POWER RANKING

Power Ranking: Portland Jokes

As Portlandia starts its third season this month, what’s fresh, and what’s going stale?

12/18/2012

FEATURE

Safe Delivery: Home Birth in Oregon

Legacy Emanuel leads the way in bridging hostilities between the home-birth community and traditional hospitals—potentially saving lives along the way.

12/18/2012 By Jill Davis

FEATURE

Hot Water in Sunriver

How a businessman at Oregon's premier resort fell afoul of the powers that be.

12/18/2012 By Lee Van Der Voo

FEATURE

The Shell Shock: Saving Oregon’s Hazelnuts

Oregon’s hazelnut farmers have been waging a slow war against a deadly blight for two decades. Now science has saved the trees, but can the industry save the orchards?

12/14/2012 By Christian DeBenedetti

ARTS

How a Portland Workshop Carves Massive Sculptures

3-D scanners and robot carvers make little objects huge.

12/14/2012 By Cari Hachmann

Slideshow

Slide Show: Additive Workshop's Megasculpture

12/14/2012

PROFILE

The Making of a Therapy Llama

A look at how two big camelids learned to help humans.

12/14/2012 By Laura Lundberg

Slideshow

Slide Show: Portland's Therapy Llamas—and The Hats They Wear

12/14/2012

ARTS

What Do Lady Gaga & 'Book of Mormon' Have in Common?

A side-by-side guide to the Broadway hit and the pop megastar

12/12/2012 By Corey Fawcett

NEWS

Insider Secrets of a Dog-Show Champion

Portland's top competitive Pekingese prepares for victory.

12/12/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

MUDROOM

One Sentence Stories: January 2013

Micro-stories about racists, high schoolers making wine, and stink bugs

12/12/2012 By Zach Dundas

MUDROOM

City Council Astrology

An astrologer predicts how our new city council will collaborate—and clash!

12/12/2012 By Marty Patail

Article

PDX Index: Babies

A by-the-numbers guide to our city's newest citizens

12/12/2012 By Jasmine Eoff

TO READ

Back in Time in the NW Quadrant

Jane Comerford's "A History of Northwest Portland" shows and tells what it was really like in the early days of Stumptown.

12/10/2012 By Kristin Belz

DESIRABLES

Hometown Team Spirit

Your homies will feel the love with pillows from Schoolhouse Electric and Yellow Owl that proclaim "You are the champion...of your home."

11/26/2012 By Kristin Belz

SHOPPING NEWS

How To Spread Goodwill While You Shop

To give or not to give? Give Tokens provide an answer to the dilemma of whether you should give money to people on the street.

11/22/2012 By Kasey Cordell

PDX INDEX

PDX Index: Santa Claus

A by-the-numbers guide to Old St. Nick

11/21/2012

Slideshow

Slide Show: PDX Index | Santa Claus

11/21/2012

SCENE & HEARD

Snuff Bottle Aficionados

We checked out the scene at this year's International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society’s convention at the Nines.

11/21/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

POWER RANKING

The Apocalypse

We rate the ways Portland could meet its doom

11/21/2012 By Martin Patail