Movies & Television Well, pilgrim, Portland has finally gotten as weird as possible.Police say a man walked into Belmont video-rental store Movie Madness this afternoon around 1:15 pm and stole two guns from classic films: John Wayne's Winchester rifle from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and William H...   More

News In last Wednesday's cover story on Mayor Sam Adams' finest moments, Corey Pein pointed out that the mayor's copious use of Twitter allows him to keep connected to the day-to-day concerns of constituents. Adams put those Twitter skills to work this weekend in the f...   More

News The City of Portland fired a shot across Multnomah County's bow on Wednesday, opening what promises to be a prickly skirmish over whether the county will put a library taxing district on the November ballot.

The city's Office of Management and Finance, overseen by Mayor Sam Adams, says that ballot measure will hurt the city, and yesterday it said why.

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News The long regional nightmare is over. Raymond Felton is a Knick.You knew that already. Doubtless you spent the weekend binge-eating in celebration. But Portland's relief at the Blazers trading the    More

Movie Reviews & Stories When last we saw Michelle Williams, she was impersonating Marilyn Monroe for an Oscar nomination. Now she returns to vivify Take This Waltz, a movie that is essentially a pensive, gender-reversed The    More

News Early in his campaign for Portland mayor, Charlie Hales had a big money problem. His chief foe, Eileen Brady...   More

Q & A Leal Sundet says it’s bad enough that the International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union is getting a raw deal at the Port of Portland. He thinks also it’s getting a bum rap. For more than a   More

News The Service Employees International Union Local 49 has endorsed Charlie Hales for mayor, a source near Hales' campaign has told WW.
The candidates have largely split the labor endorsements. Hales landed backing from the United Food and Commercial Workers, the Amalgamated Transit Union and the Joint Council of Teamsters. his opponent, Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-Portland), has been endorsed by the P...   More

News Mayor Sam Adams doesn’t usually attend Metro’s Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation—the board of elected officials...   More

News Occupy Portland protester Cameron Whitten is camped out in front of City Hall, where’s he’s been on a hunger strike for 40 days. As many as three dozen people have joined him, living and sleep   More