Q & A Think of Michael Dowd’s new book, Thank God for Evolution!, as a kind of spiritual Nicorette gum for Christian fundamentalists: It’s not a perfect solution, but at least you’re not s ... More
Michael Dowd
This reverend claims to have solved the debate between creation and evolution. Somebody give the man a fish.
Q & A Think of Michael Dowd’s new book, Thank God for Evolution!, as a kind of spiritual Nicorette gum for Christian fundamentalists: It’s not a perfect solution, but at least you’re not s ... More
When I See an Elephant Fall: Demolition Begins on PDX Icon “Packy” Mural
News
[Packy activist and Voodoo Doughnuts co-owner Tres Shannon protests Packy's demolition at Mercy Corps' new heaquarters.]
Demolition began today at the site of Portland-based nonprofit Mercy Corps' new global headquarters in Old Town's Skidmore Fountai... More
Eco-Seltzer: The Secret Life of Margaret Jones
News
Remember Peggy Seltzer, a.k.a. Margaret Jones? The lady from Eugene who wrote a fake memoir about growin' up in the hood? Well, WW's been doing some sleuthing, and it turns out that the real Peggy Seltzer—a sort ... More
Nic and David Sheff
When It Comes To Meth, Father’s Not Like Son.
Q & A By the age of 18, Nic Sheff was addicted to meth. It wasn’t pretty. He was skeletally thin, his arms were full of holes and green with infection, he broke into relatives’ houses and stole ... More
Water
Protecting our precious bodily fluids with pure hokum.
Movie Reviews & Stories It is very difficult to overestimate the importance of water. Russian filmmakers Anastasiya Popova and Julia Perkul have done it. In the monolithically titled Water—co-distributed by PDX-based M ... More
Albert Herring (Portland Opera)
Spitzeresque tale: Chastity is the best policy.
Performance Ever been praised for something that labeled you a doofus? Perfect attendance? Clean underpants? That’s the premise for Benjamin Britten’s comic chamber opera Albert Herring, based on a sh ... More
Chi Whiz
Urban acupuncturist Adam Kuby salves Portland with massive needles.
Featured Stories A city is like a body. It eats, it ... More
Live Review: Twelve Angry Men
News A successful production of Twelve Angry Men seems to consist in playing it close to the ground, honoring authorial intent. The play doesn't lend itself to aggressive interpretation or experimentation, for the ... More
Genre Bending: All Consequences, No Love for Oregon Memoir Faker
News It's been a bad couple of weeks for memoirs. On Saturday, Belgian writer Misha Defonseca admitted that her ostensible life story, Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years, had little or no basis in reality: she hadn't, in fact, run away from the Nazis or lived with a friendly pack ... More
Meth Pair Ditch Portland, Pick Oprah
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[David Sheff (above) and his son Nic Sheff wrote memoirs about Nic's meth addiction]
What's gives? Ditching Portland for some TV show? Who is this Oprah lady anyway?
That's right, David and Nic Sheff, the father and son wh... More
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Portlander Robert Cheeke is the face of vegan bodybuilding. Futurehaus
A local company is building a house you can heat with a blow-dryer. The Bike Farmer
Kollibri Sonnenblume digs up his neighbors’ yards. And they thank him for it. Katie Crouch, "Girls in Trucks"
From plantation to Penn Station. Turandot (Portland Opera)
Three riddles, one big bummer. Michael Schaub
The managing editor of lit website Bookslut free associates and smack-talks Kindle. Pagliacci/Carmina Burana (Portland Opera)
Murderous clowns never sounded so good. Wells Tower Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Stories to pillage by. Water
Protecting our precious bodily fluids with pure hokum. Nic and David Sheff
When It Comes To Meth, Father’s Not Like Son.
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