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Singled Outnew

Willamette Week's love and sex issue checks in with 16 local daters and finds that everybody in Portland needs love -- even cougars, bears and Unitarians.
Willamette Week  |  Staff  |  02-06-2008  |  Culture

Jim Wallis' 'Great Awakening' is a Snoozenew

A progressive evangelical's new book will put his fans to sleep.
Willamette Week  |  Matt Buckingham  |  01-30-2008  |  Nonfiction

The Maybe Happening Debut with Concept Albumnew

Recorded at Type Foundry by local troubadour Nick Jaina and loosely based on Martin Prechtel's modern epic The Toe Bone and the Tooth , Beyond the Bells tells the tale of an unnamed 17-year-old boy who sets off on a Joycean adventure across the city of Portland.
Willamette Week  |  Michael Mannheimer  |  01-30-2008  |  Reviews

The Long and Winding 'Road Rules'new

I am now too old to get away with regularly watching MTV, which makes The Real World/Road Rules Challenge perfect for me. Let me explain.
Willamette Week  |  Staff  |  01-30-2008  |  TV

Super Bullnew

An ex-NFL player in Oregon is fighting to fix the league’s dirty little secret.
Willamette Week  |  Lillian Hogan  |  01-30-2008  |  Sports

Waiting For Lovenew

Like breaking up, calculating the costs of delaying Oregon’s domestic partnership law is hard to do.
Willamette Week  |  Stephen Marc Beaudoin  |  01-30-2008  |  LGBT

The Green Milenew

As state transportation officials forge ahead with plans to replace the Interstate 5 bridge over the Columbia River, critics charge that the billion-dollar project doesn’t go far enough to reflect Portland’s fight against climate change.
Willamette Week  |  James Pitkin  |  01-30-2008  |  Transportation

Pee-Town Revisitednew

In an effort to provide homeless people a place to relieve themselves, Portland kept its City Hall bathrooms open overnight. So far, that's cost the city $46,500 in its first five months.
Willamette Week  |  Corey Pein  |  01-30-2008  |  Policy Issues

The New Order: Portlands Publicly Financed Electionsnew

The surge of publicly funded candidates raises two key questions before the financing program goes to a voter referendum in 2010: Can the city afford it? Is it too easy to get public financing?
Willamette Week  |  Corey Pein  |  01-30-2008  |  Politics

Rescue Menew

A Portland cop is targeting foreclosure vultures. Next week, the Legislature will, too.
Willamette Week  |  Nigel Jaquiss  |  01-30-2008  |  Housing & Development

Lifestyles of the Rich & Fame-ishnew

Exposing the secret lives of Portland’s celebrity kinfolk.
Willamette Week  |  Byron Beck  |  01-30-2008  |  Culture

Portland Art Center, R.I.P.new

The Portland Art Center closes -- who is to blame?
Willamette Week  |  Richard Speer  |  01-23-2008  |  Art

Toothed-vagina Ladies are Getting Away with Murdernew

I'm perfectly willing to accept that growing up next to a nuclear reactor might cause a girl to develop interlocking incisors in her vagina. (Things happen.) But I'm a little more skeptical that a year and a half of sexual abstinence will turn a teenage boy into a rapist.
Willamette Week  |  Aaron Mesh  |  01-23-2008  |  Reviews

Helio Sequence's Synth-folk Floundersnew

It begins well enough but, weirdly, it's also stuffed with pick-happy country riffs that inevitably overwhelm.
Willamette Week  |  Jay Horton  |  01-23-2008  |  Reviews

Michael Hurley: Pre-Freak Folknew

Portland legend Hurley has a posse: He's credited as an influence by a number of musicians both local (Little Sue, Pete Krebs, Amy Annelle) and national (Cat Power, Lucinda Williams, Devendra Banhart).
Willamette Week  |  Casey Jarman  |  01-23-2008  |  Reviews

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