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

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

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

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

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

Movie Reviews & Stories The photographer Gregory Crewdson has been described as “Norman Rockwell meets Norman Bates.” Like Rockwell, Crewdson captures small and ordinary    More

Performance The playwright George Bernard Shaw did not craft subtle plots. That’s clear from the first minutes of his anti-militarism comedy Arms and the Man, in which Bluntschli, a Swiss mercenary, crash   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Legislator-turned-filmmaker David Edwards wants to make one thing very clear: Nightscape, his debut feature, is not political commentary. It’s a fair disclaimer. The supernatural horror film, wh   More

Performance When the title character in King Hedley II talks about the man he murdered—a crime for which he just served seven years in prison—he summons a sharp allusion. “I got the atomic bomb as far a   More

Movies & Television This weekend, Homer Simpson will eat his first Voodoo Doughnut. And the deliveryman? Fred Armisen.
Perhaps it was only a matter of time—after all, The Simpsons’ creator, Matt Groening, is a Portland native. Sunday’s episode, “The Day the Earth Stood Cool,” features the voices of Portlandia’s Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, as well as comedian Patton Oswalt.    More