Jawohl! Maifest, Germany’s oldest sausage party, is here.
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Oktoberfest gets a lot of column inches—the legislated
purity of Bavarian beer, the goofy hats, the giant urinal troughs—while
Maifest always gets short shrift.
And who does not excite himse
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You will have made a terrible mistake if you go to an Arrested Development party without knowing these references.
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After years of rumors and speculation, once-dead Fox sitcom Arrested Development returns via Netflix later this month. To mark the occasion, Holocene is...
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What you need to know to watch this weekend’s 100-mile rally race.
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Logging trucks and mushroom hunters, beware: This weekend,
souped-up Subarus will be spinning up gravel and flying over potholes
in the Columbia River Gorge.
The
Oregon Trail Rally, a se
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Illustrations by Jonathan HillClick on image for larger version!GO: Artist Jonathan Hill will appear at the Stumptown Comics Festival, Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. 10
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Thrifting advice from a man who makes a living reselling Goodwill finds.
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You won’t see any photocopied fliers or crooked yard signs
for “Portland’s largest garage sale.” This Saturday’s swap meet at the
Expo Center doesn’t have such ragged charm. But that d
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A Lakers fan on the biggest Blazers game since ’77
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Hey, Blazers fans: Stop trying to hold back your
excitement. You and I both know the game on April 10 is the biggest for
your franchise since June 5, 1977, the day Bill Walton brought the NBA
Ch
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Disney princes offering themselves as escorts for hire.
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When we saw that the Star Theater was hosting scantily
clad Disney princesses getting down with a stripper pole, it looked a
bit familiar: Heck, it’s basically the plot of Spring Breakers, excep
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Find an Easter egg in a Willamette Week box and win a prize.
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Peep this: Easter is a bummer for grown-ups. It’s all ham and shoeshines, not chocolate bunnies and plastic grass.
And no adult egg hunts. Well, until now. We hid a dozen plastic eggs in blue Will
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Funny improvisational comedy game you probably not like.
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“Do not go to this performance,” Vladimir, an East Portland greengrocer, advises me. “You will not like the jokes.”
I’ve lived in Russia and heard jokes like the ones RUDN, a winning team
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Orange juice cartons, cherry-cola bottles and a wine jug
litter the tables in Arlo Leach’s attic music room. He’s neither a lush
nor a hoarder: He’s a jugger.
According to Leach,
there a
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