http://www.wweek.com/portland/articles.sec-36-1-featured_stories.html Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT+7 en hourly 1 http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18184-24_hours_of_modern_warfare_3_six_million_modern_warfare_3_fans_can%E2%80%99t_be_wrong%E2%80%A6can_th.html About 24 hours ago, I started playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 online in the middle of the Willamette Week office. I have stopped for food, bathroom breaks and occasional unescapable professio]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18124-rat_bastard_stephan_pastis_draws_a_funny_newspaper_comic_weird_right.html Last week’s funny pages found Pearls Before Swine auteur Stephan Pastis, who draws himself into his strip as a slouchy chain-smoker with a goatee and a backwards ball cap, feuding with a 9-year-o]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18030-author__author__wordstock_writers_in_their_own_words.html This Saturday and Sunday, the Oregon Convention Center will be overrun by some 150 novelists, journalists, poets and cartoonists for the 2011 Wordstock book fair. The big names on the marquee inclu]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17775-best_of_portland_2011_then_now_.html 1985 - Best Pizza Thrower Dave Hite is something of a hero among working-class eaters. Before the bespectacled young man from Spokane, best known as the dapper saxophone player for the Fabulous K-T]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17776-best_of_portland_2011_best_sights_sounds_.html Best Multicultural Sports League The former British Empire can be criticized for a lot of things—plunder, slaughter, incest—but at sporting fields around the greater Portland area, you can also ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17777-best_of_portland_2011_best_places_.html Best Total Toolbox You hear it on the news, or you heard it from Michael Keaton in Gung Ho: America just doesn’t make things anymore. The cars and iPhones are all offshored or down-bordered, while]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17778-best_of_portland_2011_best_bites_nights_.html Best Cheap Date  After the second wettest spring on record, the sun is finally making brief public appearances in Portland. And so Portlanders are tentatively emerging from their holes, tattoos]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17779-best_of_portland_2011_best_reads_.html Best Divine Dilettantes If you’re in the market for a religious experience, Amanda Westmont and Joel Gunz might be able to lend you some wisdom. The pair has been attending a different Portland ch]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17782-best_of_portland_2011_best_people_.html Best FanIt’s the summer of the Timbers, as Portland’s new Major League Soccer franchise has finally replaced Portlandia and the Stumptown sale (but not the weather—never the weather) as the de]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17598-summer_guide_2011_go_play_outside_you_have_32_days_off_before_the_end_of_september_here%E2%80%99s_ho.html
]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17599-summer_guide_2011_go_stay_inside_when_the_mercury_swoops_up_into_the_triple_digits_at_the_end_of_jul.html SHOP AROUND A friend from Tucson used to spend hours wandering the aisles of grocery stores until it cooled down at night; this is also a good prescription for Portland’s dog days. I recommend the]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17600-summer_guide_2011_hikes_for_walkers_.html So, you like walking. You like it enough that you sold your car and get around exclusively by foot. But now you are faced with a cruel irony: Much as you love walking, hiking is now off limits. How ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17601-summer_guide_2011_go_uh_%E2%80%9Cplay%E2%80%9D_.html Ah, Portland: home to bicyclists, coffee connoisseurs, swingers, strippers, pole contortionists and gangbang aficionados. Wait, what? That’s right—this friendly Northwest town is also the home o]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17602-summer_guide_2011_a_whole_new_ballgame_.html If the smell of pine tar turns your crank, if you find the crack of a bat as audibly satisfying as a Typhoon album, or if you just like soaking up sun, then Northwest Independent Baseball League gam]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17603-summer_guide_2011_iced_coffee_five_ways_treat_your_caffeine_jones_with_a_chill_pill.html Don’t abandon that caffeine addiction you spent so much time and money cultivating over the winter just because the sun’s out. Here are five cool and refreshing ways to get your daily coffee fix]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17604-summer_guide_2011_on_dogway_the_where_to_pee_guide_to_portland_for_dogs.html Being a dog owner sucks during Portland winters. The wet fur, the muddy paws, the days upon days trapped indoors with a stir-crazy pooch...oh, the things we do for love. But come summer, Portland i]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17605-summer_guide_2011_patio_pointers_outdoor_drinking_for_every_occasion.html There’s no greater pleasure on a hot day than plopping down on your favorite bar’s patio and combating the heat while encouraging dehydration with round after round of cold beers and frosty coc]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17606-summer_guide_2011_summer_events_calendar_.html June 17-19: Portland Pride This year’s official theme is “Make It Happen!,” and the “it” is pride. Events include the Pulse dance party, Waterfront Festival, Dyke March, Pride Drag Race an]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17525-expose_yourself_to_bikes_the_mountain%E2%80%99s_out__time_to_air_up_the_10_speed.html Spring in Portland is a series of small victories. We celebrate the day every camellia blooms at once; the first dry weekend; the first day Mount St. Helens peeks through the mist.
