News By noon last Monday, Craig Schmugar could tell he was in for a hell of a week.Schmugar works at the Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team's computer lab in Beaverton. This digital Special Forces outfit i ... More
NAME of the BEAST
For one Portland virus hunter, MyDoom meant a frantic week--and a little fame.
News By noon last Monday, Craig Schmugar could tell he was in for a hell of a week.Schmugar works at the Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team's computer lab in Beaverton. This digital Special Forces outfit i ... More
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.
News Tux the Penguin is a fat little thing. He's google-eyed and sports a grin that suggests a recent lobotomy.Weird symbol for a revolution. Yet Tux is the mascot of a movement that's rocking the computer ... More
They're Gonna Do What?
Questions about the Portland transit mall only we were dumb enough to ask.
News Somewhere amid the flurry of end-of-year lists and coverage of the Storm of the Century, we latched on to the fact that major changes are in the works for the downtown bus mall, Portland's mass-transi ... More
Khmer, But Don't Stay
Portland's Cambodian community scrambles to fight deportations.
News Four bald, orange-robed men chanted hypnotically over a banquet table laden with steaming bowls of fragrant stews and rice. Dozens of people knelt on the living-room floor in the small North Portland ... More
The Clap Is Back
Sex clubs are booming, the Internet's buzzing, crystal meth is everywhere. And syphilis is on the rampage.
News Richard Lawson's hair is an elegant silver-gold sweep. His bearing is assured, his speech measured and articulate.He is a gentlemanly--even grandfatherly--man, yet he owns a business where people pay ... More
Bush's Merciful Friend
A Portland aid organization provides some good news--for a change--from Iraq.
News Maybe you've heard of Mercy Corps, the Portland-based aid agency that, for 24 years, has worked in some of the world's worst places. In Kosovo, Mercy Corps helps dairy farmers sell surplus milk. I ... More
Yellow Dog
Books Yellow Dog finds Martin Amis unable to make up his mind--he can't decide if he wants to be P.G. Wodehouse, Guy Ritchie or Irvine Welsh. So we get all that and the proverbial kitchen sink: a Chines ... More
Frankentrees
Oregon scientists and activists face off over genetically engineered trees.
News If a mad scientist created the archetypal Portland environmental activist, he might well produce Mark Des Marets. The 34-year-old works for causes that may be noble, but hardly seem lucrative. His ... More
the clandestine diary of an ordinary iraqi
Books the clandestine diary of an ordinary iraqi by Salam Pax (Grove, 206 pages, $13)Maybe you got the email, days before the invasion of Iraq: "Is this guy for real?" "Hoax!" "Is he CIA?" Someone in Ba ... More
Existing While Mexican
A century-old ID card changes life for Oregon's biggest immigrant group.
News In California's recall circus, Arnold Schwarzenegger used a law providing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants to pummel hapless Gray Davis. Exit polls suggested 70 percent of recall voters opp ... 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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