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Oswego Lake Access Issue Heads to Federal Court

Lawsuit says the city has a responsibility to “protect and preserve the public’s right of access to and use of the Lake.”

News A federal judge may decide if Oswego Lake is open to the public. A lawsuit filed this morning in U.... More

May 24, 2012 01:16 pm by Martin Cizmar
 
 

Where the Tech is She?

Portland’s software industry is booming. So where are all the women?

Cover Story On a warm morning last June, Mayor Sam Adams stood in front of a crowd of computer geeks at the Eliot Center in downtown Portland... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by RUTH BROWN

What Money Can’t Buy

Portland’s mayoral primary had something to teach everyone about Rose City politics.

News Fresh off his May 15 primary victory, mayoral candidate Charlie Hales fired most of his staff last week. As a gesture of... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by NIGEL JAQUISS , COREY PEIN

Just the Twos and Us

Will Smith sequels more necessary than Men in Black III.

Movie Reviews & Stories Something is terribly wrong with the world when we’re getting a third Men in Black movie and still don’t know what happened after... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER, AP KRYZA

Killer Kitsch

Guantanamo Baywatch mines the dirty intersection of surf rock and punk.

Music Stories Chevelle Wiseman had never played bass when she agreed to be the bassist for Guantanamo Baywatch, a handicap she overcame by... ... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by SHANE DANAHER

Reelin’ In The Years

The state’s biggest teachers union believes in seniority— just not for its own employees.

News Becky Corkill got laid off May 15.  Corkill, 53, works for the Oregon Education Association, the state’s biggest teachers union. She drove from her Klamath Falls home to the OEA’s Portl ... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by NIGEL JAQUISS
 
 

Oswego Lake Access Issue Heads to Federal Court

Lawsuit says the city has a responsibility to “protect and preserve the public’s right of access to and use of the Lake.”

News A federal judge may decide if Oswego Lake is open to the public. A lawsuit filed this morning in U.S. District Court in Portland seeks to force Lake Oswego, Oregon’s wealthiest city, to open its namesake lake for public access. (You can read the suit here.)The lake was declared open to the public by the state attorney general way back in 1959, but it's been dealt with as if it belongs to private country club, the Lake Oswego Corp., run by homeowners along the shore who pay annual dues. Thoug... More

May 24, 2012 01:16 pm by Martin Cizmar Comments 6
 

Literary Giant Dies In Oregon

Arts & Books Paul Fussell was a great writer and scholar and, in the three years before his death yesterday, an Oregonian.Obituaries are beginning to appear a... More

May 24, 2012 11:14 am by COREY PEIN Comments 1
 

Market Watch: Enslaved by the Bell at Shemanski Park

Food & Drink The scene at the farmers market starts long before the crowds show up.On a sunny Wednesday morning, vendors at the Shemanski Park farmers marke... More

May 24, 2012 10:56 am by Kimberly Hursh Comments 0
 

Upper Extremities #40: Memorial Week at the Know

Music Today marks the beginning of the Know’s stacked Memorial Week series, which will find Portland’s punk hub hosting seven essential shows in as... More

May 24, 2012 10:30 am by CHRIS STAMM Comments 0
 

Oregonian's Sister Paper To Cease Daily Publication; Updated

News In another sign of the difficult financial realities for print newspapers, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, a sister paper of The Oregonian, will ... More

May 24, 2012 09:20 am by NIGEL JAQUISS Comments 1
 
 

Reelin’ In The Years

The state’s biggest teachers union believes in seniority— just not for its own employees.

News Becky Corkill got laid off May 15.  Corkill, 53, works for the Oregon Education Association, the state’s biggest teachers union. She drove from her Klamath Falls home to the OEA’s Portl ... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by NIGEL JAQUISS

What Money Can’t Buy

Portland’s mayoral primary had something to teach everyone about Rose City politics.

News Fresh off his May 15 primary victory, mayoral candidate Charlie Hales fired most of his staff last week. As a gesture of... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by NIGEL JAQUISS , COREY PEIN

Scoop: Virtual Bottle Shops and a Farewell to Ben

Gossip reconsidering plans for our IPO.

SCOOP CZECH, PLEASE: When Enzo Lanzadoro, owner of Enzo’s Caffe Italiano on Northeast Alberta Street, heads back to Italy on vacation this weekend, his restaurant will go with him. For three weeks, ... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by WW Culture Staff

Murmurs: Re-read Some Award-Winning WW Journalism

Big names—and money—behind university reform.

