SCOOP MAYBE HE’LL PLAY FOR THE TIMBERS? NAH: English soccer star Wayne Rooney visited Portland last weekend to work with Nike staff at the shoe company’s headquarters. Which meant the notorious ...   More

SCOOP FOAM, FOR THE WIN: Portland’s dominance of the caffeinated arts continues with news that Sterling Coffee microroaster and Coffeehouse Northwest co-owner Adam McGovern won the New World Latte Art ...   More

SCOOP R.I.P.: Raul Ugalde, 30, frontman of Portland band Caguama, died Friday of undisclosed causes. Caguama’s music, a blend of cumbia and rock and roll, was unique among local bands. The group seeme ...   More

SCOOP OUT OF THE PAN, INTO THE FIRE: As old-school music fans come out of the woodwork to celebrate the final weeks of Satyricon, the bad news keeps on coming. Berbati’s Pan, a fixture in the Portland ...   More

SCOOP CULTURE CLUB: Portlanders have a club for everything, including, it seems, a club for people with ideas. Year-old think tank Research Club hosts events and brunches where creative people—from ar ...   More

SCOOP OPEN AND SHUT: Concordia gastropub Fats and MLK wine bar Alu both closed last week; the former will become a second location of Little Big Burger, Micah Camden’s new Pearl District burger joint. ...   More

SCOOP CONFORMING TO STEREOTYPE: As if musical adaptation of Sunset Boulevard weren’t enough to attract the business of a certain sort of gay white man, Portland Center Stage is encouraging patrons (me ...   More

SCOOP BOW-WOWED: Pop band OK Go is already known for its intricate, delightful music videos, but its latest musical stunt has an Oregon link. The video for “White Knuckles,” which premiered Mond ...   More

SCOOP IT’S A STRANGE WORLD: Among the tidbits to emerge from a miniature press junket on the set of Portlandia, the improvisational sketch comedy starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein: When the ...   More

SCOOP GOODBYE TO YOU: As previously reported by WW, legendary Portland rock club Satyricon will close its doors forever this Halloween. We were told then that the venue planned some big last-gasp shows, and ...   More