News Extras Only casting company is holding an open casting call Sunday, March 29, for "approx. 2,000 extras of ALL AGES and ALL TYPES" for a feature film, "Untitled Crowley Project," directed by Tom Vaughan (What Happens in Vegas). The film, about John (no relation to Aleister, pictured) Crowley's quest to find a cure for his children's Pompe Disease. The film, which features Harrison Ford, Brendan ...   More

News Want to track where all the stimulus money is going in Oregon? Heeding taxpayers' call for accountability and transparency, the state on Monday launched an Oregon Stimulus Reporting Map that details exactly where taxpayer stimulus dollars are being spent in Oregon. Phase 1 is up and running and shows spending breakdowns by county. Phases 2 and 3 will eventually detail specific project information ...   More

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News [youtube IynQCmqvXZs] In happier days, Portland lapped up the national love like Sally Field when we got acclaim from the rest of America. Now that the times have turned, so has the Times. Here's one among many "money quotes" in the latest take from The New York Times as to what our fair city represents: "...in recent months, Portland has devolved into a symbol of much that is wrong." ...   More

News Portland Center Stage announced layoffs yesterday, including an unknown number of 1.5 positions in the box office, one in IT and, most notably, the entire two-person literary management department. Literary Manager Mead Hunter and his assistant, Megan Kate Ward, are both out the door. This is bad news for a company that prides itself as an incubator for new work through the annual JAW playwrights ...   More

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News As noted earlier today, the crappy employment news for Oregon is coming quickly these days, so much so that now there's this unemployment news about Portland: Of the 49 metropolitan areas with a Census 2000 population of 1 million or more, Detroit-Warren-Livonia, Mich., and Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif., reported the highest unemployment rates in March, 14.0 and 12.9 percent, respectively. ...   More

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News When Saga City media staffers left on Friday, Paige Williams was Portland Monthly magazine's editor in chief. Today they found out they've got a new boss—sister publication Portland Spaces' editor Randy Gragg. But WW has confirmed that Gragg's not quitting Spaces, he's adding Portland Monthly on top of his current roster of duties at the Portland-based media company. And its not an interim ...   More

News Um, don't get too happy about the breathless headline. The latest national numbers are in for state unemployment rates, and they show Oregon's 12.1 percent unemployment rate is second-worst behind Michigan's 12.6 percent. Oregon's rate also ranks first in the biggest month-to-month jump, leaping 1.4 percentage points from February to March. The gory details are right here. A happy alternative ...   More