News Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's apparent suicide in Colorado on Sunday is a tragedy—for Thompson's family and fans, but also for Journalism, the patient the Doctor treated.No, his recent writing does not mat ... More
So Long, Hunter
News Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's apparent suicide in Colorado on Sunday is a tragedy—for Thompson's family and fans, but also for Journalism, the patient the Doctor treated.No, his recent writing does not mat ... More
Romancing the Skate
Skateboards + Developers = Love.
News Cigarettes, rotting orange peels and trash litter the ground. The broken windows in the nearby buildings recall meth addicts' dentistry. This is Portland's skateboard heaven.In 1990, a bunch of Portla ... More
Waterfront Brawl
A development controversy is Mayor Tom Potter's first big test.
News When Mayor Tom Potter cast a lonely No vote on plans to increase the height and width of buildings in the new South Waterfront district last Wednesday, it looked like the first major controversy of hi ... More
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Portland writer Donald Miller is selling books, wowing fans-and fighting to shake up Christianity as we know it.
News Don Miller sits at Crema, a sleek coffeeshop at Southeast 28th Avenue and Ankeny Street, his cell phone buzzing every few minutes. A magazine photographer is scrambling to reschedule a shoot for that ... More
Happy Days Are Here Again
Portland’s first vodka distillery promises “New Deal” for local drinkers.
News Will a city in love with specialty coffee, microbrew beer and boutique pinot noir warm to its very own vodka? When New Deal Vodka hits the market at the end of the month, two ex-Reedies-turned-compute ... More
Larry Dashiell
Jefferson High's principal wants to have your child.
News In 2002, Larry Dashiell became the principal of Jefferson High School. The place was a mess.Less than 700 kids rattled around a building that served more than 1,000 in 1995. In 1997, Portland Public S ... More
Bid Bros. Make Hay
Local biz beats up on O's eBay phobia.
News This week, KGW starts running a commercial that takes a brutal jab at ye olde newspaper classified ads. The spot begins with a red pen slashing through the word "Classifieds" in a cartoon newspaper. T ... More
Put Me In, Coach
Doctor-turned-developer Brad Malsin is ready to play--and slay the Burnside big-box project.
News Three developers. Three ideas. One site. Whoever wins the battle to redevelop the Burnside Bridge's east end, the result will be a five-block monster. Fittingly, two competitors are industry titans wh ... More
Sports
Special Section The Jock Gods didn't do much for Oregonians in '04 (just ask Joey Harrington). But we could all smile on Aug. 17, when 19-year-old Beavertonian Mariel Zagunis became the first American woman to win Ol ... More
The Big Bible Blog Battle
Online dissidents blast megachurch.
News In Portland's conservative evangelical circles, City Bible Church is a colossus. Its twin-domed complex at Northeast 92nd Avenue and Fremont Street attracts about 4,000 faithful on Sundays. Pastor Fra ... 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. 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. Return of the Piper
CAN PORTLAND'S MOST FAMOUS BAD BOY SAVE PRO WRESTLING FROM THE EVIL EMPIRE? 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. 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. Return of the Piper
CAN PORTLAND'S MOST FAMOUS BAD BOY SAVE PRO WRESTLING FROM THE EVIL EMPIRE? SPACE INVADER
Phantom Dialer, computer hacker The Portland Adult Soapbox Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.
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