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New PBOT Director is Leah Treat from Chicago

UPDATE: Treat helped instate Alta Bike Share at both of her previous posts.

News The Portland Bureau of Transportation has hired a new director: Leah Treat, the chief of staff in Chicago... More

Jun 18, 2013 12:05 pm by AARON MESH
 
 

Vanifest Destiny: Stealth Bomber

First rule of vandwelling: Don’t let anyone see you vandwelling.

Culture The cops may be on to me. It’s 10:30 on Monday night and I’m walking “home” to the van... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by PETE COTTELL

The Italian Market

Food Cart Reviews Some people have a problem with Philadelphia. How anyone could dislike the city that... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

No License To Vote

A bill tying voter registration to driver’s licenses is stuck in neutral.

Politics A bill that could register as many as 600,000 new Oregon voters is in danger... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by NIGEL JAQUISS

Bikelash

Mia Birk takes bike share to New York—and sparks bedlam in Gotham.

Cover Story Three weeks ago, an invading fleet arrived in Manhattan. Nearly 6,000... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by AARON MESH

Sick Report

State records reveal norovirus outbreaks are common in long-term care facilities.

Politics In January, the staff at Providence ElderPlace Glendoveer, a... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by ERIN FENNER
 
 

PDX Charts

Top selling albums and songs in Portland, June 10-16

Music Every week, we list the top selling albums from local record stores Music Millennium, Jackpot Records, Everyday Music and Beacon Sound, and the top streamed tracks in Portland on Rhapsody, for the previous week. This week's in-store performances are also listed below.MUSIC MILLENNIUM1. Black Sabbath—132. Boards of Canada—Tomorrow's Harvest3. Daft Punk—Random Access Memories4. The Builders & the Butchers—Western Medicine5. Queens of the Stone Age—Like ClockworkJACKPO... More

Jun 18, 2013 01:01 pm by MATTHEW SINGER
 

U.S. House Bill Would Make Funding for the Columbia River Crossing Even Tougher

News New legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives may put the Columbia River Crossing even further behind schedule.The U.S. House Appropriatio... More

Jun 18, 2013 12:45 pm by ANDREA DAMEWOOD
 

New PBOT Director is Leah Treat from Chicago

UPDATE: Treat helped instate Alta Bike Share at both of her previous posts.

News The Portland Bureau of Transportation has hired a new director: Leah Treat, the chief of staff in Chicago's transportation department. City Commi... More

Jun 18, 2013 12:05 pm by AARON MESH
 

David Douglas, Lake Oswego Among the One-Third of Oregon School Districts That Fail to Comply With State Anti-Bullying Laws

News One-third of Oregon school districts fail to comply with state anti-bullying laws, including three Portland-area districts, according to a new re... More

Jun 18, 2013 11:59 am by ASHLEY JOCZ
 

Kitzhaber Recommends Kendall Clawson To Be New OLCC Chief

News Gov. John  Kitzhaber has named Kendall Clawson, a key aide in his office, as his pick be the new director of the Oregon Liquor Control Commi... More

Jun 18, 2013 11:48 am by NIGEL JAQUISS
 
 

Sick Report

State records reveal norovirus outbreaks are common in long-term care facilities.

Politics In January, the staff at Providence ElderPlace Glendoveer, a residential care facility in Northeast Portland, responded with speed when patients at the 84-bed center started showing signs of norov ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by ERIN FENNER

Bikelash

Mia Birk takes bike share to New York—and sparks bedlam in Gotham.

Cover Story Three weeks ago, an invading fleet arrived in Manhattan. Nearly 6,000 cobalt-blue bikes appeared in gleaming silver docks. They materialized in Brooklyn, too, near co-ops and bodegas. Citizens ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by AARON MESH

No License To Vote

A bill tying voter registration to driver’s licenses is stuck in neutral.

