Food & Drink We've written a bit about Max Ogden and his Portland API project over the past couple months, so we won't go on about it too much more here. But Ogden spoke this past week at CyborgCamp Portland 2010, a combination conference/un-conference exploring the interactions between humans and computers, and gave a few real-life, up-and-running examples of his idea of the “civic web.” It's funny: Ogden's ...   More

News We got the call about this genius idea way too late to squeeze into the print newspaper, so our lucky blog readers will reap the benefits. Gregg Abbott, owner of the ridiculously addictive Whiffie's Fried Pies (I've got a tasty profile of his sweet 'n savory cart in tomorrow's issue of WW, check it out) just called to let us know that he and Potato Champion's Mike McKinnon have a special offer ...   More

News The Fried Onion, a food stand that provides sausages, burgers and sandwiches to the hungry workers of the Northwest Industrial District, has moved from its home of several years at Northwest 24th Avenue and Vaughn Street to a parking lot on 23rd Avenue just north of Thurman Street (see map, below). John McGrath, a gray-haired man in a faded Yankees cap who operates the business with his wife, Marcy, ...   More

News What goes best with face-melting 100+ degree temperatures? Deep fried grub and off-key tunes, of course. Tonight marks the inaugural session of the Hawthorne Cart Village's "Foodkartaroke." Which is exactly what it sounds like. Fried pie man and Twitter addict Gregg Abbott over at Whiffie's Fried Pies has been tweeting about the song-party all week—begging for a PA (he found one) ...   More

News A dispatch from the Department of Shameless Self-Promotion (of Awesomeness): Eat Mobile, WW's annual food cart festival, is back. The giant cheap food blowout gets rolling on Saturday, April 24 under the east end of the Morrison Bridge. And tickets are on sale online or at WW's headquarters RIGHT NOW. They're only $7 ($10 if you get 'em at the fest). We are limiting Eat Mobile's crowd capacity ...   More

News All 1,200 tickets to this weekend's Eat Mobile food cart festival were sold out by Wednesday morning, and we're getting lots of desperate calls from hungry Portlanders who waited too long to purchase their passes. We really don't have any more to sell, so some of the needy have turned to Craigslist, where they're offering well above the $7 face value for wristbands. We don't approve of scalping ...   More

News We're a soft-hearted bunch here at WW Headquarters. After all 1,200 tickets to our third annual Eat Mobile food cart festival sold out by Wednesday morning, and we got word that hungry locals were begging for Eat Mobile wristbands on Craigslist, we realized that we needed to give two of you cart-crazy locals a break. But we can't give these golden tickets away to just anybody. Oh no. We want ...   More

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News We are happy to announce the winner of WW's "Show Your PDX Food Cart Pride" photo contest and the proud owner of two tickets to our totally sold out Eat Mobile food cart festival this Saturday: JEANNIE JOHNSON. Johnson's plea was simple and sweet: "I took my dad to Brunch Box recently. This is a picture of him enjoying the icanhazcheeseburger. Obviously, he loved it! By the time I was able to ...   More

News Willamette Week's third annual Eat Mobile food cart festival finally arrived Saturday afternoon, and it was huge. How huge? We squeezed 30 carts under two and a half blocks of the Morrison bridge and packed in some 1,900 hungry Portlanders (check out the line!), who between them drank 150 gallons of Pabst Blue Ribbon and ate every last bite of food. (Check out the big Eat Mobile photo slideshow ...   More