Featured Stories Ah, Portland: home to bicyclists, coffee connoisseurs, swingers, strippers, pole contortionists and gangbang aficionados. Wait, what? That’s right—this friendly Northwest town is also the home o   More

Featured Stories Being a dog owner sucks during Portland winters. The wet fur, the muddy paws, the days upon days trapped indoors with a stir-crazy pooch...oh, the things we do for love. But come summer, Portland i   More

News Mayor Tom Potter’s anti-prostitution plan for 82nd Avenue stresses four points: making more arrests, placing sex workers on probation that prevents their immediate return to the street, spending ...   More

Q & A Portlander Damali Ayo has been dragging racial skeletons out of the closet for years. The artistic agitator’s flagship performance, a satirical token-black-friend agency called Rent-a-Negro, was ...   More

News Friday, September 12th, 10:30 pm at Leftbank.

As the story goes, Kiki And Herb's pianist Kenny Mellman found his new muse (in singer Bridget Everett) at a New York karaoke bar, where she undoubtedly belted out top 40 hits in the same manner as she does tonight—...   More

News Friday, September 5th, Someday Lounge.

Post-Team Dresch, Post-Butchies melodic punk star Kaia Wilson trots out a new band (affectionately referred to as "The Gayng,") and a new album's worth of country-influenced songs about her recently deceased pets. Best lyric of the night, from a song devoted to Kaia's dearly departed dog: "Let's go down, down to the river, we won't brin...   More

News 11 pm Thursday, September 4, TBA Headquarters at Leftbank: Hundreds of art world migrants descended on East Broadway's Leftbank space and mingled with curious Portlanders at the free opening night party for this year's festival. In the multi-level exhibition hall, between repeat viewings of Ryan Trecartin's flamboyant, addictive video art, sets by Deela...   More

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In a re-enactment of 60's performance artist Anna Halprin's creation, "Blank Placard," for PICA's 2008 TBA Festival, protesters cross the Broadway Bridge Thursday, September 4th at 8:30pm.

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On an afternoon last week, before the Old Town reopening of local nonprofit p:ear, local musician and volunteer Sarah Dougher sat in a sawdust-riddled corner waiting for a Nike representative to drop off donated soccer equipm...   More

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Sunday's 2nd annual Radical Book Fair at Liberty Hall drew a milling crowd of about 150 people, kids, even dogs, over the course of the day.

Was it the plethora of hard-to-find labor-rights tomes, or the pink-frosted cupcakes being hawked à la bake sale at a table in the corner?

About 20 varied booksellers and distributors, from locals Laughing ...   More