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

SCOOP BIG BABY: PDX’s CD Baby, one of the largest sellers of independent music on the Web, was purchased last week by the company behind New Jersey-based CD and DVD manufacturer Disc Makers. “I ...   More

SCOOP • ESKIMO MELTS: No. Absolutely not. We can’t let this happen. One of Portland’s favorite band of indie wunderkinds, Eskimo & Sons, is going on indefinite hiatus after playing Musicfes ...   More

SCOOP TWO-WHEEL REEL: Portlanders Carl and Sharon Jameson, creators of The Bicyclist, an online sitcom inspired by Stumptown bike culture that’s filmed mainly in PDX, are taking their show from cybers ...   More