Culture Americans are disgustingly fat. I’m allowed to say so because not long ago, I was disgustingly fat. Three years ago, I weighed close to 300 pounds. I would like to tell you being a big, lazy s   More

Culture Why are Portlanders so drawn to therapies outside the medical mainstream? Maybe it’s our general love of deviance, or just because we’re broke, unemployed and can’t afford a trip to Kaiser   More

Culture So you’ve resolved to join a gym. Good for you! But how do you choose which is right for you? Here are the essential facts.   More

Culture Like so many others, this voyage of discovery begins with a game of Ms. Pac-Man. I’d lost, again, and decided to regroup by ridding my body of the PBR that was surely affecting my game. Instead    More

Culture We've compiled a Harper's Willamette Week Index of fascinating Portland facts and stats from 2011.
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Culture In a mere 10 days, 2011, with its awful progression of disasters and revolutions...   More

Culture The Huey comes in low out of the south, slinging 4,000 pounds of living-room decoration on its tow line. Hovering 50 feet above a patch of hard-packed dirt and gravel, the helicopter gently sets    More

Culture But for their usually portly paychecks, it’d be almost tragic how the people behind our era’s greatest advertising campaigns toil in obscurity despite the ubiquity of their handiwork. The    More

Culture Having read this week’s cover story (“The Portlandification of Brooklyn”, Willamette Week August 10th, 2011), which paints Brooklyn as Portland-plus-money-and-ambition, you may be considering a   More

Culture Whatever Ellis Island’s pleasant fictions about the poor, meek or hungry, Portland’s Old Town has always welcomed them in earnest. It has been a century-long home to the transient or boozy, whe   More