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Updated Friday, Oct. 10, with lots of new videos and air times on Channel 30. Watch the videos now, go to Candidates Gone Wild next Monday, Oct. 13, and look for WW's endorsements on Oct. 15 ! * * * * * * * * * * You probably haven't noticed, but there's an election coming up. Over the past month, WW has been inviting candidates and ballot measure advocates in the Nov. 4 general election to come to our office and chat about the issues. And once again, Portland Community Media has...

Photo by Fenris23 . This weekend all the freaks, witches, hippies and just plain ol’ free spirits from throughout the Northwest are going to be making our weird Portland a little bit stranger than it already is. That’s because it’s time for the second annual Esozone festival . This year’s theme: “The Other Tomorrow.” “It all started when a bunch of occultists who communicated through various blogs and web forums decided we wanted to have some sort of gathering,” said...

"Been working hard all week/ Time to take a break/ Play me some Marvin Sease , some Marvin Gaye ..." For a special Friday selection from the Publisher's Jukebox , WW publisher Richard Meeker sends you into the weekend with Mel Waiters ' "Got My Whiskey": Drop a bookmark here to watch all Publisher's Jukebox posts.

Wow. It's hard to keep up with the latest in the world of food and wine. Here is just the latest: The Chesterfield may be no longer. According to the OLCC the bar/lounge/hipster hangout that was until recently owned by Leo Rivera of Bishops Barbershops has sold to someone named Craig Readman (this guy, maybe? ). Word on the street is The Chesterfield, which is now covered up in butcher paper, will reopen under a new, slightly hard-to-figure-out-why-its-called-that name: The Report...

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It's Friday , by God. And on Fridays we look forward to the week's end and celebrate by freaking ourselves out a little bit . Do you know what a "rat king " is? Meditate on this image. A rat king supposedly occurs when a nest of rats are living in such close quarters that their tails become intertwined, glued together in a tangle of feces and filth . The rats eventually kill each other out of frustration or starve to death. It's a useful metaphor that I refer to any time I have to...

TWILLLLLLLIGGGGGGHHT!!! You can almost hear the deafening sound of one billion virgins screaming that across the globe. That's because the "final" trailer for that film , which is going to be unleashed on audiences Nov. 21, is upon us. And, guess what, a big chunk of that trailer, comes from the spot where we recently shot our Fall Fashion cover for Willamette Week and I spent some time on the set for this story . Here are some photos I took earlier this year on...

I was sitting next to Jack Ohman, the O's cartoonist, at last night's nerve-rattling U.S. Senate debate between Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) and Democratic challenger Jeff Merkley. Ohman inspired me to make a few of my own cartoons. I, in turn, disgraced his profession. Sorry, Jack. Anyway, beyond being the "Worst Cartoonist," here are my takes on the "best and worst moments"  from last night's debate: Best journalist: Tracy Barry, who in her best...

Following the packed glitz and glamour house of Portland's 2008 Fashion Week premier night on Wednesday, Day Two of PFW continued yesterday evening inside the glacial looking icecube that is 14 Square's spacious Northwest warehouse. Although celeb sightings were scarce, the energy wasn't quite as high and the crowd wasn't as thick as opening night the fashion still finessed itself down the runway, the Rock Stars still flowed and "fancy" and "fierocity" seemed to be the code words of the...

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And you thought the last Candidates Gone Wild was out of control. Just take a sneak peek at the video below and you'll quickly realize we've probably gone waaaaaaaay too far this time. The most rocking and raucous political event of the season, Candidates Gone Wild , takes place 8 pm Monday, Oct. 13 at the Roseland Theater . Here is just a snippet of what you will see at the event. And yes, that is the mayor-elect of Portland, Sam Adams, in a cat suit. Want to see the whole film...

Economy got you down? Don't know where your next paycheck is coming from? Never fear, reality television is here to save your ass. (Hell, it worked for Project Runway's Leanne Marshall). That's right: The Food Network is coming for you, Portland . Or at least for your cooking skills. And, oh yeah, HGTV wants your house . The Next Food Network Star is a competitive hunt in search of the next Raechel Ray or Bobby Flay ; each season's winner is awarded his or her own "HGTV...

