SCOOP GIRL FIGHT: A night of old-fashioned all-female arm-wrestling fun almost turned to disaster Sunday, July 11, when a contestant’s arm was fractured during the opening stages of B-Side’s fou ...   More

SCOOP ONLINE CHIC: Behold, the “blogazine. ”That’s how former Oregonian scribe Karen Vitt is terming her new online project, The Neat Sheet (pdxneatsheet.com), a Portland-focused fashion s ...   More

SCOOP BALLOON BRIGADE: A PDX-based designer and aeronautical artist is helping MIT’s Grassroots Mapping project photograph the BP oil spill. Grassroots uses digital cameras attached to balloons to cap ...   More

SCOOP TRASH, HUMPED: Cheerful cinematic hellion Harmony Korine made his first ever visit to Portland on Saturday, June 19, introducing two screenings of his Trash Humpers at the Hollywood Theatre. WW movie ...   More

SCOOP TRIPPED: Portland-based syndicated political cartoonist Matt Bors is about to leave on his first trip outside of the U.S. since he was a kid: a three-week tour of Afghanistan this August—in the ...   More

SCOOP TABLE SCRAPS: According to the latest round of liquor license applications, shuttered Belmont bar Squeez will reopen as Roost; Sonic Drive-In continues to shun Portland proper, opening a new outpost a ...   More

SCOOP IT CAME FROM THE GORGE: Sunday was a banner day for Stephen Malkmus. The Pavement frontman and Portland resident celebrated his 44th birthday by opening his band’s highly anticipated set at the ...   More

SCOOP NOTES AND BARS: Despite his incarceration, cellist and WW cover story subject (“A Stitch and Time,” WW, May 12, 2010) Harun Mustafa still managed to make music Saturday when the Portland C ...   More

SCOOP The story below has been updated and expanded. Read the full chef vs food pig fight story, here. Read the pig fight police report, here. FOOD FIGHT! Sunday night’s Cochon 555 event devolved ...   More

SCOOP CLOWNS ON FILM: Saturday Night Live mainstay Kristen Wiig has optioned Portlander Monica Drake’s girl-with-the-rubber-chicken book Clown Girl, with plans to adapt it into a movie script. When th ...   More