News Maybe the Portland motto should just be "The City the Works the Red Carpet."Mayor Sam Adams, known nationally for playing the role of his own assistant on cable television, has recorded a promotional video for Portlandia, entreating the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences to bestow awards on Carrie Brownstein's local parody s...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories The opening credits of Alex Ross Perry’s The Color Wheel use the same swollen font the first edition of Portnoy’s Complaint had on its front cover. That’s no accident: Both works are young men   More

Brew Views The title of Jeff, Who Lives at Home tells you a lot about what sort of movie this might be: downtrodden, acerbic, commuting between office parks and Mom’s basement. And for the first 45 minut   More

Cover Story The No. 6 bus is doing just fine until the wheelchairs show up. A soaking Tuesday has cleared into afternoon blue skies. The southbound No. 6 leaves Jantzen Beach at 3:22 pm, so empty that passe   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Richard Linklater’s new movie contains all the “outrageous” elements obligatory to deadpan, small-town true crime. Nice-guy killer? Meet Bernie Tiede, hymn-singing assistant mortician with   More

News Before President Barack Obama declared his support for same-sex marriage last week, he had been talking with Terry Bean about the issue for four years.  Bean, a Portland real-estate broke   More

Food & Drink When last we checked in with Andy Ricker's expanding Thai food empire, he had unleashed Pok Pok Wing on New York City's Lower East Side, but was a little unsure when he'd open full-menu restaurant Pok Pok Ny in Red Hook.
Well, it opened. And, judging from this    More

News State Rep. Jefferson Smith received two phone calls from businesswoman Eileen Brady tonight.
Smith had been holding steady in second place in the mayor's race as election results rolled in. That guaranteed him a spot in the runoff against Charlie Hales this November. It wasn't clear what Brady, who lagged well behind Smith, would do.
Smith arrived late at his party at the Bossanova Ballr...   More

Brew Views The best joke of Casa de Mi Padre is that it exists at all. Nearly entirely in Spanish, with Will Ferrell playing a Mexican ranching heir alongside Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, the film is   More

Brew Views Let’s all take a moment to thank George Raft for The Maltese Falcon. Sure, he’s not actually in it—that’s why we’re grateful. The blank chorus boy with the tough-guy mug made a second ca   More