News In an effort to assess Portlanders’ actual enthusiasm for electric cars, Portland State University is conducting a survey about them—and they are dangling the possibility of winning prizes if you take part.People filling out the survey—which seeks opinion about cars and foreign oil—are put into a raffle to win an all-electric weekend.The winner gets a to drive a Nissan Leaf—the first completely ...   More

News A troubling report at OMSI involving a 34-year-old man and a 10-year-old girl has led to a scheduled court appearance tomorrow for the man. Jose Enrique Arroyo was arrested on Mar. 7 on two counts of sex abuse, and two counts of harassment after he allegedly grabbed the girl in an OMSI chemistry lab. The girl's 43-year-old father tells WWire that his daughter was leaning over a table in the ...   More

News OMSI's warehouse-sized new exhibit, CSI: The Experience, prominently features a mock-up of a seedy alley strewn with a bag of cocaine (or possibly MDMA, only forensic analysis will tell) and a woman with tire treads imprinted across her torso. Though it may be stretching the limits of kid-friendly, The Experience acknowledges OMSI's kid clientele by wisely excising most of CSI's television sheen ...   More

News It's been weeks since you took your reptile out on the town, and he's starting to complain that the two of you never go anywhere. It's a good thing the 24th annual Reptile and Amphibian Show is coming up this Labor Day weekend at OMSI, where you're invited to BYOBearded Lizard to one of the largest gatherings of reptiles and amphibians in the Pacific Northwest. Introduce your scaly companion ...   More