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Popping Shots and Riding Bikes: Trucker Convoys Are Still Going Somehow
“Freedom convoys” rolled in to Ottawa and Portland this weekend to protest whatever remains of the COVID-19 health measures and keep cops busy.
Viral Hate Videos Are a Person of Colour’s Reality
Violent, racist clips are the new normal on my social media feed and have changed the way I look at the world.
Here Is Portland’s Cold War Plan for Surviving Nuclear Armageddon
Cold War Portland had a scheme to save 100,000 people—and it worked.
This Woman Is Doing Her Part to Keep Portland Weird by Decorating Power Lines with Dildos
"Dick-tossing is an exercise in happiness," she said. "It was just a fun, hilarious thing to do."
Someone Is Mercilessly Attacking Portland's Power Lines with Dildos
Some Portland vigilante is throwing pairs of dildos over telephone wires like rubber dick nunchucks.
Lilacs & Champagne's New Song Is Cinematic Hip-Hop for Your Daydreams
The guys from post-rock band Grails have taken a break from introspective guitar music to make hip-hop beats with their side project. Their new song, "Roses & Kisses," will chill you out after your a post-rock induced existential crisis.
An Alleged Group of Juggalos Is Terrorizing North Portland Businesses
As many as 14 businesses have been targeted with goofy-but-threatening fliers, but Juggalos insist that someone is trying to frame the group.
The People Who Wouldn’t Mind if the Pacific Northwest Were Its Own Country
Last weekend I went to Cascadia Rainingman Festival to talked to Pacific Northwesterners who dream of a utopia based on environmentalism, renewable energy, and rejecting the influence of the rest of America.
Portland Bands Are Competing in a Basketball Tournament Using a Hoop Attached to a Tour Van
The van is parked in front of strip clubs, cul-de-sacs, and in alleyways—two bands face off until a champion emerges or the cops break it up. Or until the game dissolves into a drunken roman candle fight.
America's Veteran Crisis
As politicians in Washington wring their hands over the Veterans Affairs scandal, VICE News travels to Portland, Oregon, to see what it’s all really about.