Murmurs Some powerful interests want to light a fire under lawmakers who are considering giving the seven campuses of the Oregon University System more autonomy. As first reported at wweek.com, five men, incl ... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by WW Editorial Staff

Just the Twos and Us

Will Smith sequels more necessary than Men in Black III.

Movie Reviews & Stories Something is terribly wrong with the world when we’re getting a third Men in Black movie and still don’t know what happened after... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER, AP KRYZA

It’s Bill Plympton Day!

Celebrating Portland’s master of grotesque.

Movie Reviews & Stories Even in a town known for incubating distinctive animation talents, Portland-born Bill Plympton is special. Not only is he one of the most iconic animators currently working—his work is recogniza ... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Chevre Off

Food Reviews & Stories We had wine on our minds. Then we got a little hungry, so we staged a raid on the cheese case at Irvington’s Foster & Dobbs specialty foods store. What should you pair with an Oregon pinot ... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by KIMBERLY HURSH

Headout: Wine & Wag

The life of a veteran Oregon wine dog.

Headout Before people buy your wine, they want to pet your dog. Alex Sokol Blosser has accepted this. “I don’t know why—it’s gotta be that when you go to a farm, you expect to see a dog,” he s ... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR

Free House: Victory Provisions

Bar Reviews Under the watchful eyes of Abraham Lincoln in two slightly creepy paintings on the walls of Free House (1325 NE Fremont St., 946-8161), a dozen or so drinkers maintain a vibe of laid-back camaraderi ... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by PENELOPE BASS

Drank: Building Block

Drank  In 1965, a young upstart arrived in Oregon “with 3,000 grape cuttings and a theory.” As the story goes... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by RUTH BROWN

Killer Kitsch

Guantanamo Baywatch mines the dirty intersection of surf rock and punk.

Music Stories Chevelle Wiseman had never played bass when she agreed to be the bassist for Guantanamo Baywatch, a handicap she overcame by... ... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by SHANE DANAHER

Mbilly: Saturday, May 26

William Helfrich tries to untangle his past and makes his best album in the process.

Music Stories [SINGER-SONGWRITER] William Helfrich woke up one morning a few years ago and realized he was a grown-up. It was something none of his previous life experiences—not going to college, not holding ... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by CASEY JARMAN

Laura Ross-Paul at Froelick Gallery

Hang up and look!

Visual Arts “Live in fragments no longer,” E.M. Forster urged in Howards End. “Only connect.” Today, 102 years after the novel was published, we increasingly connect by tweeting, streaming and texti ... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by RICHARD SPEER

Matt Love, Sometimes a Great Movie

Not this time a great book.

Books Sometimes a Great Movie: Paul Newman, Ken Kesey and the Filming of the Great Oregon Novel (Nestucca Spit Press, 158 pages, $30) is a failure. Harsh words, but its author might agree. Matt Love, a ... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Album Review: Tragedy

Darker Days Ahead (Self-Released)

Album Reviews [CRUST PUNK] Tragedy is justly revered the world over for its dense and crepuscular take on crust punk, but an album-length masterpiece has eluded this staunchly DIY Portland quartet since its 2 ... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by CHRIS STAMM

Album Review: Arjay

Love Strong (Self-Released)

Album Reviews [HOMETOWN R&B] Arjay lives, like many urban singers of his generation, at the intersection of hip-hop and R&B. If you know his name, it’s probably from the former: The Portland staple ha ... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by CASEY JARMAN

Dr. Know: Snoop Out the Vote

Is it legal for election authorities to disclose who has voted and who has not?

Dr. Know Recently, I was unnerved that a canvasser who called my house seemed to know that my roommate hadn’t voted yet. Is it legal for election authorities in Oregon to disclose to individual campaigns ... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by MARTY SMITH

First Position

Moppets in motion.

Movie Reviews & Stories According to one expert in First Position, the keys to making it in the cutthroat world of ballet are “body, training, passion, personality.” Freshman director Bess Kargman manages to find s ... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Willamette Geek: The Week in Geek

7 awesomely nerdy things to do, May 21-27

Features WW's weekly round-up of the nerdy events happening around Portland over the next seven days:Monday, ... More

May 21, 2012 04:12 pm by Ruth Brown
 
 

The It List: The Top 10 Things in Portland and the World

Features Each week our culture scientists rank their 10 favorite things in the universe. The resulting list i... More

May 21, 2012 05:09 pm by WW Arts And Culture Staff
 
 
 

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