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Hey, doesn't a cheap night at a fancy restaurant sound good right about now? Aren't you excited that we told you all about Oregon Restaurant Week, which boasts deals at places like Bamboo and Sel Gris this week, in Wednesday's edition of WW? Well, too bad. We were wrong....   More

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Let Willamette Week make like Jesus and multiply your loaves and fishes to feed the multitude. We want you to share your favorite summertime recipes—legendary strawberry shortcakes, magnificent baby back ribs, Granny's potato salad&#8212...   More

Music When I dialed lusty glam rapper Mickey Avalon's coveted digits, I assumed I'd catch him in the throes of a coke-fueled orgy with platinum blonde Malibu junkies, and hoarsely be asked to call back later. Instead, he was in the car on the way home from Starbucks. Drinking a Frappucinno. With h...   More

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Even in a city with an abundance of good grub on the cheap, I often imagine what life would be like if the children's book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs weren't fiction. Free hamburgers would pile up on the hoods of cars with each gust of wind, and unlimited pancakes would tumble down from the heavens, drowning out the recession, eliminating world hunger, and keeping the whole planet f...   More

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The Mississippi Street Fair is the everyday culture clash of North Mississippi on acid. Any other day of the year, you can pick your way through blocks of fastidious gentrification bearing down on the few original local fixtures that remain, in the company of everyone from ...   More

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Being a grown-up sucks. Every year after the age of thirteen is a depressing downward spiral into responsibilities, body image issues, and shoes with laces instead of Velcro. Plummeting further away from the joys of childhood to perish in a khaki-colored, cubicle-shaped abyss, some lose hope and give in. But no...   More

News Drink to a good cause this Saturday, July 11, at Lompoc Brewing's Fifth Quadrant as they commemorate Oregon homebrewer Bob Farrell with the last beer he brewed before losing his battle with cancer. The Bob Farrell Braggot is a traditional braggot, half ale and half mead, finished in the fall of 2008 just before Farrell's death in the s...   More

News “The shaping of the landscape where we live can no longer be achieved by the traditional resources of town planning, urban design, and architecture. New ways must be explored, which are as yet unclear.”
-Thomas Sieverts, German urban planner
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Michael Hebb is a wild man. From his bizarre survival experiments in...   More

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Amidst a symphony of manly groans and hippie cheers, Portland welcomed Homegrown Smoker all-vegan barbecue pit to Last Thursday on Alberta. The hulking black smoker, bearing a deceptively hostile pirate flag, was tucked in a gravel lot on the corner of NE Alberta and 23rd alongside an old-fashioned popcorn machine and a keyboardist banging out a mournful rendition of Michael Jackson's R...   More

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The primal savagery of sucking the meat of your prey right out of its exoskeleton invokes the burly vigor upon which this country was built – thus the All-American appeal of the Louisianan crawfish boil. But alas, such carnivorous revelry is rare here in the Northwest, where tofu dogs exponentially outnumber Ball Park franks. One valiant culinary warrior, however, is brave enough to ...   More