Movie Reviews & Stories Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell have become the paunchy, awkward Wayans brothers of American comedic film, broad-stroked and choked up with cheap gags, sweaty and desperate for the audience’s   More

Cover Story Every two years, the Olympic Games noisily emerges as the pinnacle of bewildering human endeavor.  The Games’ most familiar events—skiing and...   More

News On July 21, Multnomah County and city officials warned Portlanders that their drinking water had tested positive for E. coli...
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Food & Drink Day 29 of our 31-day ice cream binge, Scoops' out for Summer, we get nostalgic at a newish Hawthorne cafe.

The Hazel Room
3279 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 756-7125, thehazelroom.com.Price per scoop: $2
Most popular flavor: The cast rotates at whim. Flavors have...   More

Food & Drink Our month of eating ice cream every single day continues...
Staccato Gelato
232 NE 28th Ave., 231-7100; and 1540 SE Bybee St., 517-8957, staccatogelato.com.Price per scoop: $2.25 for a single scoop, $2.75 for a duplex, $3.50 for a triple-decker.
Most popular ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Following up on 2007’s much-venerated, sordid metaphysical puzzle box Timecrimes, director Nacho Vigalondo again cracks the genre box wide open in Extraterrestrial.  Across all of Spain, 4-   More

News At least one prominent Democratic politician looks to be coming through for the Prez’s efforts to stir up excitement (and money) from the Portland faithful. Gov. John Kitzhaber’s office has confirmed that he will indeed be speaking on Obama's behalf at the President's $500-$1,000 fundraising luncheon at noon today, at the Oregon Convention Center.
No word yet on whether the Governor will b...   More

News Last night, in advance of his brief stopover in Portland for a fundraising event at the Oregon Convention Center at noon today, President Barack Obama did not get on the phone with Willamette Week.Instead, Portlandia star and SNL's resident Obama impersonator Fred Armisen gr...   More

Sports Troy Perkins was tired of getting shelled. At the Portland Timbers’ practice July 16, the team ran a succession of Bugatti-quick six-on-six scrimmages. Perkins, the Timbers’ goalkeeper, trie   More

Movie Reviews & Stories I would love this movie to become the Risky Business or Pump Up the Volume for a generation of small-town Norwegian teens raised on Internet pornography. Even with its opening scene of a nubile yo   More