Performance Carol Triffle, the co-founder of Imago Theatre, possesses the strangest sense of humor it has ever been my bemused pleasure to encounter. While Triffle and Imago are best known for the family-frien   More

Featured Stories Spring in Portland is a series of small victories. We celebrate the day every camellia blooms at once; the first dry weekend; the first day Mount St. Helens peeks through the mist.
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Features On Sunday, May 22, the Oregon Humane Society took over the streets outside MacTarnahan's Taproom for the annual Pug Crawl. Billed as the largest gathering of pugs in the Pacific Northwest (imagine the wheezing!), the event featured some 80 costumed pups. WW's Natalie Behring was there to document the occasion in photos. Willamette Week: Your paper of record for pictures of dogs.   More

Food Reviews & Stories There are those who say Portland lacks diversity, that it is little more than a playground for overeducated, underemployed white people, and that the city will never, for all the mayor’s talk of    More

Food Reviews & Stories CSAs For cooks too lazy (yours truly) or landless to grow their own food, community-supported agriculture is the easiest and most economical way to ensure you always have fresh produce on hand. CSA   More

Performance Hand2Mouth, the Portland performance ensemble headed by director Jonathan Walters, is obsessed with memory. While its last several performances have ostensibly been about greed, patriotism, immigra   More

Headout We’ve seen the billboards, the sign trucks and the canvassers, so we know Harold Camping, the founder of Family Radio, has predicted you will return to Earth on May 21.    More

Arts & Books I'm not exactly wild about the neighborhood Willamette Week has called home since 2006. Shortly after we moved in to our building at Northwest 22nd Avenue and Quimby Street, a coworker described the area as a "wasteland of $8 hamburgers"—a description that, although lunch prospects have improved substantially since then, still rings true.
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Performance The jammed-up Vietnam vet, as a character, achieved its epitome in 1998 at the hands of the Coen brothers, but writers keep going back to the Walter Sobchak well. Steven Dietz’s 2004 drama, in wh   More

Arts & Books While walking in Creston-Kennilworth recently, I spotted two houses, one block apart, that epitomize the potential for strangeness that comes of owner-built additions. The owner of the first, at left, has run with his home's silly Tudorbethan half-timbering and adopted a Ye Olde theme for the property, adding a plastered entryway that looks straight out of the Shire.
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