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

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

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

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

A strip club torn down to make way for community housing. A landfill that became a park. And a nonprofit that shows what can ...

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

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

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

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

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