Willamette Weekend: 13 Things to Do in Portland, May 24-26

Features Friday, May 24 Skyping with Greta Gerwig [FILM] We don't know why or what it means, but Greta Gerwig wil... More

May 24, 2013 05:34 pm by WW Culture Staff
 
 

Change is Hard

Hales pledges to fight panhandling downtown. It’s not clear how he wins.

News No matter where he travels, the street kid known as Kidd always knows where he wants to end up. With... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by AARON MESH

The Hangover Mad Libs

Movie Reviews & Stories In the first Hangover sequel, writer-director Todd Phillips took the formula of his surprise... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Fantasy Island

Forget protecting birds and fauna: the Port of Portland’s plans for developing West Hayden Island don’t add up.

News Victor Viets and Mayor Charlie Hales have a lot in common. Both used to work for large... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by NIGEL JAQUISS

The Arts Ax

As You Pay your $35, some Portland schools will see fewer arts teachers than last year.

News Portland voters gave their blessing to a $35-a-person tax last fall on the promise... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by SARA SNEATH

Market Guide 2013: Introduction

Cover Story From the Editor In this Market Guide, we’re making a few assumptions. We... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE
 
 

Willamette Weekend: 13 Things to Do in Portland, May 24-26

Features Friday, May 24 Skyping with Greta Gerwig [FILM] We don't know why or what it means, but Greta Gerwig will by Skyping into screenings of her new (great!) film Frances Ha. Cinema 21. 7 pm Friday and Saturday.  Beaux Arts Club [THEATER] Imago co-founder Carol Triffle—who’s known for her fearlessness and absurdist sense of humor— presents an original black comedy about three bored 19th-century housewives whose teatime takes an unexpected turn when one woman traps a ma... More

May 24, 2013 05:34 pm by WW Culture Staff
 

Soriah Tour Diary: Stranded at Home

Portland's cab-driving, world-renowned throat singer checks in from Europe. Or he will, once he makes it there.

Music Local performer Enrique (Soriah) Ugalde is back on the road to Tuva—the southern Siberian republic that hosts a competition of Kh... More

May 24, 2013 04:18 pm by Matthew Singer
 

Flouride Legislation Rumor in Salem is "Crazy Talk"

News In the contentious run-up to Tuesday night's vote on Measure 26-151, which would have fluoridated Portland's water supply, one of the most intere... More

May 24, 2013 01:20 pm by NIGEL JAQUISS
 

Cut of the Day: "That Feeling," Beisbol

Music The Béisbol brothers, Jeff and Ryan Burian, have a knack for wringing the dampness out of Portland’s lingering late spring days. It's not surp... More

May 24, 2013 10:55 am by AMANDA SCHURR
 

Director of Multnomah County Health Department Arrested for Assault: Updated

News Lillian Shirley, the director of the Multnomah County Health Department, was arrested on Monday for alleged domestic violence.Shirley was booked ... More

May 23, 2013 12:24 pm by NIGEL JAQUISS
 
 

Market Guide 2013: Introduction

Cover Story From the Editor In this Market Guide, we’re making a few assumptions. We figure you know where you get your daily bread and your weekly milk (or rice milk, as the case may be). The decision to do ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Fantasy Island

Forget protecting birds and fauna: the Port of Portland’s plans for developing West Hayden Island don’t add up.

News Victor Viets and Mayor Charlie Hales have a lot in common. Both used to work for large engineering firms in Portland and both are boating enthusiasts who have lived in Columbia River condos near w ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by NIGEL JAQUISS

The Arts Ax

As You Pay your $35, some Portland schools will see fewer arts teachers than last year.

News Portland voters gave their blessing to a $35-a-person tax last fall on the promise the money would be used to restore arts and music to the city’s public schools. So imagine the surprise of ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by SARA SNEATH

Down to the Wire

CenturyLink wants to scrimp on maintenance in Oregon. Unions and utilities say it’s a bad idea.

News CenturyLink, the biggest provider of landline telephone and Internet service in Oregon, has made an extraordinary request of state regulators: Let us put off repair of utility poles for 10 years ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by NIGEL JAQUISS

Change is Hard

Hales pledges to fight panhandling downtown. It’s not clear how he wins.

News No matter where he travels, the street kid known as Kidd always knows where he wants to end up. With a ragged goatee and barely as tall as a sidewalk mailbox, Kidd, who is in his early 20s, says ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by AARON MESH

Top Five Compliments for Mumford & Sons

Top 5 Goudy Old Style looks pretty slick as an album font.Outdated? Psssh. Typography from 1915 is totally in right now. “Little Lion Man” proves radio edits don’t discourage inappropriate off-air la ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by BRANDON WIDDER

Lay Off the Sauce

No, Lake Oswego’s Pine Shed Ribs is not the best barbecue in Portland.

Food Reviews & Stories Earlier this month, Stephen Colbert’s sister lost a congressional election to philandering former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. In response, the TV host shunned his home state, declaring a ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR

Album Review: Gaytheist

Hold Me…But Not So Tight (Good to Die)

Album Reviews [PUNK METAL] As the Minutemen’s Mike Watt once observed, a good song title is worth a thousand lyrics. With Gaytheist, that advice is well-heeded: Lest anyone feel fatigued by the bulldozing pun ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Kargi Gogo

Food Cart Reviews Perhaps in keeping with their precarious geography, located at the Asian-European border between Turkey and Russia, Georgians are known both for their quick hospitality and equal speed at giving ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Headout: Primus Eye

Veteran thrash-funk outfit Primus brings a 3-D show to the Schnitz. Stare at this Magic Eye-like stereographic image until you’re there.

