AltWeeklies Wire
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
Tags: sports & fitness
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
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
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
Tags: 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
Tags: public 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
Tags: 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
Tags: visual arts
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
Tags: Mitchell Lichtenstein, Teeth
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
Tags: Ancestral Swamp, Michael Hurley
