Eat This Book

Cookbook celebs invade Portland, bring food.

Headout This weekend around 1,200 rapacious foodies are flocking to town for the International Association of Culinary Professionals conference—a lavish series of workshops, parties, tours and dinners f ... More

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 KELLY CLARKE

Rod Englert

Oregon’s world-renowned crime-scene expert and cold-case sleuth reads the spatter on the walls.

Q & A “The patterns are the same anywhere in the world,” Rod Englert calmly explains. “Murder is murder.” He should know. The Oregon-based crime scene reconstructionist has spent mor ... More

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 KELLY CLARKE

LIVE REVIEW: U-Theatre at the Newmark

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U-Theatre, one of Taiwan's national cultural treasures, spends most of its time at a outpost near the top of a hill outside of Taipei—surrounded by wind and... More

Friday, April 9, 2010 by KELLY CLARKE

Clash Of The Titans

It was a monster mash!

Movie Reviews & Stories “It is a colossal, elemental beast. It doesn’t think, it doesn’t feel,” says the Greek soldier, adorned with dreadlocks and eyeliner. He’s talking about the Kraken, a myt ... More

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 KELLY CLARKE

WW's Eat Mobile Food Cart Festival is back. Get your tix now.

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A dispatch from the Department of Shameless Self-Promotion (of Awesomeness): Eat Mobile, WW's annual food cart festival, is back. T... More

Thursday, March 25, 2010 by KELLY CLARKE

P:ear Blossoms through Apartment Benefit Dinners

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[This dispatch is written by WW freelancers Kimberly Lilly and Jay Horton]

“At the end of last year's winter holidays our organization ran out of money,” says Pippa Arend, program director and co founder of More

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 by KELLY CLARKE

UPDATED: Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center to Close This Spring.t

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Cruddy news from a North Portland arts gem. Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center will shutter this spring due to declining revenues. Th... More

Friday, March 19, 2010 by KELLY CLARKE

Live Review: POV Dance at The Ford Building.

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"Come' on blue people! Follow me!" yells choreographer Noel Plemmons, raising a tour guide's blue marker to lead a group of 15 or so curious dance fans in the atrium of the Ford Building in Southeast Portland to the starting point of The Ford B... More

Friday, March 12, 2010 by KELLY CLARKE

Cheap Eats 2010

Food Reviews & Stories The decor at this music-themed cafe and open-mic bar is seriously out of tune, from the hokey Tron-meets-Portland bridges mural to the album and Life mag covers (Herb Alpert and Bing Crosby?) that adorn the beige walls. But inside this bland shell lurks some great, eclectic lunch fare. It’s th More

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 KELLY CLARKE

Cheap Eats 2010

Food Reviews & Stories Not to be confused with the smarmy-awesome Original Hotcake House, this Southwest Portland breakfast institution (the original location of the nationwide chain) stuffs locals with the same giant, airy Dutch babies ($10.50), tall stacks of pancakes ($8.75) and thick sausages that it did back in the 1 More

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 KELLY CLARKE