Elections We sincerely hope you will find our endorsements persuasive. But we would be remiss if we didn’t mention the mayor’s race includes another choice. Timothy Hutton, the people’s choice. Hu   More

News Timothy Hutton lives outside the law. Jody Stahancyk is a divorce lawyer. Now they are the last candidates standing in WW’s Mayoral Madness. How did this come to pass? We credit the political might of the 99 percent: Defying the fat cats—and what we assume is a reasonably svelte 6-ton pachyderm—you, the people, have chosen two candidates who rob from the rich to give to the poor (assuming that ...   More

News The intrepid Aaron Mesh has been hunting down our Mayoral Madness semi-finalists in real life, ambushing them at their places of work with a flip cam and an unquenchable thirst for the truth. You can see his revealing interviews with legal eagle Jody Stahancyk and University of Portland soccer wunderkind Micaela Capelle here. Yesterday, he managed to pin down 87-year-old Columbia Sportswear big ...   More

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Murmurs DIY taxidermist Emily Humphries, whom we featured last fall (see “The Right Stuffing,” WW, Sept. 21, 2011), says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating her under the Migratory Bird Tr   More

News We've reached the Elite Eight—last stop before greatness. But this week, we want to change it up a little bit. We've been pitting these mayoral candidates against each other, but do we really know who they are? Before you vote, an introduction. Jody Stahancyk won her first divorce case when she was 17 years old, getting Martin Sheen to admit on the stand that he had sought succor in the arms of ...   More

News We've reached the Elite Eight—last stop before greatness. But this week, we want to change it up a little bit. We've been pitting these mayoral candidates against each other, but do we really know who they are? Before you vote, an introduction. China Forbes is the lead vocalist for Pink Martini, having bonded with Thomas Lauderdale over a shared love of classical piano scales and Hardy Boys novels—mostly ...   More

News We've reached the Elite Eight—last stop before greatness. But this week, we want to change it up a little bit. We've been pitting these mayoral candidates against each other, but do we really know who they are? Before you vote, an introduction. The Paul Bunyan statue was erected in 1922 in Kenton as a prank, by a bevy of Reed College students intoxicated by sniffing the flowers of the sweet elm tree. ...   More

News We've reached the Elite Eight—last stop before greatness. But this week, we want to change it up a little bit. We've been pitting these mayoral candidates against each other, but do we really know who they are? Before you vote, an introduction. Mike Rice is the color commentator for the Portland Trail Blazers, though he has never sat through an entire basketball game. Most nights he just wanders ...   More

News In bracket politics, you better respect the sports fans. That's the takeaway from the Sweet 16 of Mayoral Madness, where Blazers broadcaster Mike Rice wiped the court with the once-cocky radio host Victoria Taft (she beat Carrie Brownstein, after all). Rice now takes on Oscar-winner Timothy Hutton, who continued his Twitter campaign past Patty, the Magic Garden bartender. University of Portland soccer ...   More