News * Hot on the heels of landing teen hoops dream LeBron James with an eye-popping $90-million endorsement deal, Beaverton-based sneaker titan Nike invested a cool $1 million in the embryonic career ...   More

Books badlands by Doug Rennie (Creative Arts Books, 151 pages, $15.95)For lovers of the "flawed narrator" à la Denis Johnson, Doug Rennie's new book of short stories, Badlands, will come as a wel ...   More

Letters to the Editor WOMEN ARE NOT FOR SWAPPINGI read in Willamette Week that Barfly magazine is hosting a porn swap the first Sunday of every month at Lucky Inn [Night Avenger, May 21, 2003]. I was surprised and conf ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS1) Police reform advocates got a big boost Saturday when 1,300 Portlanders interrupted a sunny holiday weekend to protest the death of Kendra James, shot by a police officer May 4.2) Good w ...   More

Rogue of the Week Like most bills winding their way through the legislative sausage factory in Salem, House Bill 3093 didn't start out rancid. It was an innocuous measure aimed at updating statutes to reflect chang ...   More

News * A local grand jury has let Portland police officer Scott McCollister off the hook, but he's still got to deal with the feds. On Monday, the grand jury decided not to charge McCollister for killi ...   More

Books the bobby gold stories by Anthony Bourdain (Bloomsbury, 165 pages. $19.95) Bourdain reads Friday, May 23, at Powell's City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Before filleting fame w ...   More

Letters to the Editor WW PICKS PANNED Normally, when WW puts out its picks for an upcoming election, being the liberally minded Portland resident I am, I generally get confirmation that I am doing the right thing. But ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS1) First Amendment supporters held their noses and smiled after a federal judge ruled that even gay- and women-bashing evangelists such as Edward Gathright can't be ejected from public prop ...   More

Special Section Forget the trident Portlandia waves at the City of Roses; chances are good that there's a sizable enough coup to replace it with a bike, as it ought to be. Nothing says Portland more--not wine, no ...   More