Music Portland has its fair share of anthems. I'm thinking of "Portland Water" by Michael Hurley, "Rose Parade" by Elliott Smith, "Rose City" by Viva Voce, the Decemberists' "On the Bus Mall," that little Loretta Lynn and Jack White number. See, plenty of them. Enough to make a navel-gazing compilation, even (hmmm, file that one away for later, Casey). But I can always use another one.

This civi...   More

News Gerald Wallace is a quiet guy. So it was something to note when, in the closing seconds of the first half of the Trail Blazers’ game against Sacramento on Dec. 27, he dumped his exhausted, sweat   More

Music Stories In 2006, there was no brighter shining light in Portland’s music scene than Liv Warfield. The R&B singer could bait audiences by laying smoky nu-soul vocal melodies over her band’s underst   More

Bar Reviews The first time I tried to visit Moscow Bar (16015 SE Stark St.), I got as far as the front door   More

Music The purpose of New Year's Eve isn't really to see great bands. The purpose of New Year's Eve is to get completely trashed and hang out with your friends and make promises you're never going to keep. But Portland keeps throwing great shows our way, so we went to a few and kept diaries of our (admittedly fuzzy) nights on the town. We didn't get to every club in town (Doug Fir, Mississippi Studios an...   More

News Maybe I should really call this the "Birdman Edition," seeing as how, no matter how minor a role that Denver big man plays with the Nugs, I tend to follow his exploits closely. When I was eating some meatballs over in the media room, a few little kids were chomping down with their mom—guessing she's an NBA mom, but I that's not really my area of expertise—and when the Nuggets ran through the b...   More

Music In this week's WW, I listed my top 15 favorite local albums of the year. It was hard. This was a great year for Portland music, and a handful of records that didn't make my list keep haunting me. I have a tendency to root for the underdog, so it might not be a surprise readers that many of the albums on my list were from lesser-known or under-the-radar local bands. And while I wouldn't chan...   More

Music Stories Music Editor Casey Jarman’s top 15 local albums of the year. This was the year Portland came face-to-face with its blossoming, narrowly defined international reputation for “keeping it weir   More

Album Reviews [MINIMAL ELECTRO-FUNK] When you get two musicians as talented as keyboardist Ben Darwish (Commotion, Ben Darwish Trio) and drummer Drew   More

Bar Reviews For those of us generally stuck commuting between Portland’s inner East and West sides, a trip through the woods of Southwest Portland to the Sylvan Steakhouse and Saloon (5515 SW Canyon Court,    More