Politics A bill that could register as many as 600,000 new Oregon voters is in danger of dying without a vote. The state’s top elections official, Secretary of State Kate Brown, wants anyone who gets a ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by NIGEL JAQUISS

Hotseat: Keighley Overbay

Schools Earning a diploma from Benson Polytechnic High School is serious business. In addition to passing the standard classes in history, English, math and science, Benson’s graduates must complete h ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by RACHEL GRAHAM CODY

Pass The Sniff Test

If you’re just looking at the roses, you’re missing half their charm.

Culture All roses look pretty, but not all roses smell pretty. Any schmuck can admire the petals, but those who want to enjoy the sweet smell have to be a little more strategic about things. Portland is ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by KAITIE TODD

Last Season, On The Real World

The deadliest sins of seven strangers who stopped being polite long, long ago.

DVD & TV Portland, The Real World is over. On Wednesday, June 12, MTV will air the final hour of the Stumptown season, as well as the customary reunion. As you may have seen over the past 11 weeks—thou ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by JAY HORTON

I’m Getting Too Old for This Pit

Who’s playing Warped Tour? Beats us. So we went to the mall to find out.

Music Stories Nothing makes a 30-year-old music writer feel like a decrepit, out-of-touch sack of dust more than scanning a Warped Tour lineup. The hordes of pierced, tatted and asymmetrically coiffed mall-pu ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Top Five Bands Too Old To Be Playing Warped Tour

Top 5 Reel Big Fish (pictured)Ska is overdue for another ironic revival, but until it actually happens, the average Warped-goer is going to wonder what the paunchy Ace Ventura impersonator playing music ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

The Italian Market

Food Cart Reviews Some people have a problem with Philadelphia. How anyone could dislike the city that gave us Questlove and the Allen Iverson “practice” speech is beyond me, personally. Maybe it has to do wi ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Breakfast Like a King

Now 35 years old, Bijou remains Portland’s top power breakfast.

Food Reviews & Stories Much of this city's shape was determined within the walls of Bijou Cafe. Not just inside the kitchen of the stalwart bruncherie, one of the first Portland restaurants to push organic and local prov ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR

Murmurs: Testing Hales, On Civil Rights And Police Reform.

Murmurs Mayor Charlie Hales faces a decision about what to do regarding Baruti Artharee, his chief public safety adviser and liaison to the Police Bureau. As first reported on wweek.com, Artharee has ac ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by WW Editorial Staff

SCOOP: The NSA Knows Where This Gossip Came From.

SCOOP THE NEW IAN KARMEL: Shane Torres—who describes himself as looking like a “Native American Meatloaf impersonator”—was named Portland’s new funniest person over the weekend. The comedian t ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by WW Culture Staff

The Oregon Public House: Pour of Spirit

Bar Reviews The Oregon Public House (700 NE Dekum St., 828-0884, oregonpublichouse.com) certainly has a catchy slogan: “Have a pint, save the world.” The Woodlawn neighborhood watering hole, whose opening ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by REBECCA JACOBSON

Vanifest Destiny: Stealth Bomber

First rule of vandwelling: Don’t let anyone see you vandwelling.

Culture The cops may be on to me. It’s 10:30 on Monday night and I’m walking “home” to the van where I’ve lived for a week. I’ve got one eye on a police cruiser as a black-and-white Radio Cab ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by PETE COTTELL

Alien Boy

Man of Steel makes clear Superman just wasn’t made for these times.

Movie Reviews & Stories Seventy-five years ago, as the Greatest Generation geared up to save the planet from tyranny, a figure of Christ-like perfection standing up for Earth’s right to exist was precisely what pop cul ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Before Midnight

After dark, the love is no longer blind.

Movie Reviews & Stories In Before Sunrise, the 1995 film about two young travelers who spend a night together in Vienna, the American Jesse (Ethan Hawke) says he views himself as a perpetual 13-year-old boy. Celine (Ju ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by REBECCA JACOBSON

Book Review: Tai Pei, by Tao Lin

Hit refresh again

Books As you read Tao Lin’s latest novel, Taipei (Vintage Contemporaries, 250 pages, $14.95, ), you will know when a character leaves to go to the bathroom. You will know when a character goes to Ur ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by KAITIE TODD

Somewhere In Time (Portland Center Stage)

Let’s do the time warp again.

