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all other portals are stupidity based in my opinion... (and i'm well informed of that, i am the founder of postnuke, and the actual team is locked with a simple version for the last 3 years)...

i would suggest you to seek here, simply.. vBulletin is well coded, supported by real professional coders (one of the few software to be), and the coders community is built from cool guys that are always available to answer your needs.

you can take a look at http://vbadvanced.com , our best portal coded with the vBulletin source-code, so you don't have to worry about the structure, it's fitting vB exactly.

with that portal and the forum, you can add one of the hacks that answer your needs: support ticker, reviews and articles system, or one of the other great tools, and for each one, you can add a block or part of the portal that is built for it.

example, the Articles system have two blocks, one of the latests, one for the headlines... so you can display the content you wish.. and the codes are so easy to modify, that any coder can do the job (most for free)

... good luck !