Music This week's behind-the-scenes look into Portland's persona band movement, Alter Egos, generated lots of great quotes. Here are some of the highlights of the lines that didn't make it into the article, including perspectives from two bands there wasn't ...   More

Featured Stories It’s late October, the last days of East Burnside’s Outlaws Music Hall, and the club’s green room is full of people pulling on costumes, applying eyeliner and doing warm-up stretches ...   More

Music [OTHERWORLDLY FOLK] Loch Lomond and the Builders and the Butchers might seem an odd couple. The former plays idyllic, expansive chamber folk, the latter stripped-down punk-blues. But these seemingly disparate groups share two commonalities: Both have dark sides, and both could be f...   More

Music Stories [OTHERWORLDLY FOLK] Loch Lomond and the Builders and the Butchers might seem an odd couple. The former plays idyllic, expansive chamber folk, the latter stripped-down punk-blues. But these seemingly d ...   More

Music Anne Adams is a busy lady. In addition to performing pop whimsy around town as Per Se, she's also doing scut work for a major fantasy film that's being shot in Portland. And that made it so difficult to schedule an interview -- even a phone interview -- for this week's Per Se profile in WW that we ended up ...   More

Music [QUIRK POP] When she performs as Per Se, Anne Adams is not afraid to get her audience’s attention—whether it’s by striking up a conversation (“Did you guys find parking OK?” she asked the crowd at this year’s PDX Pop Now! festival) or by wearing homemade wings. “Really, it&...   More

Music Stories [QUIRK POP] When she performs as Per Se, Anne Adams is not afraid to get her audience’s attention—whether it’s by striking up a conversation (“Did you guys find parking OK?&rdq ...   More

Music [CHAMBER FOLK] If you've only recently stumbled on the quiet wonder that is Portland's Loch Lomond, the folk ensemble's sprawling chamber enchantments might seem like they sprung fully formed out of songwriter Ritchie Young's skull. But go back and listen to the band's 2003 debut, When We Were Mountains. What...   More

Music Stories [CHAMBER FOLK] If you’ve only recently stumbled on the quiet wonder that is Portland’s Loch Lomond, the folk ensemble’s sprawling chamber enchantments might seem like they sprung ful ...   More

Visual Arts A busboy who eats magic fortune cookies that turn him into a shirtless ninja robot so he can fight the monsters that a gangster put in the walls of his restaurant? A girl named Sexica who smuggles mag ...   More