Getting Totally Hosed

A retired fire bureau official is still doing his former job—but he’s getting paid twice.

News Stories When Mark Schmidt retired from Portland Fire & Rescue in June 2012, shortly after picking up his 35-year pin, he didn’t actually go anywhere. In fact, although Schmidt began collecting a ... More

Mar 5, 2014 12:01 am by NIGEL JAQUISS

Burning The Bridge

An Oregonian editorial columnist bashed the CRC too many times. Now he’s an ex-columnist.

News Stories While a bill to revive the Columbia River Crossing clings to life in the Legislature, Brendan Monaghan’s brief career as an editorial columnist for The Oregonian is over—and it’s hard to esc ... More

Mar 5, 2014 12:01 am by NIGEL JAQUISS , AARON MESH

Headout: Vegan Taxidermy

The only thing more Portlandy than regular meat-based taxidermy.

Headout IMAGE: Ron UlicnyGO: Mounted, a taxidermy-themed group show, opens Friday, March 7, at Good: A Gallery, 4325 N Mississippi Ave., goodpdx.com. ... More

Mar 5, 2014 12:01 am by WW Staff

Headout Picks 3/5/14

Headout Picks WEDNESDAY MARCH 5 RUSSIAN CIRCLES [MUSIC] While Explosions in the Sky soundtracks fictional high-school football games, Russian Circles rewrites the score for the apocalypse. Memorial, the fifth ... More

Mar 5, 2014 12:01 am by WW Culture Staff

Jeremy Wilson: Saturday, March 8

A heartbroken Dharma Bum hits the road and restarts his career.

Music Stories At a glance, Empty Through Empty Space, the new album by Jeremy Wilson, has the backstory of a classic breakup record. Guy meets girl, he moves across the country to be with her, things fall apa ... More

Mar 5, 2014 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Drank Extra: Nagual De La Naga (Caduceus Cellars, 2011)

Music Stories This bottle of Arizona wine—yes, people are making the stuff in that arid land of intolerance—declares itself “big yet subtle and well balanced.” Kind of a bloodless description when you c ... More

Mar 5, 2014 12:01 am by JAY BENNETT

Scoop: Let’s Swarm Mike Reese’s Band’s Next Show.

Scoop CROWD CONTROL: Portland rapper Illmaculate stormed out of his own headlining show March 1 at the Blue Monk in Southeast Portland in protest over police presence at the gig. Officers, including membe ... More

Mar 5, 2014 12:01 am by WW Culture Staff

Spring Fevers

On a busy weekend of theater openings, illness strikes the stage.

Performance Normally, spring fever—the condition that turns us into restless little bunnies, with the sexual appetite to match—has nothing to do with actual disease. But that’s not a rule it seems Por ... More

Mar 5, 2014 12:01 am by WW Staff

Portland2014

Oregon only, please.

Visual Arts Where do you find the pulse of Portland? If you ask artsy types, they’re apt to direct you to Disjecta’s ambitious biennial exhibition, Portland2014. The nonprofit began mounting biennials i ... More

Mar 5, 2014 12:01 am by RICHARD SPEER

Murmurs: News Hotter Than a Battle Rapper.

Murmurs Multnomah County Circuit Judge Eric Bloch on March 3 moved the proposed $200 million Hyatt Hotel adjacent to the Oregon Convention Center one large step closer to reality. Bloch blocked downtown hotel ... More

Mar 5, 2014 12:01 am by WW Editorial Staff

Salute Her Shorts

Three decades on, Joanna Priestley’s animation is as inventive as ever.

Movie Reviews & Stories Joanna Priestley knows abstract animation can be intimidating. That’s why the independent animator chuckles as she sits before a sluggish Mac in her Northwest Portland studio and hits “play” ... More

Mar 5, 2014 12:01 am by REBECCA JACOBSON

AP Film Studies: Comedy’s Greatest Glue

Harold Ramis will live forever in our zingers.

Movie Reviews & Stories Harold Ramis was always the straight man. He was the voice of reason, the man who offered brief bits of levity in insane situations. But Ramis, who died late last month, was much more than the q ... More

Mar 5, 2014 12:01 am by AP KRYZA

New Flames

Angel Olsen has been singing her entire life. Only now has she found her voice.

Music Stories Angel Olsen made it clear at the start of her career that she wasn’t afraid to use her voice. Her solo debut, the 2011 EP Strange Cacti, was bare-boned, acoustic and raw, and highlighted b ... More

Mar 5, 2014 12:01 am by EMILEE BOOHER

McMinnville Italian joint is second America’s Classic in Oregon.

ODOT says it will shut project down by May 31

On a busy weekend of theater openings, illness strikes the stage.

A retired fire bureau official is still doing his former job—but he’s getting paid twice.

Clackamas County tycoon Terry Emmert is bringing pro football players to Portland. Why?

City Hall is looking at 21 new sites for a homeless camp. But only a few options are serious.

How does a Buffy parody play stack up against the 1992 movie?

UPDATE: PDC pledges $20 million for affordable housing

UPDATE: PDC pledges $20 million for affordable housing

Portland's Best Dance Music Options, March 7-12

Top selling albums and songs in Portland, Feb. 24-March 2

City Auditor's Office will conduct independent review.

The Portland rapper left his own show in protest.

Built to Grill is so good it's better than the French Laundry even after closing.

After 30 years, downtown Portland's Leo's Non-Smoking Coffee Shop is closing in a few hours

It's not an Oscar party without oatmeal cookies inspired by an AIDS drama!

Decades-old watering hole was famed for its goldfish races, noise complaints.

Says that the others "understood and went to another bakery."

Clackamas County tycoon Terry Emmert is bringing pro football players to Portland. Why?

A retired fire bureau official is still doing his former job—but he’s getting paid twice.

An Oregonian editorial columnist bashed the CRC too many times. Now he’s an ex-columnist.

City Hall is looking at 21 new sites for a homeless camp. But only a few options are serious.

Changes are percolating at Stumptown—literally.

The only thing more Portlandy than regular meat-based taxidermy.

A heartbroken Dharma Bum hits the road and restarts his career.

McMinnville Italian joint is second America’s Classic in Oregon.

Who paid for the interstate signs pointing to the Moda Center instead of the Rose Garden?

On a busy weekend of theater openings, illness strikes the stage.

Lou Reed, with white kimonos and candlelight.

Oregon only, please.

The Lionheart in winter.

Three decades on, Joanna Priestley’s animation is as inventive as ever.

Pledging allegiance.

Harold Ramis will live forever in our zingers.

Angel Olsen has been singing her entire life. Only now has she found her voice.