News Hand it to Lee Moore--the guy knows how to stay on the winning side of the Lottery.Last winter, the state shelled out $100,000 to oust Moore from his post as the Oregon Lottery's deputy director. ... More
A Lucky Man
News Hand it to Lee Moore--the guy knows how to stay on the winning side of the Lottery.Last winter, the state shelled out $100,000 to oust Moore from his post as the Oregon Lottery's deputy director. ... More
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Deception
This is the story of Reclinerland's latest, and Michael Johnson's stickin' to it.
Music Stories Michael Johnson was temping at a musicology institute when he met a crumpled old Britisher named Tad Middling, pushing a broom.Middling, a janitor with a music Ph.D., felt an immediate kinship with ... More
Million-Dollar New Age Hits
A most unmellow copyright suit may cost a Portland company more than karma.
News People often bitch that all New Age music sounds the same. Two weeks ago, a Portland jury decided a local music company tried to capitalize on that fact. They ordered the outfit to pay nearly $1 m ... More
An Empty Cup?
Portland went nuts for the Women's World Cup. But will it ever happen again?
News The Women's World Cup brought them out of the woodwork: Jews for Jesus, zaftig streakers, Chinese dragon dancers, Ghanaian drummers. Oh, and 27,000 partisans who packed PGE Park last for Sunday's ... More
A Hazardous Outing
For years, Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk managed to keep his personal life under wraps. Whoops.
News The best-kept open secret of Portland's literary scene is history. Last week, Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk made public his 11-year relationship with another man.The revelation, in a now-delet ... More
Black Queens in the 'burbs
Ghana's outsider World Cup campaign gets an assist from...Tigard?
News On a recent chilly afternoon, Alberta Sackey sat in Tigard's Shilo Inn and promised to shock the soccer world."We go in as the underdog," acknowledged the 31-year-old captain of Ghana's national w ... More
King of the Fight Club
News Last Friday the Team Quest headquarters, a garagelike space behind a used-car lot at the corner of Southeast Stark Street and 182nd Avenue, was full of young men--ripped, tattooed, barefoot--beati ... More
Portland, UNPLUGGED
A new city committee chases wi-fi dreams.
News Picture this: A Lufthansa flight lands at PDX. A globe-trotting executive power-walks down the gangway and flips open her laptop. Bam--she discovers she's in Internet heaven.She can ride the MAX, ... More
RAW POWER
How Portland became home base for the world's most radical food movement.
News Victoria Jayne has sparkling, clear-blue-sky eyes, and a mission in life just as intense. She says she knows how people can live longer.And cure acne. And depression.Plus build almost impregnable im ... More
Line of Fire?
Shake-up rocks city crimewatch staff.
News When there's trouble in Northeast Portland--when dodgy cars prowl past drug houses, suspicious characters loiter on corners or neighbors trade dirty looks--many solid citizens call Paul Dinberg fi ... 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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