News Portland International Raceway was predictably noisy last Saturday night. Rubber screeched as drivers burned off layers of tire; engines belched, purred and spat machine-gun noises. But amid the smoky ... More
Wired For Speed
Electric vehicles are quietly breaking into drag-race culture.
News Portland International Raceway was predictably noisy last Saturday night. Rubber screeched as drivers burned off layers of tire; engines belched, purred and spat machine-gun noises. But amid the smoky ... More
Nerds Gone Wild
There's a whole world of crossword-puzzler geeks out there, and they are having a better time than you are.
Movie Reviews & Stories Quick—what's a nine-letter word for torture? Hint: It's probably the squarest thing you can do in bed, it gets harder as the week goes on, and it draws almost as many Sunday worshipers as church ... More
Pieces Of A Man
The Devil and Daniel Johnston paints a complex portrait of a troubled artist.
Movie Reviews & Stories The music of Daniel Johnston isn't for everybody. That eerie, trembly, little-girl caterwaul, the archetypal lo-fi keyboard, the basement recordings dubbed over and over onto cheap cassette tapes...it ... More
WW's Longbaugh Film Festival
Presented By Comcast: 2006 Recap
Movie Reviews & Stories Amazing! They actually pulled it off. Despite some last-minute technical setbacks, an ambitious scope and a skeleton crew of volunteers, the staff of the Longbaugh Film Festival made it happen again, ... More
He's Got The Touch
The magical films of Ernst Lubitsch grace the screen once more.
Movie Reviews & Stories Reviewing movies is turning me into a prude. It's not that I have anything against sex, mind you, in public or otherwise. But after seeing Colin Farrell's amber-lit butt cheeks endlessly thrusting awa ... More
All Dolled Up
New York Doll looks at the redemption of a rock legend.
Movie Reviews & Stories If you met the 55-year-old Arthur Kane on the street, you'd never in a million years guess his nickname or how he spent his youth. An almost invisibly bland clerk at the Mormon Church's Family History ... More
Cheap Eats 2005
Food Reviews & Stories This 3-year-old Alberta hangout doubled its capacity when it added a gorgeous outdoor patio, with a fireplace at one end for cool spring and fall nights. Known for its scrumptious breakfast scrambles ($6-$8), the restaurant also turns out delicious, filling and healthy lunch and dinner fare, includi More
Cheap Eats 2005
Food Reviews & Stories The reincarnation of the madly popular Scholls Public House only fits the "cheap" mold if you share. But good luck trying not to. Even if you could finish one of the vast, scrumptious, crispy-thin-crust pies ($17 and up) single-handedly, you'd have to fight off everyone around you first. Toppings ar More
Cascade Festival Of African Films
Movie Reviews & Stories It's shamefully rare that anyone in the United States gets a chance to see an insider's view of life on the African continent. You can find plenty of films about Africa, but precious few made by peopl ... More
Geek Love
Forget Scorsese and De Niro. Here come Film Geek's Westby and Malkasian.
Featured Stories "There's no such thing as a big break," says Melik Malkasian. But if all goes as expected, he's about to be proven wrong—by his own movie.Malkasian stars in Film Geek, the latest of several feat ... More
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Sunshine Tavern is neither sunny nor a tavern. Discuss. The kindness of strangeness
Author/musician Willy Vlautin checks into Motel Life. Food Cart Review: Kim Jong Grillin’
The New Clinton Era
The Clinton Street Theater's new owner remains committed to making Portland a haven for independent cinema. Love 4 Sale
VD ain't cheap. The Kevin Bacon (OSCAR) Game
Sure, a serial killer won last year. But will Oscar smile on a pedophile? Geek Love
Forget Scorsese and De Niro. Here come Film Geek's Westby and Malkasian. Buttered Up
Clementine Bistro is all about entertaining the regulars—fancy dinners, not so much. An Unguided Tour
Chuck Palahniuk's book on Portland could have been written from inside a Gray Line bus
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