9+ hour, 1+ min ago  (245+ words) Two elevators that allow cyclists and people with mobility challenges to use the pedestrian bridge over train tracks in Southeast Portland are both out of service. A Portland Bureau of Transportation spokesman says the north and south elevators that people…...

6+ hour, 49+ min ago  (629+ words) Trail Blazers employees, sports media and various rich folks packed inside the Rose Room at the Moda Center this afternoon for the first press conference held by new Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon'a man who many have feared will move…...

14+ hour, 58+ min ago  (769+ words) Every few minutes, another freight train whistles and shrieks through "the gauntlet," the interlaced tracks that split the Central Eastside Industrial District, running adjacent to Ulna Studio, the breathtaking (and historic) space that muralist Lettie Jane Rennekamp shares with fellow…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (228+ words) 24 Hour Party People (2002) Every time another maudlin, artist-authorized music biopic arrives in theaters, the naysayers will invariably ask, "Hasn't this movie ever seen Walk Hard?" But is simply identifying and skirting tropes the limit of our music-movie imagination? 24 Hour Party…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (479+ words) I don't know what other plays have grafting in them," says playwright E.M. Lewis about Apple Hunters!, which makes its world premiere at Artists Repertory Theatre this spring. Apple Hunters! is about two adult brothers, Paul and Eddie, and their two…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (386+ words) Shows of the Week: RP Boo Is Not Just a Legend'Willamette Week Shows of the Week: RP Boo Is Not Just a Legend RP Boo, Cass McCombs and David Byrne take the stage this week in Portland. RP Boo is…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (394+ words) I grew up in a small town myself, and I'd always dismissed scenes like these as the stuff of cute fiction. At least, I'd never seen anything like this happen in real life. I hadn't, that is, until I visited…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (566+ words) Willamette Falls might be the most spectacular sight in Oregon that most people never see. There are reasons for that. One is the industrial wreckage that crowds the falls like dead barnacles on a white whale. The Blue Heron Paper…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (466+ words) As the latest project from the owners of storied businesses like Hey Love and Dig A Pony, LaVerne's feels just as thoughtful and cohesive: the lush, tropical vibes of Hey Love and the undeniably young and hip Dig A Pony…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (10+ words) Classical Pianist Filippo Gorini Brings Beethoven to Oregon Prisons'Willamette Week...