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 ...

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

More than 10,000 people gathered when the square opened on April 6, 1984. Lindberg considers it one of the city’s most ...

The origin of Powell’s Books is a tale of two cities—Portland and Chicago. In 1970, Michael Powell was a graduate student at ...

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 ...

For the past 50 years, civil rights and social justice leader Kathleen Saadat has advocated for women, people of color, ...

“One of the things that I love about Portland is that three friends with an idea can make something happen,” says Craig ...

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

One of the first (of many) mistakes I made as a young WW staffer in the early ‘90s was calling Will Vinton the winner of ...

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