Put a Label On It

It’s Oregon’s turn (again) to debate the labeling of GMO foods.

News Stories There’s much to talk about in Ashland—a southern Oregon winter so dry that, for the first time in 50 years, the local ski mountain failed to open, or the fare at this year’s Oregon Shakespea ... More

Apr 16, 2014 12:01 am by NIGEL JAQUISS

The Second Season

The Blazers return to the NBA playoffs for the first time since 2011. Here’s how they stay there.

Sports Last weekend, the Portland Trail Blazers played the best game of their surprisingly good season. Their April 13 overtime win over the Golden State Warriors and their crazy-hot shooting guard Ste ... More

Apr 16, 2014 12:01 am by MIKE ACKER

Candylands Before Time

The last two drugstore soda fountains in Portland.

Food Reviews & Stories Sandy Boulevard is the Bob Barker of Portland thoroughfares, the one street that time has chosen not to visit. There are now only two old-time drugstore soda fountains left in Portland, and both ... More

Apr 16, 2014 12:01 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Hurray for the Riff Raff: Saturday, April 19

Alynda Lee Segarra may have settled down, but her music hasn’t.

Music Stories [FOLK] Alynda Lee Segarra admits she’s gotten soft. Once a teenage vagabond, who left home before she was old enough to vote and spent time hopping freight trains and hitchhiking around the co ... More

Apr 16, 2014 12:01 am by KAITIE TODD

Murmurs: All The News We Wrote While The Sun Was Out.

Murmurs Proponents of an initiative to ban public funding for abortions are employing a novel tactic: The group’s website, Oregon2014.org, allows users to search for the names of people who have signed th ... More

Apr 16, 2014 12:01 am by WW Editorial Staff

Holy High Day

Your 4/20 concert guide.

Music Stories What is 4/20, anyway? Theoretically, it’s unofficial National Marijuana Appreciation Day, but that implies those who observe it don’t appreciate the shrubbery of the gods every other day of th ... More

Apr 16, 2014 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Introducing...: Phone Call

Music Stories Who: Bailey Winters (vocals, drums, bass, production), Johnny Zeigler (keyboards, drums, bass, production). Sounds like: The disco love child of R. Kelly and Flight of the Conchords. For fans ... More

Apr 16, 2014 12:01 am by GRACE STAINBACK

Anonymous Women, Eva Lake

Independent women, part 3.

Visual Arts Don’t you just love it when poetic men insist that women are stand-ins for something other than, well, women? Shakespeare famously compared his lady love to a summer’s day, while Lord Byron ... More

Apr 16, 2014 12:01 am by RICHARD SPEER

Album Review: Sleep

Oregon Failure (Oldominion)

Album Reviews [PO-HOP] On the first verse of “Rap Rehab,” a playfully introspective track on Oregon Failure, the newest album from Portland MC Sleep, the 37-year-old poses a question that most rappers undou ... More

Apr 16, 2014 12:01 am by REED JACKSON

Headout Picks 4/16/14

Headout Picks WEDNESDAY APRIL 16 DJ QUESTLOVE [MUSIC] Ain’t no party like a Questlove party ’cause at a Questlove party, you might learn something. The new Tonight Show bandleader is a walking music encyclope ... More

Apr 16, 2014 12:01 am by WW Culture Staff

Sabrosa Barbosa

Food Cart Reviews Silvia Barbosa asks only two questions when presented with indecisive customers at Sabrosa Barbosa: “Are you a vegetarian?” (No.) “Do you like spicy foods?” (Yes.) If those are your answer ... More

Apr 16, 2014 12:01 am by LAURA HANSON

Drank: Barrel-Aged Night Cap (Coalition Brewing)

Drank In dark porters and stouts, coffee typically reads as rich and bitter. But some of the most refreshing flavors in coffee are those bright, fruity notes you get from lighter roasts or cold-presse ... More

Apr 16, 2014 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR

Dynamic Duet

On and off the dance floor, Portland sisters Kiera Brinkley and Uriah Boyd know when to push one another.

Dance As sisters, Kiera Brinkley and Uriah Boyd know siblings don’t get anywhere by being babied. So even as they look out for each other, they won’t hesitate to make the other do things for herse ... More

Apr 16, 2014 12:01 am by AARON SPENCER

On and off the dance floor, Portland sisters Kiera Brinkley and Uriah Boyd know when to push one another.

Part 4: "He bled through the pen"

How much would a brewpub pay into the new transportation fee? $604 a month.

The fight for justice for Oregon’s transgender inmates.

The Blazers return to the NBA playoffs for the first time since 2011. Here’s how they stay there.

The last two drugstore soda fountains in Portland.

A playoff series win against an old opponent fits the Blazers' season narrative quite nicely.

A playoff series win against an old opponent fits the Blazers' season narrative quite nicely.

The Blazers won their first playoff game in three years. You never would have known from TNT's post-game show.

Portland's Best Dance Music Options, 4/17-23

Now with new, improved, shorter lines at the carts!

The brewer will open a brewpub at 1411 NW Flanders, in the Mellow Mushroom Pizza Space

Troubled South Waterfront fine dining spot lasted almost 14 months

Plus, more bikes and brews

The fight for justice for Oregon’s transgender inmates.

It’s Oregon’s turn (again) to debate the labeling of GMO foods.

A new law expanding the use of an anti-overdose drug is cutting the number of heroin deaths.

The Blazers return to the NBA playoffs for the first time since 2011. Here’s how they stay there.

A restrictive new state law that led to the temporary closure of medical marijuana dispensaries taught us a lesson we should have already known.

The last two drugstore soda fountains in Portland.

The incredibly stupid Heavy Metal is essential 4/20 viewing.

Alynda Lee Segarra may have settled down, but her music hasn’t.

There’s a ghost in the machine.

Pretty boy turns petty; preaches with poetry.

Your 4/20 concert guide.

by Risky Star

No lifeguard on duty.

Independent women, part 3.

A sentence of sorts in Kornsá.

Oregon Failure (Oldominion)

Wrestling Church is spending Easter Sunday preaching the Gospel of the Squared Circle. Here’s a primer on the real global game.

On and off the dance floor, Portland sisters Kiera Brinkley and Uriah Boyd know when to push one another.