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

SCOOP PUDDLE-JUMPER: Oregonian columnist and best-selling author Chelsea Cain (Heartsick, Sweetheart) is off to London this week. On Friday, at the Grosvenor Hotel, Cain will join other crime novelists as ...   More

SCOOP TRUE GRIT: Usually, the lunacy stops once winner is announced at Portland’s annual Miss White Trash Pageant. This year it was just the beginning. Gresham’s Miss Josephine Lara—radia ...   More

SCOOP THAT’S A BITCH: Bitch, the worthy national magazine devoted to a “feminist response to pop culture” that relocated to Portland from San Francisco last year, is hurting. Bottom line: ...   More

SCOOP VAN SANT-OURAGE: Although WW couldn’t confirm this with the man himself, we’ve heard from a couple of reliable sources Portland’s own Gus Van Sant will make a cameo appearance someti ...   More

SCOOP FEEDING JOHN MALKOVICH: The quirky star of the upcoming Coen Brothers comedy Burn After Reading, John Malkovich, popped up at the new Pearl District hotspot 50 Plates last Tuesday. “ He came in ...   More

SCOOP SWEDE SCENE: Another day, another heap of love bestowed on PDX from someone who’s barely even been here. In an interview with Pitchforkmedia.com that ran last week, Swedish indie-pop starlet Ly ...   More

SCOOP SOCK IT TO HIM: Evidently Barack Obama does indeed rock our socks. Carrie Atkinson, the Portland-based proprietor of Sock It To Me Socks (sockittomesocks.com) has teamed up with Red Light Clothing Ex ...   More

SCOOP ROUX COUP: Dwayne Beliakoff—the owner of NoPo’s “Northwest-meets-Creole” fine dining establishment Roux—beat out Burgerville to snag one of downtown’s most sought- ...   More