SCOOP KAVA PARTY: A business touting itself as “Portland’s first kava bar” has opened up on Southeast Division Street. Bula Kava House trades in the Polynesian herbal drink known for its alcohol-free   More

SCOOP BALDWIN WATCH, PART 4: It has been 16 months since the beginning of the Great Daniel Baldwin Experiment, in which the fearlessly tweeting Celebrity Fit Club veteran promised to bring Portland a telev   More

SCOOP ESCAPE TO NEW YORK: Portland movie directors James Westby and Ian McCluskey both have invites to premiere their latest projects in Manhattan next month. Westby’s breakup horror-comedy Rid of Me and    More

SCOOP HAPPY HEDGEHOG: Porn king Ron Jeremy was in Portland celebrating his 58th birthday over the weekend, throwing a party at his downtown swingers’ club, Sesso, with Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hof and   More

SCOOP PIE HIGH: Salem’s Straight From New York Pizza appears to have applied for a liquor license for one half of the former Dixie Mattress Co. building—two doors down from where It’s A Beautiful Pi   More

SCOOP FROM THE ASHES: Two bar spaces with miserable histories are set for revival this year. Frank Faillace, owner of Dante’s, Devil’s Point and Lucky Devil Lounge, is reopening Old Town’s Star Theatre, Bliss, etc.) as a music venue. >> The building   More

SCOOP GRAMMY LADY: Diehard fans of that cherubic Canadian waif Justin Bieber are outraged that the singer lost the Best New Artist Grammy award to Esperanza Spalding, a jazz bassist and singer who, in ad   More

SCOOP R.I.P., BARRY HAMPTON: There are a handful of musicians in this town who are so well known and loved that you simply couldn’t avoid them if you tried. Barry Hampton, who died Friday, Feb. 4, due to complications from a recent illness, was one of them. Known for his own band, the Triple Grip,    More

SCOOP NO. 1 CUP: Portland’s caffeine dealers reigned supreme at the Northwest Regional Barista Competition and Brewers Cup, held in Tacoma last weekend. In the Barista Competition, Coava Coffee’s Sam   More

SCOOP  RUBBER HITS THE PIFF: The most intriguing addition to the 34th Portland International Film Festival: Grindhouse Film Festival curator Dan Halsted h   More