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Trailer of the Week: The Last Mistress
Asia Argento rotates her feral persona by 90 degrees for a supine exercise in period kink. The French do this kind of thing...
BY Alistair Rockoff    Saturday 2:15 PM  
Making Babies: Never Forever and Brick Lane Reviewed
Ed. Note: We’ve been keeping WW Finder co-editor Saundra Sorenson plenty busy the last week with film reviews: She’s taken...
BY Saundra Sorenson    Friday 8:52 PM  
Portland's Next Food Star: Greg Oden?
Does Portland Trail Blazers phenom-to-be center Greg Oden know his new hometown or what? In this interview with The...
BY Hank Stern    Friday 6:44 PM  
Want to Build a Police Training Center ... and Build a Relationship with Sen. Betsy Johnson?
Here's your opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a potential $120 million project in Scappoose, and build a...
BY Nigel Jaquiss    Friday 3:51 PM   1

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Sleep on What is Perhaps the Best Penny Jam Ever (Video)
It seems like things are finally going Sleep's way. The Oldominion MC is performing at this year's PDX Pop Now! festival, has...
BY CASEY JARMAN    Saturday 2:14 PM  
Dirt Jake Replicas: Line 'Em Up (Sunderland, UK)
June 21st Line ’em up! (Day 5) I don’t think any of us expected today’s events to unfold the way they did. I mean who...
BY Dirt Jake Replicas    Saturday 12:00 PM  
This is What PDX Pop Now! 2008 Will Sound Like (MP3s!)
All year round, we dig through Portland's best music to find MP3s for our Cut of the Day feature. We've done 433 such "cuts"...
BY CASEY JARMAN    Friday 9:00 PM   3
Almost Nearly, Starfucker, Get Lost in the Gospel
It seems like everyone is getting on the Take-Away show bandwagon. Fortunately, local group Lost Gospel is adding a little twist...
BY MICHAEL MANNHEIMER    Friday 7:19 PM   3

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Lean, Mean Meat-Free Machine
Portlander Robert Cheeke is the face of vegan bodybuilding.
BY JOHN MINERVINI
Pour-tland
The city spends another $119,000 to train baristas even though the program isn’t meeting its goals.
BY COREY PEIN
Food Fight
Multnomah County wants chain eateries to provide calorie counts. Restaurateurs say hold the meddling.
BY JAMES PITKIN
Hot Seat
LaJean Lawson
She follows the bouncing breast.
BY COREY PEIN
Holy Bummer, Batman!
Why so serious? Maybe because Heath Ledger’s dead.
BY AARON MESH



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COVER STORY
Lean, Mean Meat-Free Machine
Portlander Robert Cheeke is the face of vegan bodybuilding.
BY JOHN MINERVINI
Inbox
BY WW'S BELOVED READERS
The Score
Signs of the Apocalypse
BY WW EDITORIAL STAFF
HEALTH
Food Fight
Multnomah County wants chain eateries to provide calorie counts. Restaurateurs say hold the meddling.
BY JAMES PITKIN
CITY HALL
Pour-tland
The city spends another $119,000 to train baristas even though the program isn’t meeting its goals.
BY COREY PEIN
IMMIGRATION
Second Life
A teenager’s real 7,500-mile journey from a Southeast Asian refugee camp to Southeast Portland.
BY BETH SLOVIC
EDUCATION
Accounting 101
University advocates to state: hands off our millions.
BY BETH SLOVIC
Rogue of the Week
John McCain
Give the money back, senator.
BY WW EDITORIAL STAFF
Murmurs
News as hot as a driver-cyclist fight.
BY WW EDITORIAL STAFF
JUICY SUITS
Eat, Drink And Be Wary
WWire’s courthouse column makes a rare print appearance
BY JAMES PITKIN
BICYCLING
A Delay In Wheel Time
The city kills a long-planned bike-sharing project with no timeline for its return.
BY JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG
 

Headout Picks
Concession Obsession
A sugar rush for this blockbuster season.
BY JOANNA MILLER
SCOOP
Gossip should have no friends
BY WW EDITORIAL STAFF
Hot Seat
LaJean Lawson
She follows the bouncing breast.
BY COREY PEIN
My Big Fat Gay Wallet
When a billfold becomes a way of life.
BY BYRON BECK
DISH
Green Means Go
The Green Dragon finally fires up.
BY DEEDA SCHROEDER
Table Scraps
Openings, closings and dishy gossip
BY WW EDITORIAL STAFF
MUSIC
Return Of The King
The long, strange musical trip of King Black Acid’s Daniel Riddle.
BY DAVID WALKER
Here Comes Your Fan
Moral Support
Menomena’s Danny Seim steps into the spotlight.
BY AMY MCCULLOUGH
MUSIC
LSD&D, Wednesday & Saturday, July 16 & 19
Seantos McDonald wants your taste to differ from his mother’s.
BY ROBERT HAM
MUSIC
StarChile, host of KXJM’s Hood Radio
BY SARA MOSKOVITZ
MUSIC
DIRTY MITTENS, Pinky Swear (self-released)
BY MICHAEL MANNHEIMER
SCREEN
Holy Bummer, Batman!
Why so serious? Maybe because Heath Ledger’s dead.
BY AARON MESH
SCREEN
Mamma Mia!
The devil wears Oshkosh.
BY ALISTAIR ROCKOFF
Brew Views
Top 5 movies to watch in theater pubs this week
BY AARON MESH
PERFORMANCE
21A (Arts Equity)
There isn’t much to this magic bus.
BY BEN WATERHOUSE
PERFORMANCE
Imani Winds and Roberto Sierra
Classical music without the powdered wigs.
BY BRETT CAMPBELL
VISUAL ARTS
A Summer Serenade
At New American Art Union, Jacqueline Ehlis shines in one of the year’s best shows.
BY RICHARD SPEER
WORDS
COMIC BOOK TATTOO, Various Artists
The Portland/Tori Amos/Sandman connection revealed.
BY BRANDON SEIFERT
Headout Picks
Concession Obsession
A sugar rush for this blockbuster season.
BY JOANNA MILLER
Clublist Spotlight
Victory
BY BEN WATERHOUSE
NIGHT CABBIE
The obese old woman at Fred Meyer has a bad hip and a wheelchair...
BY NIGHT CABBIE


Get Wet: Summer Guide 2008
Get Wet: WW’s Summer Guide 2008
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Finder
Willamette Week's Guide to Portland - on newsstands now!
JUNE 2008
Drink Guide 2008
Willamette Week’s 2008 Drink Guide
MAY 2008
Best New Band 2008
Portland music insiders take our local scene to the chopping block—and come out with 10 new faves.
MAY 2008
Habitat
The Dirty Hands Issue
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WW Voters' Guide, May 2008
For the Love of Politics
WW’s endorsement page-turner has all the candidates worth falling for this election.
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