Performance As with Shakespeare's other early history plays, Richard II is a minor drama. But then there's this King Richard fellow upon whom the play is completely dependent. He's cunning, power mad, a warri ... More
Richard 2, Portland 0
Among the crimes committed against Shakespeare's other Richard, add dramatic regicide.
Performance As with Shakespeare's other early history plays, Richard II is a minor drama. But then there's this King Richard fellow upon whom the play is completely dependent. He's cunning, power mad, a warri ... More
Bookies' Odds
News Usually, winning voter support for library measures is as easily as snapping one's fingers. But this year, initial public support for a proposed library levy has county leaders biting their nails. ... More
Arch Enemies
Another Portland neighborhood tells McDonald's to hold the fries.
News Over the last six months, George Kyler, 52, has become a regular at neighborhood meetings across Portland. A seemingly inoffensive man, Kyler is married, a father of two children and a steward at ... More
A Fine Bureau
News There's a certain hauteur perfuming the air at the city's Office of Planning and Development Review. "We control the building code," says everything from the receptionist's tone to the unreturned ... More
Hot Times at City Hell
News In his Inferno, Dante never created a circle for municipalities bedeviled by rotten financial times. If he had, however, Vera Katz and her fellow City Council members would surely be dancing on th ... More
Dog. Dead
News Shaq, the boxer whose possible theft was chronicled last fall in a Willamette Week cover story, is reportedly dead. At the time of the dog's disappearance, police focused their questioning on Kim ... More
Year of the Monkey
News Scientific institutions don't like being in the news for anything other than devising life-saving cures and unlocking the secrets of the physical universe.The Oregon Regional Primate Research Cent ... More
A Close Shave
News Earlier this month, in advance of Tom Metzger's return visit to Portland, local anti-racist activists publicly warned of the potential for white-power-related violence. They had no idea how close ... More
The Flickering Torch of Racism
News When it comes to racist rhetoric, Tom Metzger talks tough, but, in person, the pudgy, bald TV repairman from Southern California isn't exactly intimidating.Not so for Randall Krager. You'd never wan ... More
Clone, Clone on the Range
News Prophecy isn't Don Wolf's specialty. He's a staff scientist at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center who spends his time trying to clone a rhesus monkey. But two weeks ago, he sounded as tho ... More
Top Articles from Philip Dawdy
Bitter Pill
A Portland doc flips on big pharma and reveals its “dirty little secret.” Dog. Gone.
The strange case of the missing boxer, the accused celebs and the underground animal-rescue railroad. The ACORN that imploded
Squeezed between a union drive and a financial crisis, an activist group cracks. Secrets & Lies
How well do you really know Portland? The Flickering Torch of Racism
Losing Patients
A Portland surgeon's troubles raise questions
about who's watching the docs. A Close Shave
HYDRO HOGS
Which Portlanders use the most water? The Final Chapter
A Fine Mess at City Hall
A Portland doc flips on big pharma and reveals its “dirty little secret.” Dog. Gone.
The strange case of the missing boxer, the accused celebs and the underground animal-rescue railroad. The ACORN that imploded
Squeezed between a union drive and a financial crisis, an activist group cracks. Secrets & Lies
How well do you really know Portland? The Flickering Torch of Racism
Losing Patients
A Portland surgeon's troubles raise questions
about who's watching the docs. A Close Shave
HYDRO HOGS
Which Portlanders use the most water? The Final Chapter
A Fine Mess at City Hall
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