SCOOP CIAO, MUFFULETTA: Purveyor of some of the city’s best sandwiches, Eastmoreland Market & Kitchen is shuttering after nearly five years...   More

SCOOP HOT IN HERRE: What’s up with random Alberta Street businesses catching on fire? In a scene reminiscent of the blaze that engulfed Aviary restaurant and Barista coffee shop a couple Fourths of    More

SCOOP BEERIDATION: Eyebrows raised as two well-known Oregon breweries appeared to be taking opposing sides of Portland’s heated fluoridation debate. Alex Ganum, owner of...   More

SCOOP THE TRUE STORY: In June, the face of Portland screwed into a collective cringe of faux-disgust as MTV announced that our humble city...   More

SCOOP START THE FIRE: Long before Southeast Division Street became restaurant row, Northwest’s “Trendy-third” was the spot to be from the 1980s until the Great Recession slammed it hard. By 2010   More

SCOOP HUGS AND KISSES: “This is so much better than SXSW.” Scoop must have heard this at least a dozen times during last weekend’s new arts and technology festival, XOXO. Indeed, while the Kicksta   More

SCOOP WIZARD WAR: The first Rose City Comic-Con was held last weekend, aiming to become a mainstream comics and pop-culture convention à la San Diego Comic-Con or Seattle’s Emerald City Comic-Con.    More

SCOOP BAND AID: Typhoon wants you...to help sell its stuff! The increasingly popular Portland indie-pop ensemble is searching for an “intern.” The job description sounds like what would have been call   More

SCOOP DEERAOKE: San Francisco quartet Deerhoof and Portland’s Baby Ketten Karaoke are putting a new twist on the album-release party. On Tuesday, Sept. 4, Mississippi Pizza hosts a very special karaok   More

SCOOP NEW PAD: Everything was not peachy at the now-closed Pok Pok Wing in Brooklyn. Last week, New York media reported that owner Andy Ricker was giving up his plan to open wing joints across the city    More