Battles

A breakdance show turns local b-boy culture on its head to get dancers paid.

Featured Stories John Molina’s résumé sparkles. Over his career as a breakdancer—a b-boy, according to scene parlance—he’s won about everything a West Coast kid could hope to. He ... More

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 Ron Knox

Off The Wall

A pair of local choreographers asks the Ford Building to dance.

Featured Stories In the course of the past 96 years, the Ford Building has been an auto factory churning out Model T’s, a booze storage facility for the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, a publishing company and ... More

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 KELLY CLARKE

Let Us Entertain You

We sent a reporter to TV’s America’s Got Talent auditions. Portland stayed weird.

Featured Stories MOM ROCK: Seattleite Jessica Ketola had the unexpected chance to sing with Sting onstage when the Police came to the Gorge Amphitheatre in 2008. Her family—Rachel, Ellie, Micah, David and Anna ( ... More

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 Ari Phillips

Beer Brawl

Our movie critics argue about our movie critic’s film festival.

Featured Stories Forget lights, camera, action. I want beer, movies, argument. For the past year, I’ve been working with local promoter Jacques Boyreau on starting a new film festival, dedicated to reveling in P ... More

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 WW Screen Staff

Portland’s Got Talent

Would-be actors gather to emote, network and kick ass for the city’s next big thing.

Featured Stories K.O. CAMEO: Tualatin’s Shane Ballenti and his fellow students in Leverage Boot Camp’s “thug” stunt class learn the rough stuff. IMAGE: leahnash.comWhile the rest of Portland wa ... More

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 NATALIE BAKER

50 Ways To Please Your Lover

From porn and back rubs to folding laundry and unleashing flower bombs, Portlanders have a lotta ways to show they care.

Featured Stories By NATALIE BAKER, KELLY CLARKE, LEAH DIMATTEO, CASEY JARMAN, NIGEL JAQUISS, MICHAEL MANNHEIMER, AARON MESH, JAMES PITKIN, ARI PHILLIPS, BRITTANY ROGERS, MATT SINGER, BETH SLOVIC, HANK STERN AND BEN WA ... More

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 WW Staff

Pupusa Quest

For the best Salvadoran food around, you gotta get beyond Portland’s city limits.

Featured Stories BEYOND BURRITOS: Cheese pupusas and a Salvadorian beer at La Guanaquita in Hillsboro. IMAGE: chrisryanphoto.com“It’s like Mexican food. This here, it’s like a quesadilla,” the ... More

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 NICK ZUKIN

Blissed Out

New year, new focus. One woman’s not-so-successful quest to get Zen.

Featured Stories Need to relax? Opportunities for meditation in anti-materialistic, largely anti-religious Portland are boundless. I learned this when I set out to find the perfect class in an effort to help mellow ou ... More

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 Betsy Rothstein

Spring Awakening

The Fertile Ground festival is back with 10 days of home-grown theater and dance.

Featured Stories Last January, the first ever Fertile Ground festival drew some 6,000 people to readings and performances of 36 world-premiere plays—all of them created right here in Portland by your neighbors a ... More

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Ben Waterhouse, Kelly Clarke

Advertisment: Give! And Let Give

You gave nearly $1 million and all you got was this kick-ass concert.

Featured Stories When Portlanders give, they give big. Even with the bestial recession gnashing its putrid teeth on our bank accounts, WW readers mustered damn near $1 million to bolster the community, the e ... More

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 WW Editorial Staff