Featured Stories The thing with kids is, everything you do affects who they are; it’s like the butterfly effect, we’re told. If you give them a lollipop as opposed to some candy corn, it’ll affect whether th More
Gift Guide 2012: The Unformed
Featured Stories The thing with kids is, everything you do affects who they are; it’s like the butterfly effect, we’re told. If you give them a lollipop as opposed to some candy corn, it’ll affect whether th More
Plastic Tiger
Life of Pi’s saturated spectacle clamps its jaws, but the story lacks teeth.
Movie Reviews & Stories Ignore the tiger for a moment. Ang Lee’s Life of Pi is a very simple story with a grandiose backdrop. For much of the film, we’re alone on a lifeboat, in the middle of the Pacific, with a boy More
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Portland Center Stage)
Staying warm with Shakespeare.
Performance November and December seem, at first, an odd time to stage A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It’s not just the play’s title that contributes to its air of endless summer: Shakespeare stocked his fe More
Headout: Bottle Brush
It’s the perfect time to unwind with a bottle of red and some paint.
Headout Thanksgiving is already an occasion of tension, overindulgence and inevitable mishap—my favorite holiday memory involves washing gravy off the ceiling and out of my hair. And who says the hedo More
Animatronic Abe
Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is a live-action history lesson.
Movie Reviews & Stories Lincoln opens with a shot of Abraham’s very large, very statuesque head. As the camera pans to the front, the effect is startling. Though the 16th president has been put to film many times bef More
Siren Nation Film Festival
The personal is political is cinematic.
Movie Reviews & Stories As one of three women in the Willamette Week newsroom, I need no reminder of the embarrassing underrepresentation of women in the media. Documentaries like... More
Smashed
Beer me! Wait, maybe don’t.
Movie Reviews & Stories Though there’s no dearth of films about alcoholism and recovery, Smashed reeled me back not to Barfly or Days of Wine and Roses, but to Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry’s 1947 modernist novel. L More
Sun$hine (Tahni Holt)
A cardboard world, shiny and sequined.
Dance A towering wall of used cardboard boxes stretches diagonally across the stage, clear packing tape glinting in the light. Robert Tyree enters, tall and long-limbed and dressed head to toe in sequ More
Cultured Caveman
Food Cart Reviews Our club-wielding ancestors would have a rough time making chicken tenders the Cultured Caveman way. Considering Paleolithic hominids couldn’t reliably control fire, they’d have to hand- More
Getting Hitched
Cinema 21 celebrates the Master of Suspense.
Movie Reviews & Stories Like denim or Dr. Seuss, Alfred Hitchcock never goes out of style. But the director is particularly hot right now: Anthony... More
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Gus
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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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