http://www.wweek.com/portland/articles.sec-720-1-.html Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT+7 en hourly 1 http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17593-tech_wizards_of_the_silicon_forest_the_aggressive_dork_ceos_spearheading_portland%E2%80%99s_startup_.html Luke Kanies believes he’s found the solution to Portland’s economic woes. Strike that: Luke Kanies believes he is the solution. “Two years ago, when I moved to town, people were like, ‘Oh, ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17017-children_of_a_higher_god_the_members_of_the_santo_daime_church_fought_for_the_right_to_drink_halluci.html Three times a month, the 39 members of the Church of the Divine Rose gather in a Portland VFW Hall at Southeast 9th ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16676-mock_star_carrie_brownstein_is_making_fun_of_you.html In her 10 years as a Portlander, Carrie Brownstein has been many things: a guitarist, an actress, a blogger, an advertising writer, a dog trainer and, most recently, the creator of a TV series...]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-11577-quake_up_call_theres_a_massive_earthquake_in_portlands_futuremdashand_a_government_ldprophet_of_doom.html http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18140-notes_from_the_occupation_48_hours_inside_occupy_portland.html DJ Nick is back. He needs to get out of here, because DJ Nick is trouble. He’s just one of the problem people the Safety/Peacekeeping Committee worries about in the Occupy Portland camps.  Th]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17989-professor_xbox_tom_bissell_is_portlands_finest_writer_why_is_he_spending_his_time_on_video_games_and.html I saw the best mind of my generation, and he asked me to watch a crappy movie. Tom Bissell is not a household name in Portland.
]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18935-mayoral_madness_let%E2%80%99s_pick_the_next_mayor_the_only_sane_way_with_a_bracket.html The most exciting thing happening in Portland this week is the NCAA Basketball Tournament’s arrival at the Rose Garden. The least exciting, this and every other week: the mayor’s race. We can ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18573-voodoo_child_doughnut_kingpin_tres_shannon_wants_to_make_the_whole_city_his_fun_park.html At 2:42 am, Tres Shannon decides we need to see if Occupy Portland has shut down the Port of Portland. It’s a Tuesday morning, 30 minutes after Shannon’s weekly set at Dante’s with his Kar]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19045-drink_2012_the_douchification_of_northwest_21st_avenue_.html It was my friend Christian Gaston, as it so often is, who first noticed the omen: a retractable belt barrier on the sidewalk of Northwest 21st Avenue. It was outside the latest location of the s]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18756-thai_hard_andy_ricker_takes_pok_pok_to_new_york_do_his_wings_have_a_prayer.html Pok Pok? The woman in the woolen hat mouths the words on the sidewalk in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where Andy Ricker has opened the latest outpost of his Thai-food realm. She scrunches ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-12645-jacked_up_ehren_mcghehey_is_portlands_resident_jackass_%28now_injured_in_3_d_%29.html http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19535-stop_the_presses_the_oregonian_may_not_be_a_daily_newspaper_much_longer.html The Oregonian as a daily newspaper is facing a final deadline. The 162-year-old newspaper—once considered one of the nation’s best—is losing readers and advertisers in a state where it dom]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18215-the_fall_of_the_420_hotel_in_the_final_hours_of_occupy_portland_there_was_mud_a_riot_squad_and_a_spe.html The final rumor to sweep through the ruins of Occupy Portland inflamed the holdouts in the 420 Hotel.  “They killed a puppy!” screamed a young man with a scraggly goatee and a black Army ja]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18986-what_the_muck_the_portland_harbor_is_a_toxic_embarrassment_and_there%E2%80%99s_plenty_of_blame_to_go.html In any good monster movie, the initial terror comes from knowing there’s something awful out there—even though you don’t get a good look at it.  It lurks in the shadows or just bene]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16954-peter_d_richardson_a_filmmaker_shows_how_to_die_in_oregon.html For a 31-year-old, Peter D. Richardson has spent an uncommon amount of time pondering—and filming—the end of life. Last month, the Portland director’s movie How to Die in Oregon was awarded th]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19962-who_killed_kpoj_many_see_a_right_wing_conspiracy_in_the_death_of_portland%E2%80%99s_commercial_progr.html Carl Wolfson’s last show on KPOJ-AM 620 sounded like victory.  For the past six years, Wolfson, a former standup...