Performance Between writer’s block and a brain tumor, Richard Collier’s head is in bad shape. He has fled to a hotel in Michigan, where he stumbles on a portrait of a breathtaking starlet from some 60 y ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by REBECCA JACOBSON

Drank: Apple Beer (Buckman Botanical Brewery)

Drank The boundaries between beer and cider are blurring. Cidermakers now add hops to their libations; brewers pour apple juice into their beer (or, in the case of Redd’s Apple Ale, made by MillerCoors, � ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by REBECCA JACOBSON

Flashback: 31Knots

New York warehouse space, 2004

Music Stories Portland music-scene fixture Joe Haege returns this week to premiere new 31Knots songs—which his own bandmate, Jay Winebrenner, will be hearing for the first time and giving commentary on from ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by WW MUSIC STAFF

This Is the End

The end is nigh.

Movie Reviews & Stories With the underrated and misunderstood Pineapple Express, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny McBride and co-screenwriter Evan Goldberg made a rock-solid American counterpart to Shaun of the Dead and Hot F ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by AP KRYZA

Brew Views: Clash of the Titans

Brew Views EFFECTS MASTER: Had the late Ray Harryhausen never broken into cinema, we probably wouldn’t have the world of movies we do today. From his breakout in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) all the way ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by AP KRYZA

Reiterations and Rifts

Pretty but deadly.

Visual Arts Toxins and microbes and spores traveling through the air, wreaking havoc: It’s a phenomenon as ancient as the great historic plagues and as current as ricin-laced letters. But put any of these ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by RICHARD SPEER

Summer Splendors (Northwest Dance Project)

The new and the old, inside and out.

Dance “Intimate” might seem disingenuous when a dance company uses it to promote a show in a small space—much like how real-estate agents use “cozy” to describe a kitchen that’s actually cra ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by AARON SPENCER

Headout: Portland Pride Bingo

Headout GO: Portland Pride runs Wednesday-Sunday, June 12-16. The Portland Pride Parade is at 11 am Sunday, June 16, in downtown Portland. See pridenw.org for details. BY AARON SPENCER. ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by AARON SPENCER

Dr. Know: Man's Best Temp

Dr. Know They’ve taken down the “Temporary Dog Play Area” signs at Northwest 12th Avenue and Overton Street. Now where do I take my temporary dog to play? She’s not much of a dog, but she’s all I ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by MARTY SMITH

Album Review: Space Waves

You Can Ride A Beam Of Light Like A Musical Strum (Mindwave)

Album Reviews Space Waves bassist-vocalist Sarah Bourland unwittingly sums up the entirety of her band’s second full-length a mere 25 seconds into the song “Underworld”: “Nothing’s quite wrong/But it� ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by ROBERT HAM

Marisa Anderson: Sunday, June 16

For a rootless roots musician, words are very unnecessary.

Music Stories Somewhere on Marisa Anderson’s résumé is the phrase, “Once portrayed the ass-end of a jaguar.” It was the mid-1990s, a few years after the Northern California-born guitarist dropped out ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Album Review: Kelli Schaefer

601 (Amigo/Amiga)

Album Reviews "The mouth is an open wound,” sings Kelli Schaefer on her new EP, and the 28-year-old Portland enchantress lets hers bleed all over these four spectral songs. On 601, Schaefer’s already unado ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Headout Picks: 6/12/13

Headout Picks WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12BIKE SMUT 7[PORN] Ever want to watch someone have sex with a bicycle? On a bicycle? The Bike Smut amateur sex film fest (bikeporntour.blogspot.com), in its seventh year, is dubious ... More

Jun 12, 2013 12:01 pm by WW Culture Staff
 

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