Wednesday, January 04

Cover StoryVoodoo Child

Doughnut kingpin Tres Shannon wants to make the whole city his fun park.

At 2:42 am, Tres Shannon decides we need to see if Occupy Portland has shut down the Port of Portland. It’s a Tuesday morning, 30 minutes after Shannon’s weekly set at Dante’s with his Kar ... More

Dec 21, 2011 12:01 am by AARON MESH

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Crazy Enough

Getting off, snorting up and wrestling with family demons—excerpts from Storm Large’s new memoir.

Cover Story Storm Large is calling from the Four Seasons in New York, where she is having lunch. “I’m looki... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by WW Staff

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Making Food Deserts Bloom

A new grant program aims to bring healthy foods to neighborhoods without supermarkets, but can it reduce obesity?

News Muktar Abdow is terribly proud of the refrigerator and freezer at his African Mini Market on North ... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by HANNAH HOFFMAN

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Self-Seriously Funny

Portlandia brings back pickling and other hobbies.

Movie Reviews & Stories The second episode of the second season of Portlandia revolves around a duo, played by Carrie Brown... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by AARON MESH

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Home Away From Home

Records raise doubts that Metro candidate Helen Ying lives in the right district.

News Helen Ying, an educational consultant and former vice principal at Parkrose High School, has a lot ... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by COREY PEIN

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Searching for Shangri-Loo

Toiling to find Portland’s Palace of Pee.

Culture Like so many others, this voyage of discovery begins with a game of Ms. Pac-Man. I’d lost, again,... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by PATRICIA SAUTHOFF

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Headout: Sort of Sam

WW exclusive: Sam Adams' endorsement for Portland’s next mayor.

Headout OK, so he’s not the mayor, but when singer-songwriter Sam Adams moved to Portland a year ago from... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by MELINDA HASTING

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What is Portland's Best Restroom?

Nominate to win a $50 giftcard to Brasserie Montmartre

Features In this week's paper, we looked at some of Portland's best restrooms in "Searching for Shangri-Loo." Now we want to know your favorite place to pee and poop in Portland. Email an photo to mcizmar@wweek.com, and the best submission will win a $50 to downtown French bistro Brasserie Montmartre. Magnifique!... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by WW Culture Staff Comments 0

Portland Police Bureau Acknowledges Problems With Use-Of-Force Reviews

News It appears that the federal civil rights investigation into the Portland Police Bureau, announced in July, has produced its first tangible result... More

Jan 3, 2012 05:24 pm by COREY PEIN Comments 0

Library District Could Appear on November Ballot After All

News Multnomah County Commission Chair Jeff Cogen drew the ire of Multnomah County Library supporters a month ago when he said he wouldn’t support ... More

Jan 3, 2012 03:06 pm by HANNAH HOFFMAN Comments 0

Kickstarted: Run On Sentence Community Support Music

Music The project: Run On Sentence Community Supported MusicWho's behind the project? Dustin Hamman, the man behind Run On SentenceWhy does he want you... More

Jan 3, 2012 01:41 pm by ROBERT HAM Comments 0

NYE Show Diaries

Music The purpose of New Year's Eve isn't really to see great bands. The purpose of New Year's Eve is to get completely trashed and hang out with your ... More

Jan 2, 2012 08:35 am by CASEY JARMAN Comments 0

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Portland Police Bureau Acknowledges Problems With Use-Of-Force Reviews

News It appears that the federal civil rights investigation into the Portland Police Bureau, announced in July, has produced its first tangible result: A change in procedure requiring that a supervising officer respond to the scene of all reported use-of-force incidents.A bureau announcement, published minutes ago and reproduced below, includes an acknowledgement by Chief Mike Reese that current practices are not in line with national best practices. The announcement also reveals that the bureau cons... More

Jan 3, 2012 05:24 pm by COREY PEIN Comments 0

Library District Could Appear on November Ballot After All

News Multnomah County Commission Chair Jeff Cogen drew the ire of Multnomah County Library supporters a month ago when he said he wouldn’t support ... More

Jan 3, 2012 03:06 pm by HANNAH HOFFMAN Comments 0

Oregon Corrections-Related Chart Of The Year

Does higher incarceration lead to lower crime?

