Summer Guide 2012: Child’s Play

Remember Super Soakers? They’re way better as an adult.

Featured Stories Children’s games are wasted on the young. Kids are stupid and weak and uncoordinated, and they lack the pent-up aggression that can only come from enduring years of 1040s and prostate exams. Yes   More

 

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 RUTH BROWN

Summer Guide 2012: Pedal to the Pacific

Riding to the beach is easy, but it might make you hate cars.

Featured Stories They crashed through the rainforest like dinosaurs. A distant rumble, a whoosh, and more rumble, before the creatures were gone and I could again hear my bike tires roll softly along the edge of t   More

 

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Summer Guide 2012

Make your Portland summer an epic one.

Featured Stories It might hurt a little. A nasty sunburn may ooze and peel. You may not be able to get your swollen, blistered feet into a pair of shoes. A hangover may leave you in a sour fog until the next day   More

 

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 WW Staff

24-Hours of Modern Warfare 3

Six million Modern Warfare 3 fans can’t be wrong…can they?

Featured Stories About 24 hours ago, I started playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 online in the middle of the Willamette Week office. I have stopped for food, bathroom breaks and occasional unescapable professio   More

 

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 CASEY JARMAN

Rat Bastard

Stephan Pastis draws a funny newspaper comic. Weird, right?

Featured Stories Last week’s funny pages found Pearls Before Swine auteur Stephan Pastis, who draws himself into his strip as a slouchy chain-smoker with a goatee and a backwards ball cap, feuding with a 9-year-o   More

 

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 MARTIN CIZMAR

Author! Author!

Wordstock writers in their own words.

Featured Stories This Saturday and Sunday, the Oregon Convention Center will be overrun by some 150 novelists, journalists, poets and cartoonists for the 2011 Wordstock book fair. The big names on the marquee inclu   More

 

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 BEN WATERHOUSE

Best of Portland 2011: Then & Now

Featured Stories 1985 - Best Pizza Thrower Dave Hite is something of a hero among working-class eaters. Before the bespectacled young man from Spokane, best known as the dapper saxophone player for the Fabulous K-T   More

 

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 ASHLEY COLLMAN, NATASHA GEILING, REED JACKSON, EVAN SERNOFFSKY, BEN WATERHOUSE

Best of Portland 2011: Best Sights & Sounds

Featured Stories Best Multicultural Sports League The former British Empire can be criticized for a lot of things—plunder, slaughter, incest—but at sporting fields around the greater Portland area, you can also    More

 

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 WW Culture Staff

Best of Portland 2011: Best Places

Featured Stories Best Total Toolbox You hear it on the news, or you heard it from Michael Keaton in Gung Ho: America just doesn’t make things anymore. The cars and iPhones are all offshored or down-bordered, while   More

 

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 WW Culture Staff

Best of Portland 2011: Best Bites & Nights

Featured Stories Best Cheap Date  After the second wettest spring on record, the sun is finally making brief public appearances in Portland. And so Portlanders are tentatively emerging from their holes, tattoos   More

 

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 WW Culture Staff