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Hillary to be Endorsed by Unknown Vermont Senator Bernie Something

by Matt Baume With each passing day, fewer and fewer of us are.Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.comPoor Bernie Sanders must've gotten quite a scare this week when a bunch of spooky ghosts chased him around...

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This Week's Style Events

by Elizabeth Mollo WM GoodsWM Goods will host a first Thursday event that will include a pop-up with Portland-based menswear line Wool & Prince, photography from Chelsea Parrett and Rodrigo...

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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates: More Like Mike and Dave Can Treat Women...

by Elinor Jones One thing that’s nice about 2016 is that there are some good-faith attempts to treat women like fully formed humans in film and on television. It’s a better time for representation,...

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"The Double Standard of the Side Hustle"

by Heidi Groover We don't often consider "Uber drivers skirting the law—making, for instance, illegal airport runs—to be 'hustling,'"writes The Washington Post's Emily Badger. But other types of...

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Baker Refuses to Make a Cake for a Same-Sex Couple

by Dan Savage Romiana Lee / Shutterstock.comNot a wedding cake. A birthday cake:It certainly wasn't the text message Candice Lowe was expecting to get on her honeymoon. She says it came from the owner...

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Protests Planned Thursday Night In Wake of Recent National Killings By Police

by Doug Brown Alton Sterling, Philandro CastileThis has not been a good week — two black men were gunned down by police officers. First, on Tuesday, bystanders recorded police in Baton Rouge,...

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Big Thief's Debut Falls Together Seamlessly

by Ben Salmon BIG THIEF Yeah, they named their album Masterpiece. Deal with it.MICHAEL BUISHASFOR ALL OF its good qualities, one of the most likeable things about Brooklyn band Big Thief’s debut...

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The Independent Publishing Resource Center is the Latest Portland Arts...

by Megan Burbank God damn it.TonyTaylorStock via iStockIt's an old story at this point: Rent increases and financial difficulties have displaced a number of Portland arts organizations over the past...

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"Those Emotions Are a Reality That We Need to Acknowledge": Chief Mike...

by Dirk VanderHart Not two weeks into his tenure at the top of the Portland Police Bureau, Chief Mike Marshman faces his second major challenge this evening (here's the first). In the wake of the...

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A Man Was Arrested for Pulling A Gun on Black Lives Matter Protestors in...

by Dirk VanderHart It was the guy just right of center.Doug BrownOne man was arrested during an otherwise peaceful protest in Portland tonight (that's still going on as I write this) for pulling a gun...

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Things To Do This Weekend!

Things to do for Jul 8-10 by Bobby Roberts Chances are somewhat decent there are still one or two inconsiderate jackasses in your neighborhood with too many digits on their hammy little hands,...

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Slightly Faster Than Normal News Day

by Anonymous Looks like they got their little uprising. Now they can enjoy having more nervous cops pointing guns at them more often. Who knows, maybe even some marshall law. People can't even...

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Good Morning, News: An Ambush in Dallas, A Jackass in Portland, and More...

by Dirk VanderHart Tragedy In Dallas: Four gunmen ambushed police during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas last night, killing five officers, and wounding more. It's being called the deadliest...

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Timbers v. New York Red Bulls Match Preview

by Abe Asher Andy Marlin-USA TODAY SportsJuly 4th was a success for the Portland Timbers, as the team took a shutout and deserved road point from their game with the then-Western Conference leading...

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Don't Miss THE BIG FLOAT! This Sunday!

by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Get ready to get wet, Portland, because the best river event of the year is going down this Sunday, July 10... the annual Big Float! For those new to town, the Big Float is a...

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Photos of the #BlackLivesMatter and #DontShootPDX Protests Last Night

by Christopher Keith Garcia Christopher Keith GarciaChristopher Keith GarciaChristopher Keith GarciaWith the recent police killings, protest flooded the streets last night. The Black Lives Matter...

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Tickled Offers a Glimpse into Tickling Fetish Videos—and Then Things Get...

by Kjerstin Johnson I don't recall at what point in Tickled the narration of New Zealand reporter David Farrier stops being cloying and starts to resemble the soothing tones of Werner Herzog. That’s...

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Jan-Marc Cellars Leaves the Garage for a New Venture: Garagiste

by MJ Skegg Jan-Marc Cellars is the epitome of an urban winery, producing a 1,000 cases from a two-car garage in residential North Portland. Along with his wife, Barbara, Jan-Marc has recently opened...

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Pokémon Go: Where to Catch Portland's Pokémon!

by Chipp Terwilliger NOOOOOOOOO. Unless you’ve been living underground like a Diglett for the past 48 hours, chances are pretty high that you’ve encountered Nintendo and Niantic’s new mobile...

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Kuato Demands You Attend OMSI's Sci-Fi Film Fest

by Erik Henriksen Science-fiction movies are often doomed to be forgotten—and given that most of them are cheap, half-assed cash grabs, that’s probably for the best. But when sci-fi is good, no other...

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