Arts & Culture

Article

You Saw Her Here First

Amy Palomino is an up-and-coming Portland actress.

05/19/2009

THE HIT LIST

Spin City

These local record stores are still rocking.

05/19/2009 By Stacey Wilson

WE LIKED IT

Doomsdayer’s Holiday

05/19/2009 By Lucas Bradley-Kelly

WE LIKED IT

Hearts & Daggers

05/19/2009 By Lucas Bradley-Kelly

NOW SEE THIS

Dancing Backward

05/19/2009 By Martha Calhoon

5 MINUTES WITH…

Sarah Vowell

In The Wordy Shipmates (Penguin Books), Vowell revisits the 17th-century Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Company, finding them to be a singular and idiosyncratic bunch.

05/19/2009 By John Chandler

Article

Long Way Home

Oft-displaced artistic powerhouse Disjecta settles into more permanent digs on the edge of working-class Kenton.

05/19/2009 By Martha Calhoon

Article

Book Binders

A clerk at Powell’s finds multiple loves (and other difficulties) in between the pages.

05/19/2009 By Aaron Gilbreath

We Liked It

Perhapst

Music Revue

05/19/2009 By John Chandler

Deck the Walls

You Need Art

You're a grown-up. You live in a grown-up home, wear grown-up clothes and sit in a grown-up chair.

05/19/2009 By Camela Raymond

LONG READ

The Creek

This sober yet surreal coming-of-age tale got the final nod at Portland’s 2007 Wordstock festival.

05/19/2009 By Joshua Michael Riedel

Basketball

Calling the Shots

Before Kevin Pritchard took over as GM, the Trail Blazers were the most laughable, losingest team in the NBA.

05/19/2009 By Jason Cohen

Article

Wild Things

More than 600 people flocked to the Oregon Zoo for the ninth annual Zoolala bash.

05/19/2009

Article

Hole in One

Nike’s Tiger Woods Center hosted Ronald McDonald House Charities of Oregon and Southwest Washington’s Swinging Social 2008.

05/19/2009

Arts & Culture

The Shape of Memory

As Maya Lin creates seven landscape installations retelling the Lewis and Clark story from the perspective of Columbia River tribes, the legacy she charts is partly the region’s, and partly her own.

05/19/2009 By Camela Raymond

Article

Win a Getaway

It’s your last week to play the online scavenger hunt.

05/19/2009

5 MINUTES WITH…

Paul Krugman

05/19/2009 By John Chandler

Book Review

Horse Suspense

Molly Gloss’s new novel tells a warmhearted tale of a coolheaded, bronco-busting Oregon gal.

05/19/2009 By Kaasten Alonso

Write On, Bro

A Farewell to One

Portland embraces collaborative creativity with New York City-style writers’ rooms.

05/19/2009 By Kristen Hall-Geisler

Article

Trial by Fire

A freak conflagration reaffirms a noted Northwest landscape artist’s ties to his home ground.

05/19/2009 By Camela Raymond