Willamette Week

The McMenamins Brothers Are Saving the Lotus' Century-Old Bartop

The 92-year-old Lotus cardroom, once a home of bootleggers and gamblers, closed with a slideshow August 20, to make room for offices and a hotel. Jay Horton talked to its owner, John Plew about who bought the nearly century-old cherrywood bar, and the Lotus’ status as Portland’s first hipster bar.

The Year in Portland Music, Illustrated

A year of openings, closings, human turds and Catholic bondage.

Lady Things: Fake Tan Cocktail Hour

This week, we go deep into a feminine ritual we have long watched inquisitively from a far: the fake tan.

Concert Review: Madonna at Moda Center, 10/17

I know now that Madonna isn’t irrelevant, boring, over. I humbly acknowledge that she is the Queen of the World.

Live! Tonight! Not Sold-Out!

Madonna and our other top concert picks (that aren’t Madonna) for Saturday, Oct. 17.

The Ladies Madonna

Madonna is playing Portland for the first time since 1985. Catch up on the many Madonnas we’ve missed with this paper doll!

Sex and Candles

An oral history of that time Madonna came to Portland and made a (terrible) movie.

A Film for the Genius Child

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a genius—just ask anyone who knew him. That might be because he was one of the most prolific, social and controversial artists in New York City in the 1980s, a part of Andy Warhol’s elite inner circle who’s still called out in songs by Jay-Z, Macklemore and ASAP Rocky.

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