Features Friday, Jan. 11

Slingshot
[COMEDY] Sketch-comedy virtuosos Shelley McClendon and Michael Fetters, collectively known as the Aces, inaugurate a new comedy series called Slingshot, a collaboration between Bad Reputation Productions and Portland Center Stage. Channeling a brand of comedy that’s both hammy and smart, McClendon and Fetters were last seen together...   More

Features Friday, Dec. 28

Food 4 Less Memorial Shopping Spree
[FOOD] Get your ajvar on for one of the last times at Oregon's last Food 4 Less store. It'll be closing soon, date TBD. The franchise [read: local] store, for the time being, remains dense with Russian, Hispanic and Asian goods serving its highly diversified neighbor...   More

Features Friday, Nov. 23

Inviting Desire  [THEATER] Actor Eleanor O’Brien, known for her frank and funny variety shows about sex, presents a fresh installment about sexual relationships and their many permutations. Those uncomfortable with candid conversations about strapons, group sex and kinky fantasies should best stay home. ...   More

Features Friday, November 16Titus Andronicus, Ceremony
[MUSIC] Local Business, the band’s new album, finds it drawing back from the lofty heights of its concept album, The Monitor, returning to the scraggly, beery-eyed glory of its 2008 debut. Opening with a roaring three-song suite, the record rips from rousing Springsteenisms to Replacements-style emotional bloodletting...   More

Features Each week our culture scientists rank their 10 favorite things in the universe. The resulting list is infallible. The list is perfect. If you don't agree with the list, you are wrong. Some items may stay atop the list for weeks, others may only make a brief a...   More

Features Friday, Nov. 2

Hitchcock Festival[FILM] Alfred Hitchcock is getting extra attention this fall thanks to a feature film and an HBO original movie. See Hitchcock’s best films, including Vertigo, Psycho and Rear Window. Read more here.    More

Features Friday, Oct. 26

Night of the Living Ales
[HALLOWEEN] Craft beer and Halloween, together again. Night of the Living Ales this year promises a costume competition, burlesque, go-go dancers, music from Boy Eats Drum Machine and Oh Darling and beers from Burnside, Oakshire, Upright, Ninkasi, Bushwhacker, Lompoc and others. Bur...   More

Features Each week our culture scientists rank their 10 favorite things in the universe. The resulting list is infallible. The list is perfect. If you don't agree with the list, you are wrong. Some items may stay atop the list for weeks, others may only make a brief appearance. Some items are Portland-centric, but only because Portland is at the center of the universe. Please do not write to us, ask...   More

Features Each week our culture scientists rank their 10 favorite things in the universe. The resulting list is infallible. The list is perfect. If you don't agree with the list, you are wrong. Some items may stay atop the list for weeks, others may only make a brief appearance. Some items are Portland-centric, but only because Portland is at the center of the universe. Please do not write to us, ask...   More

Features 1. The return of the swifts
Still the hottest birds-going-into-a-chimney event Portland has, y'all.

2. Cucumber gose
The late-summer seasonal beer from Breakside Brewing is a combination of cucumbers, sea salt and lactic acid that tastes way better than those things should taste.

3. Johann Sebastian Joust
The party game to end all party games...   More