80 Million Paige Views

How an Oregon girl, her mother and a struggling local director turned their YouTube series into a major Hollywood deal.

Cover Story It’s a cloudy summer morning in Oregon wine country, and Paige McKenzie is taking a selfie that 18,000 people will see. With a FlipCam trained on herself, McKenzie—in red shorts, a gray zip-up ... More

Jul 30, 2014 12:01 am by REBECCA JACOBSON

Don't Bogart That Tax

Portland is looking to tax weed—even before voters legalize it.

Politics Come November, Oregon voters will decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana, giving the state the authority to regulate and tax weed sales. But Portland city leaders aren’t waiting to ... More

Jul 30, 2014 12:01 am by AARON MESH

Touring Portland's Bar Carts

Two years after food carts won the right to sell booze, we tour Portland’s bar carts.

Drank It’s easy to forget now, but booze carts were hard-won. Back in the spring of 2012, Cartlandia owner Roger Goldingay asked for an annual liquor license for his pod on Southeast 82nd Avenue. ... More

Jul 30, 2014 12:01 am by WW Staff

Scoop: Gone Swimmin’.

Scoop SO LONG, SHANE: Comedian Shane Torres is decamping to New York City, as WW first reported last week. The Texas-born Torres—runner-up in WW’s Funniest 5 and last year’s winner of Portland’s F ... More

Jul 30, 2014 12:01 am by WW Culture Staff

Hot Plates: Our Favorite Portland Restaurants This Week

Food Reviews & Stories 1. Kachka 720 SE Grand Ave., 235-0059, kachkapdx.com. This new, Soviet kitsch-bedecked Russian spot is vodka-drunk and fish-happy. But the best dish is beef-tongue stroganoff, which made o ... More

Jul 29, 2014 04:01 pm by WW Culture Staff

Show Preview: Kevin Gates, Chevy Woods,Th3rd & D3, Stevo the Weirdo

Music Stories [SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH] When first listening to a record by Louisiana rapper Kevin Gates, it’s pretty easy to pinpoint what makes him one of the most exciting young talents in hip-hop: the voice. ... More

Jul 30, 2014 12:01 am by REED JACKSON

The Pick Of The ’Thon

Pickathon’s must-see artists and the best stages to see them on.

Music Stories If the buzz around town is any indication, this is the most anticipated Pickathon in a long time, maybe ever. Incidentally, it is also perhaps the least rootsy lineup the festival has put togeth ... More

Jul 30, 2014 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Portland's Top Events This Week, July 30-August 5

Headout Picks THURSDAY JULY 31 TYCHO [MUSIC] Executing semi-danceable electronic dreamscapes live is difficult, but Tycho’s synth-laced, post-rock Miami Vice soundtrack comes with an intense psychedelic vid ... More

Jul 30, 2014 12:01 am by WW Culture Staff

Album Review: Eidolons

The Big Yellow Shirt/Hard Hang in a Deep Country (Self Released)

Album Reviews [WRY WIT] Delighting in slightly out-of-tune, jangled-up, country-infused rock, with a Portland vibe riding roughshod over the entire endeavor, Eidolons has split 30 minutes of music into two ... More

Jul 30, 2014 12:01 am by DAVE CANTOR

Hamlet & Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Anon It Moves and String House Theatre)

Shakespeare and Stoppard go head to head.

Performance When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, he probably never imagined his protagonist as a woman. It’s even more unlikely he imagined two of the play’s minor courtiers caught in existential crisis. But ... More

Jul 30, 2014 12:01 am by KATHERINE MARRONE

AP Film Studies: Acid-dropping nuns, Prince and dirt bikes

Screen AP Film Studies’ summer break continues, but once again there is homework. Please study these films, and when we return there will be a discussion of the Spielbergian implications of twee ja ... More

Jul 30, 2014 12:01 am by AP KRYZA

How an Oregon girl, her mother and a struggling local director turned their YouTube series into a major Hollywood deal.

Lawmakers are readying the state Capitol for a massive earthquake. They haven’t prepared Oregon schools.

Portland is looking to tax weed—even before voters legalize it.

These eccentric billionaires have the cash that could legalize pot in Oregon.

Your guide to Portland’s chillest summer party scene!

Two years after food carts won the right to sell booze, we tour Portland’s bar carts.

Our 50 Plates tour continues with Frito pie from Podnah’s Pit.

Check out Director Park, Salt & Straw and Hair of the Dog Brewing way back in the Bush years.

The Portland Business Alliance warned in February that cutting the ads could be a deal-breaker for the street fee.

Our Fifty Plates tour continues with stinky, homogenized blue from Iowa.

Check out Director Park, Salt & Straw and Hair of the Dog Brewing way back in the Bush years.

The Portland Business Alliance warned in February that cutting the ads could be a deal-breaker for the street fee.

The high-tech and film organization names Jenny Moede as interim director

Documents show Portland resident Yonas Fikre met with FBI before his arrest.

Portland has Earth's 23rd best quality of life. No other American city is pleasantly habitable.

Project Pabst brings Modest Mouse, Tears for Fears, GZA, Constantines on Sept. 26-28.

A playlist-assisted guide to the week's best concerts, July 23-29

From Wampire's pancakes to Myke Bogan's spliff, our favorite moments from this year's all-Portland music festival.

The psych-rock vets will perform Aug. 3 as part of Major League Soccer's All-Star Week festivities.

Our 50 Plates tour continues with Frito pie from Podnah’s Pit.

Our Fifty Plates tour continues with stinky, homogenized blue from Iowa.

Our 50 Plates Tour continues with an amazing Key lime pie from Palio on Ladd’s Circle

The 50 Plates tour continues with the Coney Island heart attack at Nick's and Roake's

The 50 Plates tour continues with hot-salty cukes at Crown Q

How an Oregon girl, her mother and a struggling local director turned their YouTube series into a major Hollywood deal.

Lawmakers are readying the state Capitol for a massive earthquake. They haven’t prepared Oregon schools.

Portland is looking to tax weed—even before voters legalize it.

These eccentric billionaires have the cash that could legalize pot in Oregon.

Your guide to Portland’s chillest summer party scene!

Two years after food carts won the right to sell booze, we tour Portland’s bar carts.

A college dropout leaves Portland to drop back in.

EDJ (Easy Sound)

Pickathon’s must-see artists and the best stages to see them on.

The Big Yellow Shirt/Hard Hang in a Deep Country (Self Released)

A former Portland musician and writer on the state of jazz right now.

Shakespeare and Stoppard go head to head.

Shakespeare is livin’ La Dolce Vita.