SCOOP DEPT. OF SHAMELESS SPORTING SELF-PROMOTION: Congratulations, team Willamette Week! Sunday night under the bright lights at Farragut Park, WW beat defending champion the Slammer to win the 2010 Sunday ...   More

SCOOP GAGA ON WHEELS: “ I went for a bike ride today in Portland and was attacked by children in tutus who were presumably my fans, ” says the woman with the Crayola yellow curls topped with a n ...   More

SCOOP DOWN UNDERWORLD: Big names in the Aussie theater world were in town Saturday night for the premiere of the co-production of A Long Day’s Journey Into Night from Australia’s Sydney Theatre ...   More

SCOOP LET’S GET SMASHED: It kind of sounds like a joke to say that the Smashing Pumpkins are a late addition to WW’s MusicfestNW 2010 (Sept. 8-12)—we assure you that it is not. The Billy C ...   More

SCOOP GOOD NIGHT, DARK PRINCE: Satyricon, once the longest-running indie-rock nightclub on the West Coast, and one of Portland’s few all-ages venues, will close its doors for good this October. The bu ...   More

SCOOP BETTER LATE: It’s been a running joke for months that Portland Playhouse, the city’s hottest upstart theater company, has been happily selling subscriptions to its 2010-11 season despite n ...   More

SCOOP NOT FULL YET: What did local restaurateur Nick Zukin do after eating 72 burgers in three months? Dessert, of course. The food blogger and Kenny & Zuke’s co-owner downed 10 deep-fried hand pies i ...   More

SCOOP GIRL FIGHT: A night of old-fashioned all-female arm-wrestling fun almost turned to disaster Sunday, July 11, when a contestant’s arm was fractured during the opening stages of B-Side’s fou ...   More

SCOOP ONLINE CHIC: Behold, the “blogazine. ”That’s how former Oregonian scribe Karen Vitt is terming her new online project, The Neat Sheet (pdxneatsheet.com), a Portland-focused fashion s ...   More

SCOOP BALLOON BRIGADE: A PDX-based designer and aeronautical artist is helping MIT’s Grassroots Mapping project photograph the BP oil spill. Grassroots uses digital cameras attached to balloons to cap ...   More