]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-12348-the_geek_cure_portland_has_the_perfect_opportunity_to_lead_open_source_computing_and_transform_ameri.html http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19370-fahrenheit_4th_of_july_illegal_fireworks_are_exploding_in_oregon_portland%E2%80%99s_new_fire_chief_i.html You thought it was a victimless crime, a Portland rite of passage. You drive across the Columbia River, fill your trunk with powerful fireworks that are legal in Washington, and then smuggle the]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19508-when_stacks_attack_the_costly_multnomah_county_library_has_never_been_controversial%E2%80%94until_no.html The Central Library in downtown Portland is a gorgeous 1913 building with 17 miles of shelves, ornate marble staircases and an eco-roof planted with flowers. The flagship branch of the Multnom]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-12575-inside_job_watching_the_defective_financial_detectives.html If it’s impotent white-man rage you’re looking for this election season, and somehow you can’t find a tea party rally, may I suggest the spluttering bravado of a cornered academic ec ...]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19841-the_king_of_clackistan_timber_baron_andrew_miller_wants_to_turn_oregon_to_the_right_he%E2%80%99s_sta.html The rumble of raw logs bouncing through the sawmill’s machinery sounds like giants rolling strikes in a bowling alley. A metal lever thrusts...]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19687-block_busters_the_urban_density_charlie_hales_championed_has_arrived_on_division_street_why_isn%E2%8.html Judah Gold-Markel has trouble parking in front of his house these days.  He’s lived in his green bungalow on Southeast Sherman Street, two...]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19267-trimet_life_i_rode_for_three_days_and_242_miles_on_public_transit_here%E2%80%99s_who_i_met.html The No. 6 bus is doing just fine until the wheelchairs show up. A soaking Tuesday has cleared into afternoon blue skies. The southbound No. 6 leaves Jantzen Beach at 3:22 pm, so empty that passe]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17212-vie_de_boheme_winery_we_raise_our_glass_you_bet_your_ass_.html When Bacchus closes a brewpub, he opens a wine bar. In the sunken space that once housed Roots Organic Brewing, Vie de Boheme Winery (1530 SE 7th Ave., 360-1233, viedebohemepdx.com) continues serving]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17473-documentaries_about_death_.html How to Die in Oregon 92  [ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] If one of the afflictions of human life is being the only animal that knows it’s going to die, it is some small consolation to c]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17814-another_earth_it%E2%80%99s_like_someone_poured_bleach_in_my_eyes.html Oh, I cannot begin to tell you how much I despised this movie. Nah, I’m being overdramatic: I certainly can begin to tell you. I started loathing Another Earth exactly five minutes into the pictu]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18640-self_seriously_funny_portlandia_brings_back_pickling_and_other_hobbies.html The second episode of the second season of Portlandia revolves around a duo, played by Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen, engaged in the winter sport favored by most Portland couples]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19584-slow_ride_the_portland_streetcar_is_coming_to_the_east_side_but_records_show_it%E2%80%99s_too_broke_.html Last week, Mayor Sam Adams and about two dozen planners, consultants and other civic leaders took their first ride on the new eastside...]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19113-chicken_strip_club_two_medical_marijuana_rappers_are_making_their_chicken_and_waffles_into_the_best_.html Waffles are arguably the least interesting of J. Mack’s projects. Born James McClendon in 1967...]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16898-bed_bath_beyond__fuck_yeah__.html Beer and Movie opens a three-month revival showcase at the Laurelhurst with Team America: World Police, which is only 7 years old, but already looks like a relic from an obsolete political era. Mayb]]>