Find an Easter egg in a Willamette Week box and win a prize.
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Peep this: Easter is a bummer for grown-ups. It’s all ham and shoeshines, not chocolate bunnies and plastic grass.
And no adult egg hunts. Well, until now. We hid a dozen plastic eggs in blue Will
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Funny improvisational comedy game you probably not like.
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“Do not go to this performance,” Vladimir, an East Portland greengrocer, advises me. “You will not like the jokes.”
I’ve lived in Russia and heard jokes like the ones RUDN, a winning team
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Orange juice cartons, cherry-cola bottles and a wine jug
litter the tables in Arlo Leach’s attic music room. He’s neither a lush
nor a hoarder: He’s a jugger.
According to Leach,
there a
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The former Blazer holds forth on the Jersey sculptor.
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Art fans, this is truly a magnanimous moment in the
history of modern civilization. Not since Gutenberg first threw down the
word of the Big Man upstairs has the printed letter held quite such
e
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The Latin world’s answer to popular gringo entertainers.
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Who’s the Salvadoran Hulk Hogan?
With a group of eight Latino comedians from Portland and California getting our attention with a show called Atención Gringo, we got curious enough to ask.
So w
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Scouting reports for five honorary Harlem Globetrotters.
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What’s harder than beating the Harlem
Globetrotters? Becoming an honorary Harlem Globetrotter. In the
organization’s 86-year history, only eight nonplayers have been named to
the team, and o
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1. Norm Macdonald (1994-97)
He turned the Saturday Night Live
news desk into his own absurdist playground, brilliantly mocking not so
much the news as “Weekend Update” itself. Frank Stallone
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America is more tolerant than it used to be. Case in
point: Aesop Rock. These days, he packs clubs with his dense, cerebral
rhymes—at least when he’s not canceling shows because of broken ribs
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