Food Reviews & Stories You’re in the right place when a super-friendly server offers a steaming cup of green tea while you puzzle on a rainy day what to order from this Japanese food cart’s 14-item menu. And, it turns out, no puzzling was needed; both dishes I ordered were tasty and filling. The spicy teriyaki More
Cheap Eats 2009
Food Reviews & Stories You’re in the right place when a super-friendly server offers a steaming cup of green tea while you puzzle on a rainy day what to order from this Japanese food cart’s 14-item menu. And, it turns out, no puzzling was needed; both dishes I ordered were tasty and filling. The spicy teriyaki More
Sam’s Club
There’s huge interest in the mayor’s first State-of-the-City speech. Is it the “economic crisis”?
News A mayor’s annual State of the City speech is usually a dry affair. The mayor delivers a laundry list of policy goals blended with squishy aspirations to City Club of Portland’s weekly Frid ... More
Ed Tick
The U.S. sends our troops to war, this psychotherapist takes them back to heal.
Q & A Ed Tick doesn’t lack for work. A clinical psychotherapist and author based in Albany, N.Y., who has treated survivors of wars and other global horrors for three decades, Tick obviously has plent ... More
Jeana Frazzini
Basic Rights Oregon head can’t stand the lie, not the liar.
Q & A Basic Rights Oregon executive director Jeana Frazzini agreed a couple weeks back to visit our office on Jan. 22 so we could chat about her group’s legislative agenda to advance gay rights. Needl ... More
Bob Tiernan
Oregon’s GOP chairman on the business of being a Republican and why gay, agnostic Portlanders should vote for Republicans.
Q & A For somebody who just got chosen for a brutal job—turning around the Republican Party in Oregon—Bob Tiernan was in a pretty damn good mood last week. Some might wonder why Tiernan laughed ... More
How Deep Is Your Guv?
The governor is almost on the shelf. Here’s how he’s done so far.
News Rod Blagojevich or Eliot Spitzer he ain’t. There’s little risk that Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski—whom even his foes consider a nice enough guy—would get caught hawking a U.S. Sen ... More
Hoop Dreams
Can the Blazers really be this good?
News Dare Portland Trail Blazers fans dream of a playoff run this spring in the tough Western Conference? With a 12-6 record heading into the New York game Dec. 2, the Blazers have soared past pre-season e ... More
Ingrid Newkirk
PETA co-founder is a “press slut” and proud of it.
Q & A Ingrid Newkirk is quick with a quote or to light up some folks. As co-founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in 1980, Newkirk has had a lot of practice at both. Newkirk and PETA, whic ... More
Obama Drama
Deciding a president, Oregon’s next senator and a dozen state ballot measures.
News America elected a black man as president on Tuesday. Rivaled only by “Man Lands on the Moon,” the underlying news in the sentence above is among the most monumental in this nation’s ... More
Michael Tomasky
A national political commentator looks back on his forecasts for 2008, and gives us one more for election day.
Q & A Michael Tomasky makes his living as a political commentator and editor of Guardian America, a year-old online version of the 187-year-old British newspaper for readers interested in America. But Tomas ... More
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What Oregon’s “Resident Contrarian” says about politics, race and battling depression: An excerpt from Avel Gordly’s memoir. Sum Of Sam
We ask Mayor Sam Adams about his political future, marijuana, cop shootings, leaf fees, the crappy economy, bikes and media coverage of him. We also ask whatever happened to “Mike and Jean.” He wasn’t happy about that last question. Second Life
Can public campaign finance be revived in Portland? Duck Tales
Take a trip inside an Oregon football fan’s troubled mind. The Daily Show
Can a new publisher reverse the slide at The Oregonian? Doctor gone
Doc who treated Lance Armstrong is out at OHSU. Tim Donaghy
Ex-ref says Rasheed was right and small-market teams like Portland are screwed. Prescott Cafe
Merritt Paulson
As Portland Hosts the Triple-A All-Star Game, WW gets a scouting report on the future of baseball, soccer and other “crap” from the Beavers owner . Cheap Eats 2011: Shandong
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