News Have you gotten any great photos during the big flakeout? Share them with the class in WW's Flickr group (flickr.com/groups/wweek)! We'll post more as they come in. Broadway Bridge, Dec. 22 (cue theme to Taxi, muffled by a foot of snow) Backyard barometer, Dec. 22 Rose City Golf Course, Dec. 20 Wellington Park, Dec. 21: The tree falling across Northeast Mason Street missed the ...   More

News Remember when you first moved to Portland and people were incessantly suggesting you partake in various events? “Oh, you'll have to go crabbing with us!” “Oh, you'll have to go see the wildflowers on such-and-such mountain!” “You simply must go to this lake and go fly fishing!” There are a few assumptions hidden within those statements. The first is that ...   More

News Do you mean to tell us that after your dinner, movie, flowers, candles and chocolates, you have even MORE plans? Yeah, we didn't think so. So drag yourself out of bed, throw on whatever leopard-skin furs you have lying around the house (waterproof ones, preferably) and head down to the Lucky Labrador Brew Pub (915 SE Hawthorne Blvd.) on Sunday, Feb. 15th for the Worst Day of the Year Ride. 3,000 ...   More

News Sometimes, I find myself in the awkward position of having to explain certain things to my sedate suburban mom. "Why on earth," she asks, "would you and your friends dress yourselves up like a dog team, hitch yourselves to a shopping cart and run through the streets barking?" To which I have no answer besides the obvious one (well, obvious to me). "Because it sounds AWESOME! Duh, Mom!" Registration ...   More

News Indie kids on bikes is nothing new in our neck of the woods, but cross-country? That's a different story. Neo-folk singer Malcolm Rollick, who has shared the stage with such superstars as Kimya Dawson and CocoRosie, will be taking her show on the road, literally. Her eight-month Portland to Portland bike tour will take her first to San Francisco and then pass through Colorado, Missouri and New ...   More

News The 2009 Yard, Garden & Patio Show that took place at the Oregon Convention Center this past weekend was…enlightening. Who knew that half of a disco ball protruding from the soil could be the centerpiece of a garden? Or that people intentionally purchase packs of 200 praying mantis eggs to place in their yards? And then when there are too many bugs, one can start making jewelry out ...   More

News Have you always pictured polo as the sole provenance of upper-crust New England types, who send their children to boarding schools with names like "Andover" and "Exeter"—the only people who can afford a sport that requires them to own SEVERAL DOZEN HORSES? Maybe they floated the horses here from Germany. On their gold-encrusted BOAT. Paddled by SLAVES. The slavish entitlement of these ...   More

News This is not your grandpappy's snowshoe competition. This Sunday, March 8, nationally ranked snowshoe athletes from all over the country will be arriving on the flanks of Mount Hood to compete for twenty-one spots on the U.S. National Snowshoe Team. Past members of the U.S. Snowshoe Team, including Bill and Sarah Raitter from Nevada, Michayla Heil from Wisconsin and Sonja Wieck and Charlie Wertheim ...   More

News Nigel the Llama, this is everyone. Everyone, meet Nigel, a friendly pack llama from Wallowa Llamas, undoubtedly the most melodic company name that I've ever heard. Nigel will be greeting visitors to the Portland REI (1405 NW Johnson St) on Wednesday, March 11 at 7 pm, as part of a presentation that Wallowa Llamas are producing about llama packing. Llama packing is an exceptional way to tour ...   More

News Playground Productions hosts free outdoor parties in Portland public parks throughout the summer. The parties usually run from noon till dark, with DJs, dancing and picnicking. In order to fund these fabulous, sun-drenched (hopefully!) events, they will host a benefit party, "Sol Invictus," on Saturday, March 7. The event is heavy-duty. It's at the Station (2410 N Mississippi Ave.), and starts ...   More