Special Section In a November 1974 interview, early in his rookie year here in Portland, Bill Walton told WW he had a life beyond basketball and didn’t “deal too much with my image.” His first year ...   More

Special Section David Leiken has never been shy. Now 62, the owner of the Roseland Theater, president of Double Tee Concerts and founder of FastTix started booking shows in Portland two years before Willamette Week p ...   More

Special Section Before there was Ken’s Artisan and Apizza Scholls, before “cheese pizza” became “margherita” and buffalo mozzarella bubbled in wood-fired ovens, a hole-in-the-wall pie jo ...   More

Special Section Today, gay marriage is a defining political issue and one of the movement’s key figures is Thalia Zepatos, an elite political organizer who’s called Portland home for three decades. Zepato ...   More

Special Section When Matt McCormick first parked his gray Honda Civic under the marquee of the Fox Theatre, he had no intention of staying in Portland. Fifteen years later, the Fox is gone, but he’s still a par ...   More

Special Section Gay RightsTHEN: In its second-ever issue, Willamette Week ran a story headlined “Council evades—gay rights to ballot.” It describes the Portland City Council dodging a decision on ...   More

Special Section On a Friday afternoon last year, an event that not long ago would have been hailed as a catastrophe passed almost unnoticed. Pope Talbot, the local timber company that once employed thousands of work ...   More

Special Section Subscription to Willamette Week mailed to your doorstepThen: $8 a yearNow: $100 a yearPortland Opera ticketsThen: $5-$12Now: $20-$135OMSI admission (adult)Then: $1.50Now: $11+Timbers ticketsThen: $1 t ...   More

Special Section The ’80s were to Portland what the ’60s were to San Francisco, says Howie Bierbaum, the 51-year-old tour manager for Pink Martini, who moved to Portland from New Jersey in 1981. “It ...   More

Special Section Basketball seasons come and go. Hair grows even after you’re dead. WW looks back on some of the best hairdos in Blazer history. Illustrations by Lukas Ketner Bill Walton (’74–&rsq ...   More