SCOOP FINAL MOVEMENT: Unless it can raise $100,000 before month’s end, the Vancouver Symphony will have to cancel its 2011-12 season, the group’s board of directors says. In an open letter posted on th   More

SCOOP ANOTHER FRENCH RESTAURANT! Anthony Demes, whose modern French bistro, Couvron, wowed diners first in Portland and then, after a cross-country move, in Manhattan, has applied for a liquor license fo   More

SCOOP FUR PARTY: Montreal duo Handsome Furs created a bit of a stir recently upon revealing the album art for its forthcoming record Sound Kapital—a dark, moody photo of a tattooed naked woman standing be   More

SCOOP RESTAURANT HAPPENINGS: After meaty Northeast eatery Belly closed in April, Northwest izakaya Tanuki has designs on moving in, applying for a liquor application last week. >> Australian pie store   More

SCOOP GRIMM UNCERTAINTY: Word leaked Thursday evening that NBC has picked up a full season of the fairy-tale cop series Grimm, which filmed its pilot in Portland. But before you don your favorite troll co   More

SCOOP GOING FOR GOLD: Portland Mercury music editor Ezra Caraeff is planning to open a bar called the Old Gold. Caraeff applied for a full liquor license in April for 2105 N Killingsworth St., next to the   More

SCOOP THE SEATTLE SOUND (OF TINY VIOLINS): Fleet Foxes frontman and newly minted Portlander Robin Pecknold hit out at the band’s home ground of Seattle on the Twitters last week, stating: “Both weekli   More

SCOOP CART ATTACK: WW held its annual Eat Mobile food cart festival on Saturday, April 23, with nearly 3,000 eaters gathering under the Morrison Bridge to sample from 39 different carts and vote for their    More

SCOOP PUB IN A PICKLE: Sometime Portland film producer John Albert has applied for a liquor license to open Stone Pickle Deli & Pub in the Kenton neighborhood space that formerly housed short-lived cock   More

SCOOP LUTZ LIVES: When the beloved Lutz Tavern, reportedly the first bar to sell Pabst to hipsters, closed in September after 56 years of beer-only business, Woodstock residents responded with a mix of a   More