 7, 2007 Adrian Chen