Cover Story On a warm morning last June, Mayor Sam Adams stood in front of a crowd of computer geeks at the Eliot Center in downtown Portland...   More

Drank  In 1965, a young upstart arrived in Oregon “with 3,000 grape cuttings and a theory.” As the story goes...   More

Arts & Books Andy Baio is one of Portland's most influential geeks. The former Chief Technology Officer of Kickstarter, he's been writing his hugely influential blog waxy.org for a decade and done a bunch of other stuff you can read about on his Wikipedia page.This morning, Baio—along with B...   More

Food & Drink Our weekly glimpse into the future of Portland's restaurant and bar scene...Das Beer, an upcoming online beer store, has applied for a license to offer on-site customer pick-up at 211 SE Madison two days a week.Bill Hayden has applied for a full license to Pub @ The Yard, a bar at the L...   More

News If you haven't voted yet, you have until 8 pm tonight. But because you were too lazy to mail a letter, now you now have to go to a drop box to get your ballot in.
For some reason, the State of Oregon only maintains this really clunky map of ballot drop locations. The Bus Project has put together    More

News Reader David Schaerer writes:

Last week’s feature on Portraits of the Willamette left out the most avid group of river users – spring chinook fisherman. On any given day in April and May there are hundreds of “springer” fishermen on the Willamette angling for the most prized salmon i...   More

News Continuing Willamette Week's "Willamette week," we've put together collection of vintage images of the river—including an Oregonian article from 1904 claiming "Only photo ever taken of a mermaid." Anybody who complains that the O has gone downhill may want to check that out.

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Drank Previously only available on draft in the odd bar, Anthem Cider is now being bottled and sold under its own slickly designed label. The inaugural release of the new line from Salem cidery Wander   More

Food & Drink The number of really silly moustaches in Portland increased ten-fold last week as the Specialty Coffee Association of America's annual "Event" and the U.S. Barista Championships came to town.  
While sweaty salespeople and momtrepreneurs flogged labeling equipment and smoothie mixes at the SCAA expo, the cool kids were in ...   More

Features Kickstart my Heart is a semi-regular blog series on Portland Kickstarter projects we don't hate.
Since 2005, webcomic The Adventures of Dr. McNinja has b...   More