News & City Life

Ax Season

The Team

Some of the players to look out for in the Timbers' first MLS season. There are eight returning players from the Timbers minor league team and a plethora of rookies, vets, and foreign imports.

02/15/2011 By Zach Dundas and Martin Patail

Slideshow

Slide Show: The Team

02/15/2011

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The Fans

With the Timbers' first MLS season approaching, the Timbers Army is ready and willing to take on new members. It all started with a group of 10 raucous fans in 2001 and has now grown into a full-blown, organized army.

02/14/2011 By Zach Dundas and Martin Patail

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Portland Soccer: An Expanded History

A timeline of soccer history in Portland. From the Timbers' humble beginnings to the opening MLS game.

02/14/2011 By Zach Dundas and Martin Patail

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A Timbers Cheatsheet

A Timbers cheatsheet for fans who want to get on board but may know much about the MLS. We'll tell you who the mascot is, who to look out for, and who we need to beat.

02/14/2011 By Zach Dundas and Martin Patail

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The Coach

Q & A With John Spencer

02/14/2011 By Zach Dundas and Martin Patail

Editor’s Note

Golden Goals

With the Portland Timbers' first season as an MLS team fast approaching, over 10,000 season tickets have been sold. The question is, can the low-budget "Timbers Army" fan base that has been with the team for 10 seasons in an obscure second-tier league sur

02/11/2011 By Zach Dundas and Martin Patail

Portland Monthly Presents

Private Schools Guide 2011

Finding the right hallowed hall for your child isn’t an easy process. But we can help you get started with stats on more than 100 area private schools, and profiles of 12 that are excelling in everything from science to community service.

01/19/2011 Edited by Kasey Cordell

Mudroom

The Best of Times

As a new year begins, we salute all that’s going well (Seriously!)

12/22/2010 By Zach Dundas

Article

The Edge Ledger

A quick guide to the odds of Oregon’s casino games (and how to tilt them in your favor)

12/16/2010 By Martin Patail and Ali Moran

Salem 2011

Friends With Benefits

As a divided Oregon Legislature convenes, relationships—between people, not parties— could decide the state’s future

12/16/2010 By Randy Gragg and Zach Dundas

Article

NSFW

A dentist's online porn cruising shatters a practice and exposes the blurry legal lines over what's not safe for work

11/17/2010 By Lee Van Der Voo

Mudroom

The Kulongalaxy

Our outgoing guv’s long career puts him in the middle of…everything.

11/16/2010 By Zach Dundas

FEATURE

Light A Fire 2010

Our annual celebration of the nonprofit community highlights the individuals and organizations that are making Portland a better place to live, love and grow.

10/08/2010 By Anna Sachse

Slideshow

Slide Show: Light A Fire 2010

10/08/2010

NOTHIN' BUT NEXT

The Game Changer

As Division I Basketball's only openly gay coach, Portland State women's hoops coach Sherri Murrell is breaking records on and off the court.

10/08/2010 By Jason Cohen

Spirit Guide

Five Minutes With Dan Aykroyd

Comic actor chats about his Crystal Head Vodka

09/24/2010 By John Chandler

Festival notes

It's the Pirate's Life for Me

Intern Geoff Earl serves as a buccaneer bouncer at the Portland Pirate Festival

09/22/2010

Long Story [Short]

The Trainer

In 2006, Oregon Zoo trainer Philip Fensterer took an unlikely stumble into the big-cat kingdom and never quite made it out of the den.

09/13/2010 By Lauren Fox

Mudroom

Circuit Breaker

A Portland designer builds the electric bike to beat.

09/13/2010 By Eric Blokland