Holes For Dips

Whatever your dysfunction, we have a swimmin’ hole for you.

Special Section One would think finding a swimming hole in Portland should be as easy as stepping outside your front door and listening for running water. But picking the perfect spot among the hundreds available isn ...   More

 

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Adrienne So

Put A Cork In It

All right, so liquor ain’t cheap, but don’t whine—make wine!

Special Section If corked finances have you drinking more three-buck Chuck lately than is reasonably healthy, we have a solution: Making fruit and flower wines at home is easy, and can cost next to nothing. All you n ...   More

 

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 LIZ CRAIN

Baby Got Bach

The best of the Summer’s non-pop music festivals.

Special Section June 22-July 26: Chamber Music NorthwestAs usual, some of the world’s finest classical musicians (Alan Vogel, David Shifrin, Daedalus Quartet, Fred Sherry, Colin Carr, André Watts, the re ...   More

 

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 BRETT CAMPBELL

Cinema Al Fresco

Get your movies out of the theater.

Special Section This summer’s lineup of outdoor movie screenings isn’t all family-picnic fare. Sure, there are the requisite recent popular flicks (Madagascar 2, Monsters vs. Aliens) and older, popcorny o ...   More

 

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Alex Peterson

Summer Soundtrack

Five albums to rock your world for the next three months.

Special Section June 7: Inside Voices, The Fortunes (Lasercave)One of Portland’s most promising young bands, Inside Voices has a debut that captures the trio’s incredible live chemistry in deceptively sim ...   More

 

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 MICHAEL MANNHEIMER

Sundays In The Parkway With Everybody

The City’s Sunday Parkways program is back—three times over.

Special Section While the staffs of Bicycling magazine and The New York Times continue to sacrifice their station wagons in praise of the bicycling haven that is our city, the Portland Bureau of Transportation is loo ...   More

 

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Caitlin Mccarthy

I’d Like to Give the World a Frank

Hot dogs are the U.S.A.’s gift to the world. Don’t defile them with ketchup. Ever.

Special Section Like American cheese or American cars, American food conjures images of bland mediocrity. But the most American food of all (fuck apple pie) evokes fireworks and steroids, baseball and drunken fistfig ...   More

 

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Ethan Smith

Yes We Canoe

I paddled the Willamette, and so can you.

Special Section Behold, the mighty Willamette! It flows mere minutes from our front yards, yet few of us pay it much notice when it’s not hosting dragon boat races or Christmas ship parades. Not me, though. I r ...   More

 

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Adrienne So

Drink Top Fives

Our Drink Guide list of lists.

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