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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

So much music (especially this week). So little page space. Here are some shows we missed in this week's print edition.

Ray Manzarek is gone, but is Jim Morrison still with us...and living in rural Oregon?

Eugene-based Chez Ray, the Dead's cook, now roasting beans.

Beloved Lompoc Tavern re-opens on Northwest 23rd Avenue. Here are all the ways it is different from the Old New Old Lompoc.

Sculptor Was Paid for Image on Local Brewery's Label.

Thus cementing its shark-jumping obsession with Portland

And it [UPDATE x 2!] looks OK or not so good, depending on which is which.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Queering the way.

Swim (Cuneiform)

Concerning all those hobos and foodies.

What is the story behind Union Cab?

Say sí.

Stressing over your Sasquatch schedule? Let us assist you.

Seeing the forest for the trees full of tiny soldiers.

Girls, directed by Woody Allen and François Truffaut.

A displaced Saharan guitar genius finds stability in stardom.

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