Featured Stories If you spent the last few decades skiing, you may have missed the analog-game renaissance. Led by efficient and humorless German visionaries like Reiner Knizia and Klaus Teuber, board games are More
Winter Guide 2013: Neu-Wave Boards
Tabletop games for the snowbound.
Featured Stories If you spent the last few decades skiing, you may have missed the analog-game renaissance. Led by efficient and humorless German visionaries like Reiner Knizia and Klaus Teuber, board games are More
Winter Guide 2013: Winter Toolkit
Cold Comforts from Local Makers
Featured Stories IMAGE: Morgan Green-Hopkins1. Billy Goat soft-snow skis By ON3P, on3pskis.com. Hand-ground with bamboo core. $799 at Next Adventure, 426 SE Grand Ave., 233-0706, nextdventure.net. 2. Salvatore More
Winter Guide 2013: It’s Not a Portland Winter Until You’ve...
32 ways to distract yourself during the dark days to come.
Featured Stories Only the strong survive Stumptown winters with all their marbles in the bag. Even those who claim to love the rainy season know that the gray, low-hanging clouds always transform from familiar fri More
A Second Rare Bird Arrives from Central America
The ovenbird attracts gawkers in Northeast Portland.
News John McAfee isn’t the only one hiding out in Portland after a long trip from Central America. Another guest from the tropics—this time of the avian variety—has taken up temporary residence in the Pacific Northwest. The Audubon Society of Portland confirmed the sighting of an ovenbird, a species rarely seen outside Central America and the Caribbean during winter months. Longtime-birder Suzanne ... More
The Portland Beard
Touring the city with native proto-foodie James Beard.
Performance James Beard would probably be very proud of what Portland has become. When the foodie icon was born here in 1903, Portland was barely out of its pioneer days. But Beard’s young adult life was More
Voices 2013: Charlie Hales
A decade away made the new mayor a different kind of (political) barnyard animal.
News Once again, Charlie’s in charge. Ten years ago, Charlie Hales quit his job as city commissioner to start selling streetcars. On Jan. 2, the downtown... More
Best Portland Art of the Year 2012
Favorite shows and pieces from 2012.
Visual Arts The Portland art scene lost some important venues in 2012. After mounting some of the strongest shows in recent memory, Victory Gallery closed its doors due to economic necessities. One of the P More
Gus: Co-Directors
Local filmmakers Gus Van Sant and Todd Haynes talk fracking, MTV and old Portland.
Movie Reviews & Stories Todd Haynes, the Portland-based Academy Award-nominated director of Velvet Goldmine, Far From Heaven and the Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There agreed... More
Gus Among Us: Jon Raymond
We asked four Portlanders for their perspectives on Gus Van Sant. Here’s what they said.
Movie Reviews & Stories JON RAYMOND, Author I first laid eyes on Gus Van Sant sometime around 1990. It was at the Clinton Street Theater, and he was screening Mala Noche in the lead-up to the release of My Own Private Idaho More
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