Arts & Books In case you missed the newspaper ads, radio and TV spots, Internet flash ads, billboards and plastered buses and Max trains, Cirque du Soleil is back in town. This time around the French-Canadian circus is exploring the secret life of insects in a new show, dubbed OVO. Not for those with entomophobia, the show begins in a warm and humid tent with the sounds of buzzing, clicking and whirr...   More

Eat Mobile With more than 400 food carts selling their tasty goods within our city limits, Portland has become an international destination for mobile eats. U.S. News Travel recently declared Portland to have the "world's best street food."On April 28, Eat Mobile, the part food festival, part cart competition, will allow attendees to sample from nearly 50 of Willamette Week's favorite food carts as vendors compete for the coveted Carty Award.   More

News We'll be liveblogging the NCAA Tournament at the Rose Garden all day, right here. While you wait, work out who to cheer for in our "Should I Cheer for this College Basketball Team" Decision Tree.UPDATE 10:51 AM: Competitive basketball is being played at the Rose Garden. Better updates soon.10:58 AM: Welcome to soggy Portland, Oregon where the Davidson College Wildcats are attempting to avenge shoc...   More

Music I’ve listened to the four songs on Batmen’s 2010 demo hundreds of times since getting hipped to this mysterious (to me) Portland band early last year. During the months it took to log those hundreds of listens, I checked in on Batmen’s Facebook page once in a while to scope the scene, hoping for an update about new material, upcoming shows, t-shirts, head colds, whatever. But nope—nothing....   More

Promotions More than 350 people came out to compete in the second annual PDX Cartathlon!Working in teams, Portlanders raced around the city deciphering riddles and performing food-cart challenges.City buses were packed with Cartathlon participants in costumes, including the Anchorman-inspired Action News Team and the winner of the costume contest Cirque Du Souffle.After four hours of action, the top four teams went head-to-head in a deal or no deal meets Jeopardy and Double Dare final challenge to determine who would win the grand prize of free cart food for a year and a pair of Keen shoes for each member of the team.   More

News hello cyber world. testing testing hopefully this works. trevor solomon here a big miami heat fan from the seikaly pearl washington days till the championship (thanks dwayne) and to even last year when we were really close and lost out. this year feels like a mission i tell you 8 straight wins, a broken nose, and very nice lead in the east i think our heat is looking good. ok starting lineups. hea...   More

Music Portland’s Don’t came together late in the members’ musical careers, and the experience and quality of influences they all bring to the table in this collaboration is evident from 2011 album Away Away's first track, “Too Young.” The track opens with an understated, melodic and fuzzy guitar riff before singer Jenny Don’t begins a casual wail eerily similar to the mellow cadence found wi...   More

Music Portland photographer and WW contributor Megan Holmes, who is touring with Talk Normal and Zola Jesus, reports from the road in this special new tour diary series.Let me give you a little context to my life at the moment. I've been spending the last two weeks in a whirlwind called New York. I took photos of Ida, saw an outdoor Vivian Girls show sponsored by Kate Spade, joined my friend dancin...   More

News Tim Duncan looks sad here because he's not playing tonight. I'm sad about it, too. One of my last chances to see one of the all-time greats and he's not in the building? That's a bit of a bummer. Though, honestly, I think the Spurs have a better chance of beating the Blazers from their bench than with a coupla tuckered-out veterans. [UPDATE: I was really, really wrong about this and clearly know n...   More