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How an Oregon Guru Raked in Millions as a New Age Psychicnew
Eric Pepin is a balding, heavyset 42-year-old from Beaverton, Ore. who claims he can heal the sick, control the weather, travel between dimensions and communicate with God. He teaches his secrets on CDs and DVDs that sell for up to $299 each on his website. And people buy them.
Willamette Week |
James Pitkin |
05-13-2009 |
Culture
Tags: Eric Pepin, New Age
From Foraging to Fermentation, How to Hone Your Natural Instinct on a Budgetnew
You can take the man out of the wild, but you can't take the wild out of the man. Or, better said: you shouldn't.
Willamette Week |
Adrienne So |
04-01-2009 |
Food+Drink
Tags: food & drink, recession
March Madmen: The NCAA Tournament Comes to Oregonnew
If you have no interest in teenage pituitary cases wearing baggy shorts, suck it up: This week you are outnumbered.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh and Henry Stern |
03-18-2009 |
Sports
Breedlove the Beautiful Boynew
Artists know the long tradition of the Beautiful Boy, the male Lolita whose siren song has transfixed sculptors and painters for millennia and led many a hapless older man (and more than a few women) astray.
Willamette Week |
Richard Speer |
02-04-2009 |
Art
'Apollo': Two-Thirds Awe, One-Third Annoyancenew
Apollo, Nancy Keystone's three-part epic play about Nazi scientists, NASA and the civil-rights movement, premiered last Friday at Portland Center Stage after eight years of development.
Willamette Week |
Ben Waterhouse |
01-21-2009 |
Theater
How I Ended Up Taking My Cat in for Acupuncturenew
I've long been someone who sings popular songs to his cat, rewriting the lyrics around "kitty." But now I'm someone whose cat gets acupuncture, which I feel is an order of magnitude more ridiculous.
Willamette Week |
Ethan Smith |
12-10-2008 |
Culture
Making Fun of Martha Stewart? It's a Good Thingnew
Up the satellite dial is Whatever with Alexis & Jennifer, the yack fest on Martha Stewart Living Radio with Alexis Stewart (daughter of you-know-who) and Jennifer Koppelman Hutt (daughter of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Chair Charles Koppelman).
Willamette Week |
Byron Beck |
09-10-2008 |
Media
Do We Really Need the Gay Olympics Anymore?new
One organization might become obsolete thanks to the new queer visibility at the Olympics—a sporting event called the Gay Games. Every four years a cluster of queer folk gathers for the world’s largest LGBT-inclusive sporting event.
Willamette Week |
Byron Beck |
08-13-2008 |
Sports
Johnny Richey Makes Change with Bootleg Barack T-shirtsnew
Obama may be battling attacks by Sen. John McCain calling him an empty celebrity, but he’s unquestionably a star in one sense: He moves product.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
08-06-2008 |
Fashion
Julius Achon: A Portland Runner's Olympian Survival Storynew
Before moving to Portland in 2004, Julius Achon had already lived a full life of Olympian highs as an adult and unspeakable horrors as a child in his native Uganda.
Willamette Week |
Hannah Hultine |
08-06-2008 |
Sports
Captured By Porches Isn't a Microbrewery, It's a Nanobrewerynew
Dylan Goldsmith, 34, is the sole employee of Captured by Porches, Oregon's smallest brewery, filling every position from owner to keg-washer.
Willamette Week |
Joseph Watts |
07-30-2008 |
Food+Drink
LaJean Lawson Follows the Bouncing Breastnew
For more than two decades, Lawson has searched for new and better ways to keep women’s boobs from bouncing when they run.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
07-16-2008 |
Sports
A Portland County Proposes Calorie Counts on Chain-Restaurant Menusnew
Portland's dual reputations as a food-lover's mecca and a bastion for progressive politics may soon be married on menus across the city.
Willamette Week |
James Pitkin |
07-16-2008 |
Food+Drink
Portland Spends Another $119,000 to Train Baristasnew
On July 9, the City Council voted unanimously to renew a $119,000 program that seeks to make service-with-a-smile espresso jockeys out of a couple dozen "at-risk youth"--bureau-speak for troubled and/or troublemaking teens.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
07-16-2008 |
Food+Drink
Lean, Mean Meat-Free Bodybuilding Machinenew
Robert Cheeke is a bodybuilder, but he has an even better reason to be proud of his massive muscles--they're made of soy. Cheeke isn't just vegan; he's preaching the good news that eating a plant-based diet doesn't mean being a noodle-armed wimp.
Willamette Week |
John Minervini |
07-16-2008 |
Sports
