SCOOP A ROSE IS A ROSE: As the in-house band booking manager for the Doug Fir Lounge—which opened for show-going biz in early 2005—Alicia Rose has had an immeasurable impact on Portland’s ...   More

SCOOP MARKET SHARE: Whole Foods’ long-running battle with the Federal Trade Commission over whether the upscale market mega-chain’s merger with Wild Oats violates federal antitrust laws has had ...   More

SCOOP YOU’D BETTER WATCH OUT: Is no neighborhood safe from jolly, boozehound elves? The Portland Cacophony Society announced in a mass email last week that Santacon, its annual Claus-garbed pub crawl, ...   More

SCOOP MILK MEN: Pansexually smoldering actor James Franco may not be gay (even if he is this month’s Out cover boy, and the first dude to kiss Sean Penn), but he was surrounded Friday by just about ev ...   More

SCOOP DID THAT JUST HAPPEN? Sunday’s 2008 Oregon Book Awards at the Portland Art Museum was a buttoned-up affair, with one spectacular exception. During the presentation of the Distinguished Writer Aw ...   More

SCOOP WHEN IRISH EYES ARE CRYING: Willy Vlautin’s having a hell of a year. Not only is the Richmond Fontaine frontman’s second novel, Northline, under development for a Courtney Hunt-directed fi ...   More

SCOOP Keep portland weird...and classy?: That seemed to be the theme at the Oct. 23 opening-night party for the Nines, the $137 million hotel atop of the Meier & Frank Building. Where else would you see th ...   More

SCOOP WATCH OUT: What happens when you screen the highly anticipated film adaptation of the comic-book classic Watchmen in its entirety for the first time ever in front of a test audience in Portland? &ldqu ...   More

SCOOP WORK IT: Origami paper ballroom dresses, urban fireman couture and neck tattoos all found their way inside the unfinished warehouse space of 14 Square’s front lobby at day one (out of five) of P ...   More

SCOOP QUE SERA CERA: George-Michael Bluth, a.k.a. Michael Cera, was spotted last Friday night at Northwest Portland’s most happening crêperie, Le Happy. Scoop has heard on wweek.com that the sta ...   More