Last year, I wrote a story about an Oregon prison inmate named Greg Kellcy, formerly known as Greg Johnson. Kellcy provided WW with what he said was the real story behind the mysterious 1989 murder of Oregon Department of Corrections director Michael Francke. Many people, most notably Portland Tribune columnist Phil Stanford and Francke's brother Kevin—but also legislators and colleagues of Michael Francke's—have never believed that the state's conviction of of a small-time Salem...

Adrean Butler, an appropriately-endowed server working at the Jantzen Beach Hooters restaurant, beat out 15,000 other aspirants (really!) for a spot in the 2009 company calendar. The calendar, now in its 23rd year, will be available for purchase online and in all Hooters restaurants for about $16.95. It is somewhat less creepy than the Naked Clown Calendar. Per tradition, the calendar is printed out of order, so that viewers have the, um, pleasure of turning not just one page per month,...

Pretty interesting story in The Oregonian today about ballot measure king Bill Sizemore. The allegation is that Sizemore is making a pretty fat living off payments from a fishy Nevada nonprofit funded by Nevada (and former Oregon) medical device manufacturer Loren Parks. For years, Parks has been the patron saint of Oregon conservative causes but he's really turned on the spigot this year: since the May primary, records show, he and his company have pumped $1.87 million into various...

As Portland Fashion Week climaxes this weekend at PFW Plaza (1330 NW 14th), some local designers will be working and partying out of the spotlight. In stated opposition to the competitive "exclusivity of Fashion Week ," RunAway will showcase a number of PDX designers in an extended fashion show dance party, community-style. Catwalk models will sport fall lines from Gretchen Jones (Mothlove ), Emily Katz , Emily Baker (Sword & Fern) , Page Finlay (Paradox Jewelry ), Lindsey Reif (Reif...

On October 24th, Destin Gerek, "The Erotic Rockstar ," invites you to attend his O's For Obama sex rally . The main event goes down in San Fransisco but will be simulcast online; Gerek hopes to inspire parallel happenings across the globe—"a large scale orgasmic breathing experience culminating in a simultaneous group energetic breath-gasm ." Breathgasm? "A rip-roaring, full-body, high vibrational energetic breath orgasm all while fully clothed." Aha. I see. During the...

It's too bad there are no women on the panel of journalists asking questions at tonight's U.S. Senate debate. It might occur to a woman to ask Sen. Gordon Smith about this , given this . More than a month ago, I asked Smith's Senate campaign for the incumbent's thoughts on the proposed regulations from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that would further protect health-care workers who object to abortion (and even perhaps certain forms of birth control) by tying...

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Origami paper ballroom dresses, 5-inch high stilettos, urban fireman couture and neck tattoos all found their way inside the high-ceilinged and unfinished warehouse space of 14 Square's Pearlized front lobby (1330 NW 14th Ave.) as tonight marked a very long day one (out of five) of Portland Fashion Week 2008 . Down the river from the industrial Swan Island setting of last year's PFW, 14 Square is surrounded by industrial train tracks and freeway overpasses outside and tonight, was...

Is that a gun on your chest or are you just happy to see me? That's right fans, we're live at the second preseason Blazer game of the year against the Golden State Warriors. Boom! Downstairs in the media room, we were watching the Celtics play the 6ers. All I saw was Darius Miles on the sidelines—with a shaved head, nonetheless—but Ezra looked up the stats and apparently he actually PLAYED. Bad news for ol' Paul Allen, and for Kevin Pritchard, who was sitting across from me and watching...

The Portland-based Bicycle Transportation Alliance just released the results of this year's bike commute challenge . The challenge included 1073 workplaces and 10,689 people. We pulled out some of the more interesting categories from the list of winners, which is too long and dull to reproduce here. BTA spokesman Karl Rohde wrote, in his press release, "There are some pretty startling numbers in there." What's more surprising is who not on the winners' list, or didn't...

Three months after news of layoffs across the river at The (Vancouver) Columbian there's this latest blow to the paper, in which the daily is moving from its new building back to its old office, as part of a cost-cutting move. And in an even more ominous note, Publisher Scott Campbell is quoted as at least considering the prospect of the business seeking "temporary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors" as one option.

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