News You wouldn't guess that Helena's Place sells a lot of French cognac. The low-slung bar and restaurant sits on a dust-blasted industrial stretch of Northeast Columbia Boulevard, flanked by heavy-equipm ... More
The Hennessy Factor
Can brand-name cognac breed legal trouble?
News You wouldn't guess that Helena's Place sells a lot of French cognac. The low-slung bar and restaurant sits on a dust-blasted industrial stretch of Northeast Columbia Boulevard, flanked by heavy-equipm ... More
FCC Rebels to Hit Portland
Activists rally against Big Media.
News TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATION. Hard to come up with a more deadly sounding policy head-crusher--just the sort of wonky stuff "average" Americans aren't supposed to give a damn about.But last spring, w ... More
Welcome to Rose Festival! (Don't Trip.)
News The Rose Festival means many things to many people. The soggy, greasy waft of giant elephant ears.Canadian sailors clutching Shrek dolls."Tourists" from Wood Village.And then, of course, there's the s ... More
The Straight Story
Dark days in Breederland.
Special Section This is a tough time for the Heterosexual. He or she lives in a world of uncertainty, the validity of his or her values and relationships in question. If the Heterosexual finds him/herself swaddled in ... More
Free for All.
How a brainy Brit and an army of idealists are leading Portland to Internet Nirvana.
News In Boston, they dressed up like Indians and chucked tea into the harbor.The French stormed a prison.In Portland, they... bolted a box to a pole on top of a college dorm?The Box - thin, beige and about ... More
Doing the PSU Shake
News In the small world of Portland State University, it was as if Alan Greenspan and Colin Powell had quit on the same day. On May 17, PSU announced the resignations of vice president Jay Kenton, the fina ... More
Great Jane
An urban-planning goddess comes to Portland.
News Is Jane Jacobs urban planning's Julia Child? Jane Goodall? Or, as The Village Voice once suggested, its Mother Teresa?Those inexact accolades all struggle to sum up Jacobs' importance. Her classic 196 ... More
Foes Fear Tram Flimflam
Critics claim the city is cooking the books to build the controversial OHSU sky-tram.
News Call it an unwritten law of urban planning: The bolder the project, the more agonizing the process. It doesn't get much bolder than the proposed aerial tram linking Oregon Health & Science Univers ... More
tyr: myth, culture, tradition
Books Modernity is a drag. Not an outlandish conclusion for anyone to reach--especially anyone who reads the daily news. The writers of Tyr, a thick journal of neo-pagan crypto-scholarship now releasing its ... More
GEEK FORCE
As viruses overrun the Internet, a few Portland counter hackers stand and fight.
News It started on a single computer, in the dead of a Saturday night in January. A tiny little piece of code, not much longer than a couple of newspaper sentences, invaded a Microsoft database program. Th ... More
Top Articles from Zach Dundas
HOBBITS GONE WRONG
A few Oregonians' love for Lord of the Rings landed them in a strange saga of their own. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Portland writer Donald Miller is selling books, wowing fans-and fighting to shake up Christianity as we know it. Bean Town
Thanks to a gang of coffee fanatics, Portland is the center of a new microbrew revolution. Portland's New New Economy
High unemployment. More businesses. Lower income. More newcomers. It ain't business as usual. Garden of Weedin'
Oregon's medical marijuana growers want to win respect, help the sick...and grow the kindest bud on the planet. ATTACK OF THE $3 TOMATO
How Portland's snooty tastes are saving Oregon farms, luring kids back to the land and even-gasp!-teaching Republicans and Democrats to get along. Return of the Piper
CAN PORTLAND'S MOST FAMOUS BAD BOY SAVE PRO WRESTLING FROM THE EVIL EMPIRE? THE REBEL ALLIANCE
An unlikely army of hacker hippies, geek visionaries, idealistic teachers and corporate giants is making Portland ground zero of a digital revolution. SPACE INVADER
Phantom Dialer, computer hacker The Portland Adult Soapbox Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.
A few Oregonians' love for Lord of the Rings landed them in a strange saga of their own. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Portland writer Donald Miller is selling books, wowing fans-and fighting to shake up Christianity as we know it. Bean Town
Thanks to a gang of coffee fanatics, Portland is the center of a new microbrew revolution. Portland's New New Economy
High unemployment. More businesses. Lower income. More newcomers. It ain't business as usual. Garden of Weedin'
Oregon's medical marijuana growers want to win respect, help the sick...and grow the kindest bud on the planet. ATTACK OF THE $3 TOMATO
How Portland's snooty tastes are saving Oregon farms, luring kids back to the land and even-gasp!-teaching Republicans and Democrats to get along. Return of the Piper
CAN PORTLAND'S MOST FAMOUS BAD BOY SAVE PRO WRESTLING FROM THE EVIL EMPIRE? THE REBEL ALLIANCE
An unlikely army of hacker hippies, geek visionaries, idealistic teachers and corporate giants is making Portland ground zero of a digital revolution. SPACE INVADER
Phantom Dialer, computer hacker The Portland Adult Soapbox Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.
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