News This comes from a report delivered to Gov. John Kitzhaber today by the Oregon Commission on Public Safety, a group charged with finding ways to c... More

Dec 30, 2011 02:25 pm by COREY PEIN Comments 2

Almost Live: Nuggets at Blazers (Throwback Edition!)

News Maybe I should really call this the "Birdman Edition," seeing as how, no matter how minor a role that Denver big man plays with the Nugs, I tend ... More

Dec 29, 2011 05:45 pm by CASEY JARMAN Comments 0

The City of Portland's Winter Cycling Advice Sucks

News As a notorious skinflint who bikes through the winter, I sympathize with the spirit of these "cheap ways to stay warm and dry on a bike" tips fro... More

Dec 28, 2011 09:01 am by COREY PEIN Comments 9

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Kickstarted: Run On Sentence Community Support Music

Music The project: Run On Sentence Community Supported MusicWho's behind the project? Dustin Hamman, the man behind Run On SentenceWhy does he want your money? Hamman is expanding a project he started last year—a subscription style service where you give a small or large amount of money to Hamman and he gives you a new song every month. As he says on the Kickstarter page, he's borrowing the model of Community Supported Agriculture where you pay some money to a farm and get a box of fresh produce eve... More

Jan 3, 2012 01:41 pm by ROBERT HAM Comments 0

NYE Show Diaries

Music The purpose of New Year's Eve isn't really to see great bands. The purpose of New Year's Eve is to get completely trashed and hang out with your ... More

Jan 2, 2012 08:35 am by CASEY JARMAN Comments 0

The Year in WW Music Calendar Art

Music Most of the original art you see on the music calendar pages of Willamette Week is done by one of our supremely talented graphic designers, Adam ... More

Dec 30, 2011 05:00 pm by ADAM KRUEGER Comments 0

New Year's Resolutions From Your NYE Entertainment

Music As is tradition, the end of a year is a perfect time to reflect and to set resolutions for the upcoming year. With that in mind—and the fact th... More

Dec 30, 2011 03:00 pm by NILINA MASON-CAMPBELL Comments 0

Better Know a Dive: Kenton Club (Underbelly Bender #7)

Music Who doesn't love dive bars? Nobody, that's who—although few love a good dive as much as And And And's Bim Ditson. That's why he put together ... More

Dec 30, 2011 02:12 pm by MATTHEW SINGER Comments 0

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Drunk in Oregon: The 10 Best Selling Liquors of 2011

Food & Drink It's that time of the year again: When newspapers take a break from reporting actual news and pad column inches with "the year that was" facts and retrospectives. In compiling ours (look out for it on Wednesday!) we queried the OLCC with the top selling liquor in Oregon this year. Being able to track this kind of data is one of the few advantages to this nanny control state of ours. So what was Oregon imbibing this year? 1 - HRD Vodka 2 - Seagram's 7 Crown 3 - Potters Vodka 80 proof 4 - Jack Da... More

Dec 22, 2011 11:13 am by Ruth Brown Comments 3

Five "Classic" Burgers the Oregonian Missed

Food & Drink Breaking news! Your hamburger is a snob. That's the gist of the latest installment in the Oregonian's bizarre crusade against good food—a 2,000... More

Dec 9, 2011 02:30 pm by BEN WATERHOUSE Comments 18

Eat Mobile: Now a Major Motion Picture

OK, a Vimeo. Also: The official Eat Mobile 2012 announcement

Food & Drink Only about six months after the fact, we finally have the official video of our 2011 Eat Mobile food cart festival online. Remember how much fun ... More

Dec 5, 2011 03:39 pm by Ruth Brown Comments 4

Future Drinking; Nov. 28-Dec. 1

This week's liquor license applications.

Food & Drink Another brewery is taking up residence in the railyard warehouse district south of Southeast Powell Boulevard where Alameda Brewing recently inau... More

Dec 5, 2011 12:00 pm by BEN WATERHOUSE Comments 0

BagelGate: Kettleman's Bagels "Will Not Change"

Food & Drink The entire city of Portland was rendered shocked and dismayed yesterday with news that local chain Kettleman Bagels—known for its delicious, ch... More

Nov 30, 2011 10:54 am by Ruth Brown Comments 5

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Moscow Bar: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

Clublist Spotlight The first time I tried to visit Moscow Bar (16015 SE Stark St.), I got as far as the front door ... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by CASEY JARMAN

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Album Review: Bridgetown Sextet

New Old Fashioned (Self-Released)

Music Stories [THROWBACK JAZZ] The title of this spiffy new CD accurately describes the local retro-jazzers, who bring a relatively youthful exuberance to 15 concise takes on vintage pre-World War II hits by ... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by BRETT CAMPBELL

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The Prince and the Queen

Liv Warfield has sung in front of 80,000 fans. She’s glad to be home.

