Food & Drink As revealed in WW's 2011 Restaurant Guide (which hit streets today! Go. Read.), our newly minted Restaurant of the Year is Killingsworth BBQ... More
VIDEO: Podnah's Pit
Inside the kitchen of WW's Restaurant of the Year
Food & Drink As revealed in WW's 2011 Restaurant Guide (which hit streets today! Go. Read.), our newly minted Restaurant of the Year is Killingsworth BBQ... More
VIDEO: Natural Selection
Inside the kitchen of WW's Restaurant of the Year runner-up
Food & Drink While WW's 2011 Restaurant of the Year is a meat-lover's mecca, our runner-up, Natural Selection, is 100% flesh free... More
Pop Art
The baroque Coke of Soda Pagoda.
Food Reviews & Stories Richard Anders places a yellow, 8-ounce soda can labeled “Bird’s Nest” on the table in front of me. “It’s made with white fungus and bird spit,” he says. The beverage is cloudy and has t More
Q&A: Jim Lommasson
The Portland photographer tells the story of Oregon’s Iraqi refugees.
Visual Arts Portland photographer Jim Lommasson is a storyteller. He has two documentary books under his belt, Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacrifice, and the Will to Survive in American Boxing Gyms and Oaks Park Pentim More
Cut of the Day: Strength, "Overheat (Deelay Ceelay Remix)"
Music As I listen to Deelay Ceelay's remix of "Overheat," a song by fellow Portland band Strength, I close my eyes and try to imagine what kind of videos the duo would craft to play alongside of it in a performance. I'm seeing fluidly moving colors, graceful modern dancers and a smoky silhouette of a saxophone player (think less upbeat disco-dance; more sexy underground-trance).
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Textual Taboos
Celebrate Banned Books Week with some censored literature. Like Where's Waldo?
Arts & Books Banned Books Week (Sept. 24-Oct. 1) is a nationwide celebration that highlights banned or challenged books and educates readers of their First Amendment rights. Marking its 30th anniversary this year, the ACLU of Oregon is running several events in Portland, including a More
VIDEO: Portland Taxidermy
Mounting a mouse with taxidermist Debee Smith
Arts & Books In light of the story on Portland's growing taxidermy scene in WW, The Right Stuffing, we sent A&C intern Emilee Booher to film exactly what goes into mounting a dead animal.WARNING: This video shows a dead mouse being cut open and turned inside out. If that kind of thing upsets you, don't watch.
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Them's Fightin' Words
Portland writers talk smack before Literary Death Match.
Arts & Books Literary Death Match is an author reading that packs a punch. The goal is simple: to join writing and comedy in literary matrimony over the course of one raucous evening. Co-created by Todd Zuniga, founding editor of Opium Magazine, the reading series has spread to 37 cities... More
Top Articles from EMILEE BOOHER
Exploding Hearts 4Ever
10 years ago, a car crash wiped out Portland’s biggest punk band. Finally, the sole survivor tells all. Cavalia
Creepy billboards aside, the show’s a wild ride. Honey Badger Don’t Care
Ew, this book is nasty. Randall don’t give a shit. Book Review: Glaciers
Memories, like corner thrift-store finds. Pop Art
The baroque Coke of Soda Pagoda. How Georgia Became O’Keeffe
Not to mention how Karen became Karbo. Headout: Waltz No. 02
The Next Waltz finds Portlanders re-creating The Band's last gig. Album Review: Black Prairie
A Tear in the Eye Is a Wound in the Heart (Sugar Hill) Album Review: Horse Feathers
Cynic’s New Year (Kill Rock Stars) Q&A: Jim Lommasson
The Portland photographer tells the story of Oregon’s Iraqi refugees.
10 years ago, a car crash wiped out Portland’s biggest punk band. Finally, the sole survivor tells all. Cavalia
Creepy billboards aside, the show’s a wild ride. Honey Badger Don’t Care
Ew, this book is nasty. Randall don’t give a shit. Book Review: Glaciers
Memories, like corner thrift-store finds. Pop Art
The baroque Coke of Soda Pagoda. How Georgia Became O’Keeffe
Not to mention how Karen became Karbo. Headout: Waltz No. 02
The Next Waltz finds Portlanders re-creating The Band's last gig. Album Review: Black Prairie
A Tear in the Eye Is a Wound in the Heart (Sugar Hill) Album Review: Horse Feathers
Cynic’s New Year (Kill Rock Stars) Q&A: Jim Lommasson
The Portland photographer tells the story of Oregon’s Iraqi refugees.
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