Headout  Click on the image for a larger version:GO: Primus 3-D is at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335, on Saturday, May 25. 7 pm. $42.50-$53. All ages.  ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by WW Culture Staff

The Boys In the Band, The Children’s Hour (Defunkt Theatre)

Queering the way.

Performance Gay culture seems to evolve so quickly that any snapshot is almost instantly antiquated. Offering a queer eye to a straight guy today is almost as passé as wearing an earring in your right ear. ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by AARON SPENCER

The Fireside: Warming Up

Bar Reviews For all its supposed trendiness, Northwest 23rd Avenue’s pub life is in a sad state. Especially before New Old Lompoc reopened recently, when Nob Hill Bar & Grill was the only barlike bar be ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR

Scoop: This Gossip Just Deleted Its Tumblr.

SCOOP CARPETBAGGING COMEDIANS: AMC’s new reality series Showville bills itself as a chance for small-town Americans to get a shot at stardom—easy pickings for city slickers like the two Portland comed ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by WW Culture Staff

Headout Picks 5/22/13

Headout Picks THURSDAY MAY 23 VAMPIRE WEEKEND [MUSIC] As everyone freaked out over the new Daft Punk record last week, the Columbia-educated foursome casually released its best album yet. Modern Vampires of t ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by WW Culture Staff

Album Review: Blue Cranes

Swim (Cuneiform)

Album Reviews [MOOD PIECES] There’s no way around it: Swim, the fourth album by local jazz institution Blue Cranes, is as heady and dark as anything the group has done in its six years together. The big cha ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by CASEY JARMAN

Laurie Notaro, The Potty Mouth at the Table

Concerning all those hobos and foodies.

Books What do you do about the hobos sleeping in the alley behind your house? It’s a very Portland problem, and one Eugene-based essayist Laurie Notaro tackles along with other uncomfortable moments o ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by KAITIE TODD

Murmurs: All the News That’s Fit to Read in a Loo.

Murmurs City Commissioner Steve Novick is ready to flush Portland’s toilet-sales department. The newest member of the City Council says the efforts to market the patent sidewalk commode known as the P ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by WW Editorial Staff

Dr. Know: Taxi Cab Confusion

What is the story behind Union Cab?

Dr. Know What is this Union Cab company, with its splashy periwinkle and orange sherbet-colored cars? Can Union be trusted? And who gave it permission to operate here? —Night Cabbie in SE Your signatur ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by MARTY SMITH

Brew Views: No

Say sí.

Brew Views During the 1988 election in Chile that led to the ouster of Augusto Pinochet, TV advertising played as major a role in the political process as traditional campaigning: For 27 days, each side ha ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by ROBERT HAM

Choose or Lose

Stressing over your Sasquatch schedule? Let us assist you.

Music Stories Festivals are a drain—not just physically, but mentally too. As if wading through a sea of tweens in feathered headdresses for four days wasn’t exhausting enough, the performance schedule of ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Epic

Seeing the forest for the trees full of tiny soldiers.

Movie Reviews & Stories The words “from the makers of Ice Age and Robots” and “starring the voices of Beyoncé, Pitbull and Steven Tyler” don’t exactly inspire confidence in a summer animated release. In fact, ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by AP KRYZA

The Hangover Mad Libs

Movie Reviews & Stories In the first Hangover sequel, writer-director Todd Phillips took the formula of his surprise mega-hit original, covered it in shit and pig’s blood, and came away with a mean, lazy, cash-grabbing ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Frances Ha

Girls, directed by Woody Allen and François Truffaut.

Movie Reviews & Stories People have been trying to figure out twentysomethings at least since Dustin Hoffman unzipped Anne Bancroft’s dress. In 2010, The New York Times Magazine ran a late-to-the-game article about a “ ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by REBECCA JACOBSON

Primer: Bolt Thrower

Music Stories Formed: In the loo of a pub in Conventry, England, in 1986.  Sounds like: An armada of Space Marines overtaking a battle cruiser full of Chaos Warriors. For fans of: Carcass, Napalm Death, Godf ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by NATHAN CARSON

Bombino: Sunday, May 26

A displaced Saharan guitar genius finds stability in stardom.

Music Stories  Omara Moctar has spent his life on the run. In 1990, at age 10, the Saharan-born guitarist, who grew up in an encampment of nomadic Tuaregs in northern Niger, escaped to Algeria wit ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Drank: Pipewrench IPA (Gigantic Brewing)

Drank One of the problems with the cutting edge of brewing is, you’re just as likely to get nicked yourself. Gigantic Brewing, with its eclectic array of brewing oddities and schizophrenic label des ... More

May 22, 2013 12:01 am by JORDAN GREEN

Seattle is Shopping for a Portland Loo

Enjoy WW's video tour of the $90,000 purchase

News Portland may have found a new market for its toilet exports: Seattle.Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn decla... More

May 16, 2013 08:01 am by Aaron Mesh
 
 

Portland Police Traffic Stop Goes Fowl

Mayor Charlie Hales has made it no secret he wants to cut spending at the Portland Police Bureau –... More

May 15, 2013 02:45 pm by ANDREA DAMEWOOD
 
 
 

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