Music Stories In 2006, there was no brighter shining light in Portland’s music scene than Liv Warfield. The R&B singer could bait audiences by laying smoky nu-soul vocal melodies over her band’s underst ... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by CASEY JARMAN

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Such Great Heights

2nd Story is worth the climb.

Food Reviews & Stories Erin McBride does wonderful things with beets. And kale. And sometimes peaches. As so often happens in this town, (say it with me) it all depends on the season. The Ohio-born farm girl made desser ... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by KELLY CLARKE

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Double Dragon

A bourgie take on bahn mi.

Food Reviews & Stories Bahn mi price inflation is a hot button for foodniks. Is it reasonable to double the price of cheapo Vietnamese sandwiches when they’re composed of midgrade ingredients and served in swankier di ... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR

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Book Review: Glaciers

Memories, like corner thrift-store finds.

Books Book-loving, twentysomething thrift-store shoppers will find local author Alexis Smith’s Glaciers at home in their hands. Smith’s debut novel’s main character, Isabel, is the epitome of the ... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by EMILEE BOOHER

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Bear & Moose: Thursday, Jan. 5

Two’s company for this Portland rock duo.

Music Stories [STRIPPED-DOWN ROCK] Contemporary Portland rock acts seem to fall into two distinct camps: Groups that pile as many bodies as possible on the stage to create a maelstrom of sound and impac ... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by ROBERT HAM

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Crash Course

In his first full season with the Blazers, Gerald Wallace has emerged as the team’s heart.

News Gerald Wallace is a quiet guy. So it was something to note when, in the closing seconds of the first half of the Trail Blazers’ game against Sacramento on Dec. 27, he dumped his exhausted, sweat ... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by CASEY JARMAN

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Murmurs: Punched Out In Portland’s Living Room.

Murmurs FROM THE EDITOR: Sometime soon, Dwight Holton and Ellen Rosenblum each will announce their candidacies for the state attorney general’s seat incumbent AG John Kroger will vacate next year. Holton ... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by WW Editorial Staff

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The Rise of the Know

While the rest of Alberta Street grows up, the Know has become Portland’s mecca for punk and hard rock.

Music Stories The Know’s barroom half is a ramshackle container for cheap beer. Its restrooms appear to idolize CBGB’s storied stalls. The adjoining show space might as well be a basement. The club’s ro ... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by CHRIS STAMM

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Brew Views: E.T., Raising Arizona

Out with the old, in with the old

Brew Views Even if you don’t notice any difference in what image you see, the death of celluloid is going to impact the kind of movies you see. The open question is whether digital projection will offer mo ... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by AARON MESH

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Drank: 2 Towns Ciderhouse Nice & Naughty

Food Reviews & Stories The scent of apples baked in cinnamon and nutmeg wafts out of Corvallis’ 2 Towns Ciderhouse’s Nice & Naughty Spiced Bad Apple seasonal. It’s like a pie fresh from your grandma’s oven o ... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by RUTH BROWN

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Dr. Know: Christmas Tree Composting

Can I dump my Christmas tree into the compost bin?

Dr. Know Now that we’ve got weekly compost/yard debris pickup, I figure I should be able to dump my 100 percent-organic Christmas tree into the compost bin and not get charged for tree disposal. Can I?&n; ... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by MARTY SMITH

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Scoop: Engaging Grimm, Brownstein Quips and the Winter Market

Gossip that knew Iowa would let us down.

SCOOP AH, YES, WE REMEMBER THE PIGMAN WELL: The Nielsen television-ratings company released its rankings for 2011 last week, and Portland-filmed Grimm is the year’s “most engaging” show. That means pe ... More

Jan 4, 2012 12:01 am by WW Culture Staff

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