News The Portland Timbers have spent 427 minutes since they’ve last found the back of the other team’s net—notwithstanding an own goal by Sporting Kansas City on April 21. In that time, the defense has compensated considerably; three of the past four games have been shutouts, and the Timbers defense has currently gone 206 minutes without allowing a goal.

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News One of the primary things that seems to characterize the business startup community—and this should probably come as no surprise—is the generalized optimism of the recent convert. 
Immix and Keen Healthcare founder Jerry Carleton, in a speech to the assembled crowd at Startup Weekend on Sunday, told any would-be entrepreneurs that if t...   More

News A mild hiccup Saturday at Startup Weekend: A man who’d apparently arrived to heckle the aspirant entrepreneurs had sent a bomb threat via Twitter after being quietly ejected from the building earlier in the day. Amid brief protective police presence—six officers, three cars—the 17 teams doggedly kept building their products in the ...   More

News WW arrived at Sway Bar last night, Thursday, January 27, with implausibly high hopes; we had been informed that fallen celeb Gallagher--hammer swinger, melon ruiner, shirt stainer, honky Cheech Marin--was set to perform for free, on a whim, at the label party for Portland's One-Hour Pharmacy Records showcase.
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Food Reviews & Stories “What can I get nice people today?” This is Muhamed Mujcic-Mufko, owner of 4-4-2, a new Bosnian soccer bar that he’s opened up in his old Taste of Europe market space on Southeast Ha ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Violetta, once a popular food cart, has now found fixed housing in a modernist glass box in Director Park on the South Park Blocks, just adjacent to a strangely gonadal fountain devoted to the spirit of teaching.   More

Food Reviews & Stories The oh-so-humbly-lowercased [not here! -Ed.] remnant of the Ripe conglomerate is named for a duplex of pioneers, and along with its now-defunct sister restaurants it was indeed one of the granddaddies of the modern regime of Northwest dining: local, organic, seasonal ingredients; casual-industrial d   More

Food Reviews & Stories Higgins’ interior is generic dark hardwood and white tablecloth, its mood elegantly formal, its servers breezily chin-up. For a restaurant that pioneered Pacific Northwest cuisine and local seasonal ingredients, the mood inside—even in the less swanky bistro—couldn’t have les   More

Food Reviews & Stories Karam, in Lebanese, means “generous.” The owners aren’t kidding. This downtown locale remains my favorite Lebanese restaurant in Portland, and not merely because of the genuinely off-this-planet, out-of-your-gourd grape leaves and sterling falafel. Both in portions and in spirit, o   More

Food Reviews & Stories Noble Rot is what a wine bistro should be: refined but casual, friendly, open to the air—as if you were on any European avenue and not Southeast Ankeny Street. You can order by the glass or the bottle, of course, and avail yourself of your server’s gentle nudgings, but the wines also com   More