]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17526-streets_of_death__stick_to_the_neighborhood_greenway%E2%80%94or_else.html The Portland Bureau of Transportation says the city is getting safer to bike in: Portland’s bicycle traffic increased 190 percent between 2000 and 2009, and accidents declined 39 percent, the bur]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17527-meet_the_cyclante_jim_parsons_is_making_your_commute_safer_one_sewer_grate_at_a_time.html In the past decade, Jim Parsons moved to Portland from Southern Oregon, lost his job as a travel agent and went back to school at PSU to study linguistics, where he’s currently a part-time student]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17528-the_paths_less_cycled_riding_portland%E2%80%99s_most_underrated_bike_routes.html Clinton. Salmon. Ankeny. Williams. Broadway. Even occasional cyclists recognize the names of Portland’s busiest bikeways. From bike lanes to cycle tracks and the clumsily named “neighborhood gr]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17529-who_rides_these_things_anyway_odd_pedal_powered_creations_and_their_loyal_devotees.html Take a close look at a row of bike racks anywhere in the city and you’ll see a diverse ecosystem of bicycles, from Wal-Mart beaters with ornamental suspensions to tricked-out commuter hybrids with]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17530-bikeasaurus_rex_three_term_metro_councilor_to_portland%E2%80%99s_elected_officials_get_off_your_asse.html Rex Burkholder, ever the environmentalist, is concerned about a new endangered species in Portland: the biking public official. Burkholder helped found the Bicycle Transportation Alliance and, as th]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17531-no_more_pink_pedals_the_portland_society_hopes_to_break_up_the_bike_industry_boy%E2%80%99s_club.html In the cycling world, “women-specific” can mean everything from pink jerseys to bicycles emblazoned with flowers—the phenomenon known as “shrink it and pink it.” But the Portland Society ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17532-bike_to_the_future_the_next_big_innovation_in_bicycle_design_is%E2%80%A6wood.html The funny thing about Ken Wheeler, owner of Portland bicycle manufacturer Renovo, is that he doesn’t seem terribly interested in the qualities that must attract many customers to the wooden bikes ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17533-drink_don%E2%80%99t_drive_bikebar_combines_portland%E2%80%99s_two_great_loves_bikes_and_beer.html The entrance to the temple is guarded by golden lions—or would be, anyway, if this were Las Vegas. But this is Portland, so the temple honors the gods of bikes and beer, and the lions are electri]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17534-low_bars_do_any_energy_bars_taste_good.html The “energy bar” market is estimated to be worth billions, and grocery store shelves are packed with aggressive-looking packets promising “maximum energy,” “lean muscle” and lists of in]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17535-upcoming_bike_events_.html June 4: Pioneer Century Described as “the Eden at the end of the Oregon Trail,” the 55-mile route on this ride will give you elevation gains of 3,087 feet. Rest stops, maps and road markings wil]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17456-behind_closed_doors_a_portrait_of_the_portland_storage_co_building_on_its_100th_birthday.html Open one of the 800 doors in the Portland Storage Company building, and you’re as likely to find the clutter
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