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

Where Ghosts Wouldn’t Be Caught Dead

Braving the B.S. of portland’s “Beyond Bizarre” Tour.

Featured Stories Fox Mulder would be pissed. I sure was. My girlfriend and I had paid $29 each to hunt aliens, ghosts and other creatures that go bump in the night. Instead, I was chewing the right testicle of a choco ... More

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Michael O'connor

Fast, Free And In Control

Two websites are changing the way Portlanders read, write and publish.

Featured Stories It started with an ad on Craiglist.com: “We are seeking writers to create new and exciting short stories....To push ourselves within the realm of fiction.” A year later, those who answered ... More

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 Paige Richmond

The Art of Fake War

Casey Jarman battles the ultimate foe, a Halo lead Developer, and Dies. A lot.

Featured Stories Not to brag, but I’ve done a little fragging in my day. No, I’m not talking about getting lucky with the ladies (though I’ve found my video-game skills are an aphrodisiac): “F ... More

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 CASEY JARMAN

Game On

Three decades old, Atari 2600 is back, and it wants to play you.

Featured Stories It’s a busy Monday night in smoky hipster lounge Beulahland. Conversation ripples through the cavernous bar, and eyes are drawn to a projection screen in the main room. The screen is a psychede ... More

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

SPA NA NA

How far are YOU willing to go to relax?

Featured Stories Damn, the spa industry is huge. As in, $13 billion annually in North America alone. The problem is, a person can only get so many hot-stone massages and third-eye oil drips before feeling the urge to ... More

Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Laura Shinn

Drawn Together

Local comics sketch out what makes portland an illustrated mecca.

Featured Stories When the wildly popular writer Brian Michael Bendis (Powers , Alias , Ultimate Spider-Man ) said in an interview with slushfactory.com that he lives “in Portland, with 85 percent of the comic-bo ... More

Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Ben Waterhouse And Casey Jarman

Ted Rall

America’s sharpest pen on G.W., saying sorry and why he’s not willing to act like a pussy just yet.

Featured Stories Syndicated political cartoonist Ted Rall makes right-wingers scoff and party-line liberals squirm. In 2001, his Terror Widows strip suggested that 9/11 widows who went public were more interested in ... More

Wednesday, September 26, 2007 CASEY JARMAN