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No Car, No Problem: One Portland Family Gets Onto Their Bikesnew

When you're joyful that gas has dropped to about $4 per gallon, it’s not hard to figure out why people are giving up on driving. But how easy is it to get rid of owning your car for good?
Willamette Week  |  Lillian Hogan  |  08-06-2008  |  Transportation

The Queer and the Qur'an: One Man's Struggle with Being a Gay Muslimnew

Ali stays in the shadows, because if he were to come out as a gay Muslim, he would lose things dearer to him than his own life: family, community, identity.
Willamette Week  |  Byron Beck  |  08-06-2008  |  LGBT

1988: The Year in Portland Musicnew

Like most significant moments in any local music scene--the grand occurrences of life-changing music that changed everything--they happen on someone else's watch.
The Portland Mercury  |  Ezra Ace Caraeff  |  07-24-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

Activists Want Portland to be a Sanctuary for AWOL Soldiersnew

A coalition of activists called PDX Peace is gathering signatures to make Portland America's third "Sanctuary City" for military deserters, along with San Francisco and Berkeley. And they want the City Council to adopt an ordinance that would protect war resisters by blocking Portland police from acting on federal orders to arrest AWOL soldiers.
Willamette Week  |  Beth Slovic  |  07-23-2008  |  War

A Handful of PDX Pop Now!'s Founders Reminisce, Persevere and Conquer Genrenew

The annual PDX Pop Now! festival, which celebrates its fifth birthday this Friday through Sunday at Rotture, shows no signs of aging--even if it has caused a few gray hairs among the heads of four of its founders.
Willamette Week  |  Casey Jarman  |  07-23-2008  |  Concerts

An Unpaid Intern's Guinea Pig Guide to Inexpensive Portland Health Carenew

Despite the big downside of living in a wonderful dream town: It is fucking impossible to find a well-paying job. So while Portland may have one of the nation's highest densities of college grads and a progressive approach to health care, a vast 40 percent of Portlanders between ages 21 and 24 still don't have insurance.
The Portland Mercury  |  Sarah Mirk  |  07-17-2008  |  Science

Meet Hush Records' Chad Crouch, Your "Full-service Label Guy"new

Back when Portland-born Crouch started Hush 10 years ago, things were a bit more, well, quiet on Portland's musical front.
Willamette Week  |  Amy McCullough  |  07-09-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

Travel Portland Tries to Woo Tourists with Indie Rocknew

The "private nonprofit destination marketing organization" is running an "Indie Music Hotel Package," which courts the would-be indie tourist with hip package deals for lodging and a free sampler of local music.
The Portland Mercury  |  Ezra Ace Caraeff  |  07-03-2008  |  Music

America's Favorite Vegan Cookbook Writer Now Calls Portland Homenew

Isa Chandra Moskowitz's recipes have been a part of vegan potlucks since her first cookbook, 2005's Vegan with a Vengeance. She shares a little about her upcoming book as well as recipes for Quinoa Salad with Black Beans, Pasta Della California and Banana Rabanada.
The Portland Mercury  |  Patrick Alan Coleman  |  06-27-2008  |  Food+Drink

Did Hannah Bea's Close Because of Gentrification?new

When the restaurant does shut down, owner Anita Smith will owe taxpayers $143,000. But don't expect contrition from Smith; she's far too angry at the Portland Development Commission and gentrification for the uncertainty she says is driving the closure.
Willamette Week  |  Beth Slovic  |  06-25-2008  |  Food+Drink

Rollerball: Portland's Best-kept Secret for Far Too Longnew

These people are so humble, it doesn't occur to them that they ought to be lauded alongside local legends like Smegma, the Wipers and Yellow Swans. Musicians revere them.
Willamette Week  |  Nathan Carson  |  06-25-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

Two Portland Bakeries Say No Eggs, No Gluten, No Problemnew

Bread ain't just bread anymore -- especially if you're part of the city's growing legion of vegans or gluten-intolerant.
Willamette Week  |  Deeda Schroeder  |  06-11-2008  |  Food+Drink

The Death of a Landlordnew

Plenty of people want to kill their landlord. Not many are accused of actually doing it, hacking him to pieces, offing a roommate at the same time, then dumping both bodies 30 miles away in the sticks.
Willamette Week  |  James Pitkin  |  06-11-2008  |  Crime & Justice

Meet a Professional Rat Catchernew

Tim TenBrink has run Critter Control in Portland for 10 years. He moved here from Michigan, after deciding he didn't want to teach high school science there any more because the job wasn't as fulfilling as he'd expected. So he got a part-time job in Portland doing pest control, and stayed.
The Portland Mercury  |  Matt Davis  |  05-29-2008  |  Business & Labor

Why Build Another Bridge Between Portland and Washington?new

Portland-area pols say global warming is a dire threat -- but they want to spend $4.2 billion on a project that makes driving easier.
Willamette Week  |  Nigel Jaquiss  |  05-21-2008  |  Transportation

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