Headout The first lesson I learn at Village Ballroom’s weekly square dance is that punctuality matters: My friends and I arrive 20 minutes late, and we are immediately circled by gray-haired cowboy type More
Headout: Swing Your Partner
It’s hip to be square.
Headout The first lesson I learn at Village Ballroom’s weekly square dance is that punctuality matters: My friends and I arrive 20 minutes late, and we are immediately circled by gray-haired cowboy type More
Death Without Closure
Zero Dark Thirty dramatizes the search for Osama Bin Laden to chilling effect.
Movie Reviews & Stories For all the talk about torture Zero Dark Thirty has generated, you’d be forgiven for thinking director Kathryn Bigelow spends 157 minutes More
Rust and Bone
In which an orca bites off Marion Cotillard’s legs.
Movie Reviews & Stories Rust and Bone’s soundtrack features Bon Iver, “Love Shack” by the B-52s, and Katy Perry’s “Firework.” Such contrivances are rivaled only by the film’s implausible premise: A driven More
Mission: Impossible
As a disaster drama, The Impossible impresses. But its morals are swamped.
Movie Reviews & Stories It’s always tricky to criticize a film for what it fails to depict rather than for what it actually captures. But in The Impossible, the omission is so glaring that to disregard it would be to com More
Coming Soon to a Theater Near You
Upcoming shows we’re excited to see.
Performance The obligatory holiday productions have taken their final curtain calls, and Portland theaters can return to what they do best: distracting us from our city’s slobbery weather. The following p More
Streetcar Bistro and Taproom: Train in Vain
Bar Reviews In attempting to summon cool, Streetcar Bistro and Taproom (1101 NW Northrup St., 227-2988, streetcarbistro.com) might have looked a bit farther than our city’s much-loathed covered moving sidew More
More Top Movies of 2012: Three WW Writers Weigh In
Movies & Television The three movie editors of 2012 already weighed in with their top three films of their respective tenures. But because we can't resist closing out the year with another trio of lists, here are the top 10 films of 2012, according to three WW movie writers.
AP Kryza:10.... More
No Land of Milk and Honey
Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land wears its heart on its well-tailored sleeve.
Movie Reviews & Stories There are shots in Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land that could be mistaken for shots in 1991’s My Own Private Idaho: beautiful pastoral scenes, rolling country roads More
Gus
Portland’s greatest filmmaker and his controversial new movie.
Cover Story What would Portland look like without Gus Van Sant? The elk statue on Southwest Main Street would still be there, but would you see it the same way if Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix hadn’t hud More
Jim Carrey May Star in Film Set in Portland
Movies & Television Let’s call it Eternal Raindrop of the Looper Mind: Jim Carrey has been attached to star in a quirky romance set in Portland. The annual Black List of promising unproduced scripts includes The Portland Condition, penned by former Entourage writers Dan Cohn and Jeremy Miller.
“Set against the ... More
Top Articles from REBECCA JACOBSON
Body Awareness (Coho Productions)
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
Trek in the Park (Atomic Arts)
Set phasers to “mildly entertaining.” ’Couve Crawl
A night out in Portland’s northern neighbor.
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
Trek in the Park (Atomic Arts)
Set phasers to “mildly entertaining.” ’Couve Crawl
A night out in Portland’s northern neighbor.
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