AltWeeklies Wire
Think Fair Trade Jewelry for Your Holiday Buyingnew
You’ve probably heard about fair trade coffee, or maybe even fair trade handcrafts or cotton. How about fair trade gems?
Willamette Week |
Krista Stryker |
12-05-2007 |
Shopping
Tags: shopping
Hyping the Weathernew
A recent Oregon storm may not have lived up to the hype -- but the coverage could be more frightening than the event. To wit, our awards for the past few days.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
12-05-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Love Matchnew
Detailing the triumph, the tennis and the dead rubbers of the 2007 Davis Cup.
Willamette Week |
Jonah Sandford |
12-05-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Oregon Now Lags in Fighting Climate Changenew
How the state that pioneered the fight against climate change has fallen behind.
Willamette Week |
James Pitkin |
12-05-2007 |
Environment
Tags: Kyoto, environment
Per Petterson Finds Shelter in Norway's Wintersnew
Despite the cold (and dark), there is warmth and security in a crackling fire, and Norwegian novelist Petterson has written a wonderful novel, Out Stealing Horses about a man who, indeed, is comfortable with his surroundings in a twilight land.
Willamette Week |
Tom Alkire |
11-28-2007 |
Fiction
The Reign of Cool Nutz Isn't Over Yetnew
In 1997, Cool Nutz released Harsh Game for the People, a funky, slang-infused cruise through the streets of pre-gentrification Northeast that's widely considered the first classic Portland hip-hop record (he's released nearly 10 since).
Willamette Week |
Casey Jarman |
11-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cool Nutz
Prison Can be a Walk in the Parknew
Picking up wet leaves in the cold for 5 cents an hour is an opportunity to "develop appropriate work habits," according to the Oregon Department of Corrections and Portland Parks and Recreation. It's also an opportunity for Portland Parks to save $387 a day by hiring state prisoners to do work that city union officials say should be done by its full-time employees.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
11-28-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Sam Adams is Portland's Next Mayornew
Unless one of these 12 Portlanders steps up to challenge him.
Willamette Week |
Nigel Jaquiss |
11-28-2007 |
Politics
Former Bella Fayes Frontman Lael Alderman Goes Solonew
Of Birds saunters through a number of genres -- New Wave, indie-pop, British-invasion balladry -- all of which are led by Alderman's confident, malleable vocals (equally capable of Britt Daniel falsetto, Pete Yorn warble or Julian Casablancas hesitant aggression).
Willamette Week |
Jay Horton |
11-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Living Proof Debuts with Positive Hip-hopnew
And at its delirious, beat-mixing, Northwest-pimping best, Living Proof emerges as a tumbling young outfit on the verge of big things.
Willamette Week |
Stephen Marc Beaudoin |
11-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Living Proof, Roots to Branches
Oregon Democrats' Envious Eyes Turn East to Montananew
Big Sky Country, where George W. Bush creamed Democratic opponents in both 2000 and 2004, has something unusual that many Oregonians envy: two Democratic senators in the U.S. Capitol.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
11-28-2007 |
Politics
Taste Testing Portland's Cookiesnew
In the cookie community, it's chocolate chip that seems to get all the attention -- it's Marcia to the oatmeal cookie's Jan, casting a shadow over its less-popular sister.
Willamette Week |
Joanna Miller |
11-21-2007 |
Food+Drink
Director Richard Kelly's Sophomoric Sophmore Filmnew
Once upon a time, writer-director Kelly gave us the fine and sensitive Donnie Darko, a work that succeeded in building eeriness and foreboding with minimal violence. Not so in Southland Tales.
Willamette Week |
N.P. Thompson |
11-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Kelly, Southland Tales
Sleep and Zelly Rock: A Positive Pairnew
The idea of dancehall reggae and hip-hop co-habitating under the same beats is hardly new -- remember Snow? But where most efforts of that variety target mainstream club-goers, Sleep and Zelly Rock's collabo is positive and real.
Willamette Week |
Casey Jarman |
11-14-2007 |
Reviews
Bassist Joanna Bolme Gets Official with Quasinew
Fresh off tour with Quasi -- of which she's now an "official" member -- Bolme talks about why Portland needs more bassists, and why she doesn't talk about (ex-boyfriend) Elliott Smith.
Willamette Week |
Amy McCullough |
11-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
