Music MFNW director Trevor Solomon likes to walk over to our desks and say things like "Major Lazer." We're, presumably, supposed to provide some kind of response. Some of these crazy ideas come to fruition (Major Lazer, for example), and some of them don't. But by this time of year, WW's annual MusicfestNW festival (Sept. 9-12) is in its "mostly figured out" phase. Headliners like the National, Sleep, the ...   More

Music WW intern Sarah Jacoby jumps right in to seeing Brian Jonestown Massacre and gets exactly what she bargained for. I admit it. I didn't know anything about The Brian Jonestown Massacre until I saw the infamous DiG!—a movie that lead singer Anton Newcombe would probably like us all to forget. Having seen the somewhat unflattering portrayal of the BJM in the film, I went to the band's show last ...   More

Music If it was up to me, The Spinto Band would be world's most popular boy band ever. With its catchy hooks, basement genius aesthetic and scrappy get-up, this adorable septet from Deleware is indie pop at its finest. Live, they are addictive and enthusiastic, catapulting from one end of the stage to the other, dripping in sweat and blowing “ohhs” and “ahhs” through the occasional ...   More

News We came, we stood in lines, we ate our weight in tasty samples. More than 1,300 hungry Portlanders descended on the Kenton neighborhood last Saturday for Eat Mobile, WW's second annual food cart festival. And all the net proceeds will go to local non-profit Mercy Corps NW. (Scroll all the way down if you just wanna check out a slideshow of the event). Although some would be festival goers ...   More

News [youtube IynQCmqvXZs] Forgive us for a moment as we recount the awards we picked up Saturday night at the annual banquet put on by the Society for Professional Journalists' Oregon and Southwest Washington chapter. WW picked up 16 first-place awards for journalism in 2008 among larger-circulation non-dailies in Oregon and among alt-weeklies in the Northwest region. And WW reporter Beth Slovic earned ...   More

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News has begun to collect the 32,183 signatures needed to get a recall question on the ballot, May We Interrupt Your Day wanted to know how the Sam Adams situation has shaken out on the street. In this episode we ask: "Would you support a recall vote for Mayor Sam Adams?" has begun to collect the 32,183 signatures needed to get a recall question on the ballot, May We Interrupt Your Day wanted to know ...   More

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News Here's Part III of WW's June 30 interview with Attorney General John Kroger. In this segment, Kroger discusses the ethics of Mayor Sam Adams' attorneys as well as the conflicting accounts told by Adams and Beau Breedlove (Since WW's interview earlier this week with Kroger, Breedlove has given his own interview with KGW in which he asks what his motive would be to lie) Check back throughout the week ...   More