Food Reviews & Stories Boastfully billed as “the most organic restaurant in Portland”—a claim that threatens to become our dithering city’s version of New York’s “famous pizza” plague—Papa G’s is the best place in this blindingly green town for a quick vegan bite. Hot    More

Movie Reviews & Stories Truffaut said it was impossible to make an antiwar movie, because trauma is transmuted into pleasure once the screen lights up. Movies about teenagers—even Gus Van Sant’s depressing sketch ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories The great German humorist Arthur Schopenhauer once wrote that life is an “episode unprofitably disturbing the blessed calm of nothingness.” Bleak stuff, and not entirely unconvincing, if y ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories As it neared the end of its six-year run as one of Portland’s best restaurants, Lovely Hula Hands coasted to its closing as yet another sentimental favorite with a killer burger and decent cockt ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Time was when tofu tortas did not exist outside of the Frito-fueled hallucinations of deprived vegans. Enter Los Gorditos. Its mission: allowing vegans to enjoy the slow fade into portliness as much a ...   More

News The much-buzzed horror movie wasn't screened in Portland, but WW fright expert Chris Stamm braved it this weekend:

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In the spirit of found footage horror (see: The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield, REC?), a...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories It’s no mean feat for a screenwriter to carve out a trademark style, to somehow assert a distinct personality in cadence or structure. Try naming a writer whose work is instantly recognizable af ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories They didn’t come to make war, but they didn’t necessarily come in peace, either. These beings from beyond didn’t speed through space-time to probe us, or to Hoover our brains for foo ...   More

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The expertly hyped District 9, set to be released on August 14, is combining smart viral marketing with a top-billed "Peter Jackson Presents" tag to put asses ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Might as well face it: One day you will die, and those you leave behind will have to figure out what to do with all your shit. Who wants the dusty stack of 7-inches your band couldn’t even give ...   More