Special Section Lesbian. Black. Wheelchair-bound. Suffering from brain cancer. It was hard to imagine a more vulnerable target. In May 1992, when a 40-year-old former corrections officer named Azalea Cooley said that ...   More

Special Section Dutch Savage is breaking my arm.Looming over me like a windmill, he's got my forearm bent back against my shoulder so that my elbow's tight as a drum. One more ounce of pressure and it's going to snap ...   More

Special Section Young. Sharp. Good-looking. Republican Pat Gillis was a liberal's worst nightmare. At the tender age of 24, he ran for the Oregon statehouse in a lunch-bucket district on Portland's east side, and bea ...   More

Special Section THEN: Reed College art senior who engineered the surreal reverse-peristalsis protest of 1990, when a dozen demonstrators greeted Vice President Dan Quayle with a hail of red, white and blue vomit. NOW ...   More

Special Section In 1985, when WW put him on our cover, Andy Minsker was at the top of his game. Golden Gloves champion. Amateur Boxing Federation champion. He had flattened both the British Commonwealth and Yugoslav ...   More

Special Section Eighty-Second Avenue has always been the frontier that splits Portland's psyche in two. To the west lie the manicured lawns and cinnamon lattes, the bike paths and Birkenstocks that define the city's ...   More

Special Section Resplendent in black robes, black shirt and black leather boots, his head shaved smooth as an egg, Rex Diabolos Church leans back in his enormous black leather armchair, swathed in the inky blackness ...   More

Special Section Frank Peters' three rules of cooking:Disable all smoke alarms.If you're cooking for three, prepare for five.Never sauté in the nude.Chef. Baseball star. Securities broker. Ladies' man. Dope gro ...   More

Cover Story Stars. Rogues. Victims. Heroes. Some burst into the headlines like meteors streaking across the sky. Some come into focus slowly, like old Polaroid prints.However they arrive on the scene, most newsma ...   More

News On the second floor of a battered detox facility deep in Portland's heroin zone, a little white pill is blunting the misery of withdrawal and revolutionizing the treatment of opiate addiction--all for ...   More