Food Reviews & Stories If it takes you a while to get past the pretension of a place marked with an ambiguous logo—the bar’s only signage is a silhouette of, presumably, owner Ron Toms wearing a propeller-clad backpack—instead of a proper name, you’re not alone. Kinda smacks of “If you’   More

Food Reviews & Stories I know I’m not the only PDX resident who’s originally from the Midwest (or another region where most folks drink crappy domestic beer), so let me say this: Morrison Hotel is just like those bars you used to go to in order to drink good (meaning European) beer. And its mostly bottled-beer   More

Food Reviews & Stories You know it’s a good sign when you go someplace for work and end up staying for hours—that’s what happened on my first visit to the perplexingly named Southeast joint North Bar. It looks a bit sterile, as the nondescript storefront and silver-rimmed windows could indicate a doctor&   More

Music Apparently, it takes at least three days to recover from WW's Best New Band showcase. Yeah, it was that good. So good, in fact, that all I've been saying for the past few days is "all three bands were on top of their games" and "best Best New ...   More

Music Do-goodery hits us at different times. For 16-year-old Lincoln High student Alden Harris-McCoy, the charitable urge struck when he realized profits from his Curbside Market—a food cart he runs during school lunch hours—could serve the greater good. For the entrepreneurial jazz guitarist and Lincoln Jazz ...   More

Here Comes Your Fan Do-goodery hits us at different times. For 16-year-old Lincoln High student Alden Harris-McCoy, the charitable urge struck when he realized profits from his Curbside Market—a food cart he runs d ...   More

Music If there's one singer I consistently hear other musicians rave about in this town, it's Autopilot's Adrienne Hatkin. Okay, I hear about how awesome the Builders and the Butchers are an awful lot, too—but they're a band, not a singer, OK? Oddly enough, though, Hatkin happens to be an ex-...   More

Music Well, whadya know? Two of this year's Best New Bands—The Builders and the Butchers and Loch Lomond—like each other so darn much that they recorded a split 12-inch together last fall. Which makes it pretty easy for us...   More

Music BALLOT BREAKDOWN:
How Portland's Top 10 Best New Bands were chosen.

Below is the Best New Band Poll Ballot letter for 2008. This letter was sent out to close to 400 local music experts. The only bands (who are...   More

Music Spitfire pseudo-preachers, sexy-spastic frontwomen, ghosts and dream weavers—they're all here in Willamette Week's fifth annual Best New Bands issue. But first things first: Just so we're clear, WW does not pick the winner, or even the top 10. Neither do most of you. That task is left to a...   More