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Jeff Cogen’s New Job Incestuous Portland. Jeff Cogen and Dan Saltzman create the Portland Children’s Levy, then assign Mrs. Cogen to run it [“Don’t Call It a Comeback,” WW, July 13, 2016]. The fund writes checks to Impact NW. When Cogen is exposed as a pothead and adulterer on taxpayer time, his biggest defender is … Continue reading Inbox: Best of Portland

Best of Portland Reader's Poll 2016: The Complete List of Winners

27,000 readers voted. These are your favorites.

North Portland Has its Own Ant-Sized Museum

“Welcome to Portland’s miniature museum,” reads the sign at 3820 N Haight St., where Christopher Davies has been displaying art from friends—artists or not—for two years.

There's A Mysterious Light-Up Face on a North Portland House

Homeowner Bert Gorski’s ongoing public art project started out as a Christmas lights display in 2011.

Here Are the Things Willamette Week Formally Declared "The Best" in the Past 12 Months

From the best little strip mall in Portland to the best rooftop for people watching, this is what we deemed “the best.”

Portland Pig "Ms. P. Iggy Smalls" Is Portland's Best Celebrity Pig

“Ms. P. Iggy Smalls,” aka “Notorious P.I.G.”, is a mini-Juliana pig whose Instagram page is filled with photos of her in doll hats, with painted nails, and frolicking in a pink kiddie pool

Society Nine Is Portland's First Boxing Apparel Line for Women

“What this sport is about is empowerment, and that femininity is inherently powerful,” says Lynn Le, creator of Portland’s first boxing and mixed martial arts apparel line for women, Society Nine.

Portland's Best Chocolate Fountain Lies in East Portland

How a 20-foot-tall chocolate fountain came to exist on Northeast 181st Avenue, halfway to Multnomah Falls, is a love story.

A Replica of a Wishing Well Is Portland's Best Monument

Paradise Springs was a long-buried stream that once flowed down Mount Tabor all the way to the Willamette.

Jay Winebrenner Makes the Best Advertisements for Keeping Portland Weird

A self-taught director with a keen eye for absurdist, low-budget what-the-fuckery, Winebrenner produces his own ads that could also be summed up as “you’ve really just got to see them.

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