Green Machine

With economic stimulus dollars up for grabs, a gubernatorial strike force of Portland power players has a comeback plan.

By Ted Katauskas

Holy Diver

Steven Kimes believes the poor really will inherit the earth. That’s why he quit his job, took his family to the streets, and became Portland’s most radical servant of the homeless.

By Randy Gragg

Observed

A photo essay about the Oregon Ballet Theatre dancers, not the dance, that captures the private moments between performances.

By Andy Batt

The Great Divide

As the city decides how to build its first new bridge in decades, should Portlanders push for form or function?

By Mike Thelin

Feliz Cumpleaños, Rudy!

The all-rookie dunker turns twenty-four this month and it can’t be easy for the six-foot-six Spanish wonder to be more than five thousand miles away from home on his birthday. So to help make the transition we’ve assembled this basket of our favorite Spain-Portland fusion gifts.

By Benjamin Golliver

How To...Pluck A Person Off Mount Hood

The January 17 helicopter rescue of Mount Hood climber Michael Leming certainly wasn’t the first time the National Guard’s 1042nd Medical Company has picked someone off the peak, but it might have been the last—at least for a while. The company and its twelve choppers were deployed to Iraq in January for a four-hundred-day tour of duty. So if you do take a dive down Reid Glacier, here’s the SOP for getting your busted body into a rescue chopper and off the hill.

By Sam Holder

Say Spaaah

Prime places for a springtime reawakening.

By Kasey Cordell and Kaitlin Johnson

Powering Down

Retiring PGE chief Peggy Fowler on evil CEOS, science, and the inevitable perils of being green.

What happens when God goes broke?

His son might be able to walk on water, but even God is having trouble staying afloat in this economy. At least that’s the case at downtown’s First Unitarian Church, where, facing a $185,000 budget deficit, the doors may have to be shuttered for the month of July, when attendance is at its lowest.

By Lynette Sanchez

PDX Index: Green

By Kaitlin Johnson

Personal Best

The trend for spring is timeless individual style. Eight Portlanders show (and tell) how it’s done.

By Jill Spitznass

Escape from New York

Another Brooklynite trades the Big Apple for a Portland state of mind.

By Daniel B. Smith

Hooked on Chinook

Highly sought-after and often controversial, this perennial Northwest salmon is still the king of spring.

By Martha Calhoon

Belgian Bliss

With a rare yeast and a competitive spirit, brewers across town are concocting heavenly ales.

By Tom Colligan

St. Innocent Winery

St. Innocent Winery winemaker Mark Vlossak is handcrafting some of Oregon’s best wines.

By Condé Cox

Under the Incan Sun

Peruvian-inspired restaurant del Inti adds the flavors of the Northwest to a cuisine that embodies cultural fusion.

By Martha Calhoon

There Is a Cod

British-born chef Michael “Mick” Shillingford craved the traditional fish-and-chips of his native land, so Shillingford opened the Fish and Chip Shop last October. World-class? Maybe not. But until your next trip to the United Kingdom, a fine placeholder indeed.

By Clarissa Fong

Davis Street Tavern

The dining options for us hungry downtown cubicle drones often feel skimpy north of W Burnside Street, in Old Town, where egg rolls and pork-fried rice are the coin of the realm and the prospect of a proper salad seems slim. The good news is that the recently opened Davis Street Tavern, at NW Fifth Avenue, qualifies as a place that serves up the requisite locally grown produce in a roomy pub setting.

By John Chandler

Mean and Sober

Adam Shearer’s nasally whine still has a hard time working itself into anything approaching a snarl, but on Weinland’s second album, Breaks in the Sun, the rest of the band has been given more room to serve the underlying themes of heartbreak and drunk belligerence.

By Randy Gragg

Fond Farewell

Emily Chenoweth’s debut novel is a compelling and delicate tale of a family’s painful loss, realized within relationships new and old.

By Isaac Darnall

Laughs on Hawthorne

More than 100 extremely funny folks—including Janeane Garofalo and David Koechner—will hold court on upper SE Hawthorne Boulevard for four days of high hilarity during the second annual Bridgetown Comedy Festival, April 23–26.

By Randy Gragg