Night Avenger It happens every year, and it's worse than doing taxes. Just thinking of it causes you to wet the bed. You know the horror of which we speak: holiday shopping. Thing is, this draining experience needn ...   More

Night Avenger On a recent Friday evening, déjà vu sets in. It's not because Ben Kweller is on stage doing his best Bob Dylan for the fans. It's where Kweller is doing his thing that feels so familiar. ...   More

Night Avenger As a Phish fan for seven years, I had seen 30 of the jam band's concerts in 10 states and two countries. So, when the band announced it would be breaking up and staging the curtain call at the mid-Aug ...   More

Hitched If you're looking for love in Portland, you might meet someone in a bar while watching the 2001 World Series, like Tina and Aaron Wermerskirchen, or while responding to your first online personal ad, ...   More

Hitched When he fielded a call from a woman named Laila just before Labor Day of 2002, Trent Tribou's initial response was more telemarketer than smooth operator. Trent, now 28, assumed, wrongly, that this La ...   More

Hitched For someone who works in an industry that identifies and determines the validity of suspicious situations, Linda King was blindsided when it came to Noi Phimmasone. If Linda--who works in the world of ...   More

Hitched Back when she was a college student in southern Texas, Marlleen Martinez knew better than to give her phone number to strange men. Good thing, because the petite English major spent a lot of time with ...   More

Hitched Here's the scene on March 5, 2004: Jeff Fisher, a self-employed graphic designer, was in a limo, on his way to the Cedar Rapids airport after a conference in Waterloo, Iowa. The sixth-generation Orego ...   More

Night Avenger With the overwhelming success of American Idol, a contest ripping off the Fox television program was inevitable.On a recent night at the Old Town meat market McFadden's, 10 singers--armed with a music ...   More

Night Avenger It's nighttime, Easter Sunday. Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson--in their best Sonny and Cher impersonations--invade network television. You must get out of the house. But where to go on such a religio ...   More