Movie Reviews & Stories It takes some kind of performance to bust through Oliver Stone’s hardened lacquer of film stocks and oblique angles. In Savages, Benicio Del Toro...    More

News In the wake of our cover story examining Oregon's quixotic crusade against illegal fireworks, WW has been following with some interest the seasonal reports of explosives accidents.
So when    More

Cover Story You thought it was a victimless crime, a Portland rite of passage. You drive across the Columbia River, fill your trunk with powerful fireworks that are legal in Washington, and then smuggle the   More

News Last fall, the Metro area was abuzz with the story of a TriMet driver kicking a mother and her screaming infant off a No. 57 bus on a September night, saying the baby's crying was a distraction.

The Forest Grove News-Times now breaks the news that the transit agency i...   More

Movies & Television From veteran gossip hound Byron Beck comes word that MTV is planning to shoot the 28th season of reality-television juggernaut The Real World in Portland starting in July.

For those of you who've already decided this is the wors...   More

News Adriana H. Canas, the Democratic candidate for House District 30 (Hillsboro), has withdrawn from the race after WW revealed that she filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy twice in the past eight years."My ...   More

News Four months before its much-vilified contract expires, the TriMet employees union has upended a power structure that has held sway for nearly 25 years. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757 elected Bruce Hansen president on Friday—an upset of Ron Heintzman, the    More

News Buried under the tide of fare increases and service cuts in the budget TriMet passed yesterday is a sliver of good news for the transit agency's poorest riders.Before approving a budget designed to fill a $12 million shortfall, TriM...   More

News Mayoral candidate Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-Portland) has named a new campaign manager for the runoff election: Henry Kraemer, the organizing director of the Bus Project, the youth political engagement nonprofit Smith founded.Kraemer will step down from the Bus Project, he confirmed to WW this afternoon.
"I'm leaving the Bus," Kraemer said. "I'...   More

News The TriMet board of directors passed a budget this afternoon that fills a $12 million shortfall by ending the Free Rail Zone, cutting bus service and raising two-hour fares to a flat fee of $2.50. That's a 40-cent hike from a current two-hour ticket.The changes will go into effect Sept. 1.The proposed budget has been under discussion for months, and the only suspense today was whether TriMet would...   More