Hindsight is 20/20. Looking into the future? That’s 50/50. To celebrate Willamette Week’s 50th anniversary, we decided to ...

Saint Jack. Lardo. Ox. XLB. Pok Pok. What do these iconic Portland hot spots have in common? They’re just a few of the 60 ...

For most of the 20th century, doctors treated cancer by hitting it with everything they had. Radical surgery, high-dose ...

Before it became Portland’s swankiest urban neighborhood, the Pearl District was a forlorn, dusty old railyard bisected by an ...

Portlanders now know the probable winners of a dozen seats on the 2025 City Council. It’s a diverse group. The 12 include ...

Rex Burkholder recalls a simple motivation for co-founding the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. “I got tired of thinking I ...

Vintage bathtubs, copper door knobs, giant slabs of old-growth lumber. The ReBuilding Center is a veritable Aladdin’s cave of ...

Portland has the ninth-largest Native American community of any city in the nation, but none of its members had ever been ...

For far too long, Portland wasn’t known for its women’s sports. The Portland Fire played just three seasons in the WNBA. The ...

A goliath steam turbine. A vintage U.S. Navy submarine. And dinosaurs—don’t forget the dinosaurs. The Oregon Museum of ...

The name is everywhere: Schnitzer Steel. Schnitzer Hall. Schnitzer Properties. Patriarch Sam Schnitzer fled from Ukraine to ...

In 2008, the housing market bubble burst and Portland food carts podded up. Those two events are more related than they seem: ...