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

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