News City officials including Mayor Sam Adams have softened their stance against Walmart recently as the shopping giant hires local software talent for its downtown Portland mobile-apps headquarters, More
Steve Novick Wants Sam Adams' Anti-Walmart Flag
News City officials including Mayor Sam Adams have softened their stance against Walmart recently as the shopping giant hires local software talent for its downtown Portland mobile-apps headquarters, More
Oregon Women at GOP Convention Say Todd Akin's Right About Rape
News A mother and daughter from Redmond, Oregon serving as Republican National Convention delegates told a radio reporter yesterday that Missouri Rep. Todd Akin was right that women getting pregnant from rape is "so c... More
Walmart Building Portland's Largest Ecoroof, But Still Has Enemies in City Hall
News A story in this week's WW shows Portland officials—including Mayor Sam Adams and both mayoral candidates—scaling back the city's anti-Walmart stance as the shopping giant's mobile-software division, WalmartLabs, moves into a do... More
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Movie Reviews & Stories Fernando Meirelles’ leap into the world-cinema scene, 2002’s City of God, had more velocity than substance, but at least it was going someplace. Since then, the Brazilian director’s conscien More
Value Shopping
Sam Adams tried to keep Walmart from expanding here. He failed.
News The company moving into an 8,500-square-foot office above Rock Bottom Brewing in downtown Portland on Sept. 7 is the sort of tech-sector success... More
More Than 40 Nonprofits Apply to Give TriMet Tickets to Poor People
News Low-income Portlanders seeking free TriMet tickets and passes should soon know where to look: More than 40 nonprofits have applied for a transit-agency program giving them fares at a 20 percent discount.
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Oregonian's Owner Cuts Print Editions at Two More Papers
News The Oregonian's owner keeps lopping off publication days back east.
Advance Publications, the New Jersey-based media company that owns The Oregonian, has announced it's reducing print editions at two of its daily newspapers: the More
Mississippi Avenue's Video Verite Will Close in October
Movies & Television One of Portland's last remaining locally-owned movie rental stores, Video Vérité on North Mississippi Avenue, will close in October.Owner Marc Mohan, who is also a freelance film critic for The Oregonian, announced the incipient shuttering today More
Slow Ride
The Portland streetcar is coming to the east side, but records show it’s too broke to provide the service boosters promised.
News Last week, Mayor Sam Adams and about two dozen planners, consultants and other civic leaders took their first ride on the new eastside... More
Why Does the FBI Call Juggalos a Gang? Because of Oregon Crimes
News Horrorcore rappers Insane Clown Posse announced last week that they're looking into why the Federal Bureau of Investigation has categorized their fans, the Juggalos, as a gang.The band's front ... More
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Let’s pick the next mayor the only sane way: with a bracket. Voodoo Child
Doughnut kingpin Tres Shannon wants to make the whole city his fun park. Thai Hard
Andy Ricker takes Pok Pok to New York. Do his wings have a prayer? Jacked Up
Ehren Mcghehey is Portland’s resident Jackass. (Now Injured In 3-D!)
The aggressive dork CEOs spearheading Portland’s startup scene. Children Of A Higher God
The members of the Santo Daime church fought for the right to drink hallucinogenic tea. And they’re serving it to kids. Mock Star
Carrie Brownstein is making fun of you. Quake-Up Call
There’s a massive earthquake in Portland’s future—and a government “prophet of doom” will tell you all about it. Notes From the Occupation
48 hours inside Occupy Portland. Professor Xbox
Tom Bissell is Portland's finest writer. Why is he spending his time on video games and bad movies? Mayoral Madness
Let’s pick the next mayor the only sane way: with a bracket. Voodoo Child
Doughnut kingpin Tres Shannon wants to make the whole city his fun park. Thai Hard
Andy Ricker takes Pok Pok to New York. Do his wings have a prayer? Jacked Up
Ehren Mcghehey is Portland’s resident Jackass. (Now Injured In 3-D!)
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