News In the last week I've received press releases for at least four burlesque nights, including the brand new Madison Moone's Burlesque Revue. There seems to be a bottomless appetite for topless dance with artsy pretensions in this town, and you can now see a fan-and-pasties show just about any night of the week. But none are nearly so appealing as the out-of-town Star Wars Burlesque featured over ...   More

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News Remember when Casey Jarman, WW music editor and Blazers blogger extraordinaire, wrote last month about some of the big men who Portland could acquire. The always-modest Casey included Chicago's Tyrus Thomas, writing that the only "downside" was "I'm the only person in the world who thinks this is a good idea." Turns out Casey wasn't. Here's what else the prescient Casey had to say about Thomas ...   More

News State Rep. David Edwards is one of the rising stars among the Oregon House Democrats—leadership selected him last year in his second term to sit on the powerful budget-writing Joint Ways and Means Committee. But the 43-year-old Hillsboro Democrat's ambitions also tilt toward the silver screen. Edwards, who studied screen-writing at the University of Southern California, has had two screenplays ...   More

News Mayor Sam Adams and City Commissioner Amanda Fritz, who oversees the city Office of Neighborhood Involvement, held a meeting last night that Adams hoped would air out “the positive, negative, and everything in-between” of Alberta's Last Thursday. Adams began the evening at the jam-packed Acadia Ballroom by informing people not to jeer, comment or clap at the testifiers. Asked instead ...   More

News Chael Sonnen, who's running for the Republican nomination in a suburban Portland district, got a big win on Saturday that had nothing to do with politics. The GOP hopeful in House District 37 (taking in parts of Washington and Clackamas counties) crushed his opponent in UFC 109 to get a shot at the middleweight title. And Sonnen also got a lot of attention to comments he made about mixed ...   More

News We came. We listened. And we laughed empathetically as locals learned far too much information about their co-workers, elected representatives, newspaper writers, radio jockeys and Portland nonprofit heads last night at the Bagdad. That's where eight brave, heartsick souls —including Multnomah County Commish Jeff Cogen, Live Wire's Courtenay Hameister and WW's own Aaron Mesh— shared ...   More

News Apparently, state Rep. Mike Schaufler (D-Happy Valley) is unhappy with the "process" and a bunch of other things as the Oregon Legislature starts its abbreviated legislative session this month. "I'm tired of talking," Schaufler says in the video (h/t to Oregon Politico) of this House Committee on Business and Labor hearing. "I've been processed to death for eight years in this building." Schaufler, ...   More