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A Chat with Designer Lizz Basinger
by Cassie Ridgway Lizz BasingerJeremy KirbyDURING OUR most recent heat wave, I realized that despite my desire to sweat it all out in cutoffs and an old band tee, I had professional obligations which...
View ArticleTerror Attack at Turkey's Largest Airport
by Dan Savage Crazy RT @agirecudi: Wow the police actually shoots one of the suicide bombers before he blows himself up. #Istanbulpic.twitter.com/sHsVvA8IiE— Jeffrey (@mrmonka) June 28, 2016The...
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Here Are Your 2016 Drammy Award Winners
by Megan Burbank Profile Theater's adaptation of Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's funniest book, Orlando, cleaned up deservedly.David KinderIt's that time again! Portland's hyperlocal...
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City: Proposed $258.4 Million Housing Bond Amounts to 1,300 Units
by Dirk VanderHart Nicole CmarThe City of Portland now has another figure to attach to the $258.4 million housing bond City Council will almost certainly put before voters this November: 1,300. That's...
View ArticleShould Portland Have a Safe Drug Injection Site?
As the heroin epidemic grows worse, people are finally talking about it. by Dirk VanderHart "HERE THEY COME!"The call goes up before the bicycles roll to a complete stop on a recent Friday, sending a...
View ArticleHall Monitor: PPB—The New Batch
We've Got New Police Leadership! Will It Matter? by Dirk VanderHart YOU KNOW, absent the occasional shooting by the police chief that goes casually unmentioned for a month, the Portland Police Bureau...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor
"I too have made it through all these years with generous helpings of the 'Blum."RE: JEFF GOLDBLUMRE: "Jeff Goldblum's Psychosexual Power" [Film, June 22], Megan Burbank's erotic contribution to last...
View ArticleSummerfest's Panic Attacks and Beautiful Fabrics
CoHo's annual festival highlights innovative plays—with minimal Shakespeare. by Megan Burbank IT'S EASY to think of summer as dead time for Portland theater. But that sentiment, while not wholly...
View ArticleGrief Is the Thing with Feathers: A Somber Breeze of a Book
Max Porter's writing finds a language for grief. by Rich Smith ALL THE GRIEFS are here in Max Porter's Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. Grief the joker. Grief the jerk. Grief the pal. Grief the...
View ArticleI, Anonymous
Love and Action Figures A FEW WEEKS BACK, I ran into Walmart at Eastport, looking for a present for my nephew. As I grabbed an action figure, a little toddler boy walked up and tried to hand me a Five...
View ArticleEverything as Fuck
Some startling facts about England. by Ian Karmel 'Allo, 'allo!Sorry, how rude of me. 'Allo, 'allo is how they say hello in England, which is where I am right now. I'm overseas. Across the pond. On...
View ArticleWhy Is It So Damn Tough to Open a New Restaurant in Portland?
Rent, labor shortages, high costs are keeping newcomers in the weeds. by Andrea Damewood THREE DAYS A WEEK, Peter Cho is in his small, airy kitchen at Han Oak, plating haute Korean barbecue with just...
View ArticleChefs, Booze, and Frozen Pizza
We got top Portland chefs drunk and then made pizza—with toppings purchased at 7-Eleven. by Heather Arndt Anderson IT'S A WELL-KNOWN FACT that chefs and food writers slum it on junk food in their off...
View ArticleTackling the Trickiest Recipe in the Ox Cookbook
Tongue, offal, and time: It costs a lot to cook this cheap. by Andrea Damewood IT STARTED with a cow tongue and one recipe from Around the Fire, the new cookbook from the grill-happy restaurant Ox.It...
View ArticleThis Little Piggy Went to Market
And prepared a recipe from the Portland Farmers Market Cookbook. by Dirk VanderHart I DON'T VISIT our city's many farmers markets often. I never do, in fact, and I refuse to be denigrated or belittled...
View ArticleNot as Easy as Pie
I Tried (and Kind of Failed) to Make a Pizza from Ken Forkish's New Cookbook by Ciara Dolan THE LAST TIME I "made" a pizza, a couple of years ago, it was an inexpensive and easy endeavor: I went to...
View ArticleThe Gweat Gwyneth Paltrow Wrecipe Test
Is it really All Easy? IS ANYTHING? by Megan Burbank I AM A DREADFUL COOK. Blame it on grad school, sloth, or domestically inclined ex-boyfriends, but I'm staring down my thirties with a...
View ArticleThe World's Most Indispensable Food Accessories
If you're not using these remarkable inventions, you're eating incorrectly and might choke and will probably die. by Ned Lannamann EATING IS DANGEROUS and difficult—if it weren't necessary for...
View ArticlePortland's Most Delicious Mashups
Our favorite local mashups of booze, candy, spices, and more! by Andrea Damewood SOMETIMES, DEAR READER, when two Portland companies like each other very much, they get together and make a...
View ArticleYour Fave Portland Restaurant Too Busy?
Try these second choices! by Thomas Ross SCENARIO: Feeling a yen for your favorite brunch/pizza/ice cream/ramen place, you decide to leave the house for food. You finally find parking, stomach...
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