News If you've driven along Southwest 72nd Avenue in Tigard sometime over the past nine months, chances are you've glimpsed a band of picketers marching dutifully through January chill and June heat. T ...   More

News * The queen of Portland's drag scene may be dethroned! Murmurs has learned that the board of directors of the Imperial Sovereign Rose Court (think Royal Rosarians in high heels) has received a pet ...   More

Letters to the Editor MEMORIAL TO HOME DEPOT?Some clarification is needed if your readers are to understand the issues surrounding the reuse of Memorial Coliseum [The Nose, WW, May 28, 2003].In the early 1990s, the City ...   More

Featured Stories MTV Movie AwardsAh, the party every 13-year-old girl wishes she could attend. Thursday night, the adolescent version of the Oscars showcased all the pop stars and twentysomething eye-candy that Ti ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS1) Incompetent bureaucrats and fuzzy mathematicians held a red-tape parade on news that Salem legislators are plotting to chop $3 million from the secretary of state's auditors--the bloodho ...   More

Special Section Count it down. You have only 82 days left to enjoy summer until Labor Day. That's not very much time to make the most out of what passes for the balmy season in this part of the world. Add on the ...   More

Special Section Two (Completely Different) Steps to Mint JULEPS WITHOUT TEARS Solving the world's most fiercly debated cocktail BY ZACH DUNDASThe mint julep is like the Talmud: Slightly different interpretations ...   More

Special Section Three Reasons to GO All the Way TO STEVENSON BY ZACH DUNDASBy any standard, the Columbia Gorge 'burg of Stevenson, Wash., is a Main Street, U.S.A., fantasyland. The view regularly returns atheist ...   More

Special Section Three Spots with A TICKET TO RIDE BY IAN MARSHALLGot a friend coming into town who wants to experience Oregon wilderness via mountain bike? Have you got the urge for some dirt in the West Hills? ...   More

Special Section Aisles of STYLE Summery souvenirs you can buy (and remake) on the fly. BY RACHEL BECKMANTruck stops have more to offer than just a place to pee and check your tire pressure. Wedged somewhere betwe ...   More