Headout Photo of Michael Weinberg by Chris ChenThanksgiving is Michael Weinberg’s favorite holiday. It’s not rife with religious complications, it involves spending all day with food and friends, ...   More

News Zoë, who is 6-foot-1, towers over the bar in clear platform shoes that recalibrate her height to 6 feet 6 inches. She wears a no-frills pink bra-and-panty set that appears to be made of spandex. ...   More

News Stanley Waters is halfway through his piano lesson on a sunny Tuesday in June when the 18-year-old student spots something new.Gloria Wiley, his piano instructor, has led him toward the center of the ...   More

News As recently as 1980, according to old phone books, Portland did not claim a single sushi restaurant, or at least none that advertised as such. Today, there are morethan 50 restaurants in town—Ja ...   More

News "In the halls of Meek Professional Technical High School in Northeast Portland, well before the first bell rings, the music of long-dead white men—Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig van Beeth ...   More

News Stanley Waters was walking down Southeast Belmont Street the other day when a young man stumbled out of a bar and froze. "Stanley!" he yelled.When Stanley turned around, the man began to gush, amazed ...   More

News In the halls of Meek Professional Technical High School in Northeast Portland, well before the first bell rings, the music of long-dead white men-Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, F ...   More