Movie Reviews & Stories Much Ado About Nothing is all about trickery. The comedy—one of Shakespeare’s best—centers on two strong-minded singles, Beatrice and Benedick, each determined never to love and never to mar More
A Superhero’s Shakespeare
Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing is a smart and chummy soiree.
Movie Reviews & Stories Much Ado About Nothing is all about trickery. The comedy—one of Shakespeare’s best—centers on two strong-minded singles, Beatrice and Benedick, each determined never to love and never to mar More
Risk/Reward Festival
A salad bar of boundary-pushing performance.
Performance Think of the Risk/Reward Festival as speed dating for contemporary performance. In one night, you’re introduced to six performers. Each has a different way of moving, of grooving, of talking, More
Summer Guide 2013: One Toe Over the Line
A WW staffer breaks the law and loses her balance.
Featured Stories The park rangers must have been lying in wait. Out of the corner of my eye, I see them approaching. The man is tall with a shaved head and small spectacles. With him is a dark-haired woman. More
Brew Views: The Sapphires
Soul sisters.
Brew Views According to crusty Irish boozer Dave—played with impeccable comic charm by Chris O’Dowd, Kristen Wiig’s cop boyfriend in Bridesmaids—country-western and soul music are both rooted in loss. More
Somewhere In Time (Portland Center Stage)
Let’s do the time warp again.
Performance Between writer’s block and a brain tumor, Richard Collier’s head is in bad shape. He has fled to a hotel in Michigan, where he stumbles on a portrait of a breathtaking starlet from some 60 y More
The Oregon Public House: Pour of Spirit
Bar Reviews The Oregon Public House (700 NE Dekum St., 828-0884, oregonpublichouse.com) certainly has a catchy slogan: “Have a pint, save the world.” The Woodlawn neighborhood watering hole, whose opening More
Drank: Apple Beer (Buckman Botanical Brewery)
Drank The boundaries between beer and cider are blurring. Cidermakers now add hops to their libations; brewers pour apple juice into their beer (or, in the case of Redd’s Apple Ale, made by MillerCoors, � More
The Kings of Summer
I want to be forever young.
Movie Reviews & Stories As cops break up a high-school kegger, and a burly teenager frantically pumps a few extra shots of beer into his maw, two 14-year-old boys stumble into a forest. Intending only to evade police, More
A Bright New Boise (Third Rail Repertory)
The end times at the strip mall.
Performance If Tolstoy was right—that in all great literature, a man either goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town—there’s hardly a clearer example of the latter than A Bright New Boise. Samuel More
Brew Views: An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Love, deconstructed.
Brew Views Like a lovesick diary entry, Terence Nance’s feature debut, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, loops from confession to self-doubt to blind infatuation. The film is a blend of documentary and More
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Gus
Portland’s greatest filmmaker and his controversial new movie. Winter Guide 2013: Stone Cold
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’Couve Crawl
A night out in Portland’s northern neighbor. Trek in the Park (Atomic Arts)
Set phasers to “mildly entertaining.”
Our bodies, our very complicated selves. Keys To Survival
A St. Paddy’s Day option if you’re plowed at a bar and want to go home with your car. Shelved
The story of Powell’s layoffs, according to affected workers. House United
What a worker-owned restaurant is doing about the housing crisis. Gigantic Brewing: Giant’s Lair
Gus
Portland’s greatest filmmaker and his controversial new movie. Winter Guide 2013: Stone Cold
A WW correspondent learns to keep her beer off the curling rink. Cheap Eats 2011: Pupuseria El Buen Gusto
’Couve Crawl
A night out in Portland’s northern neighbor. Trek in the Park (Atomic Arts)
Set phasers to “mildly entertaining.”
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