Headout Gabrielle Hamilton has a childhood memory of her French, ballet-dancer mother traipsing across the yard of a New Jersey dairy farm in heels and a silk scarf, smoking a cigarette, as she purchased h   More

Food Reviews & Stories If you’re the kind of person who does everything you can to avoid making a decision, Queen of Sheba won’t cause you any stress. Two people can easily take on four or five distinctly flavored ent   More

Food Reviews & Stories Steeped in French decor, with accordion practically wheezing from the woodwork, Suzette is a crêpe-serving food-cart/restaurant hybrid. Order from the camper-turned-kitchen out back and then follow   More

Food Reviews & Stories Shaped like oversized M&Ms, the pita at Ya Hala comes out of the kitchen in steamy, soft heaps, ready to be dipped in your choice of creamy vegetable or bean paste. Ya Hala offers all the Lebane   More

Food Reviews & Stories Byways is best enjoyed when your head is pounding and you need some food to devour as you try to remember what all happened last night. The travel-themed decor and ample bar seating is classic diner   More

Food Reviews & Stories With a meat-centered menu that could cure the most severe protein deficiency, Pause can churn out a substantial lunch or dinner for under $10. Pause looks somewhere between a diner and a sports bar,   More

Food Reviews & Stories While the elegant light fixtures and decoratively carved wooden booths might indicate spendy dining, Pho Van on Hawthorne is a good bargain. Although takeout is nice, with good service and nice pain   More

Food Reviews & Stories In the land of beer cinemas and cocktail-mixing coffee shops, a sweets shop that serves liquor is an automatic hot spot. After nine years, this Portland institution is still turning out an array of    More

Books From the title, Sugar Snaps and Strawberries (Timber Press, 224 pages, $19.95) sounds like a frilly coffee-table topper filled with glossy photos of impractical projects crafted in the name of DIY    More

News Kiwis In Portland is hosting a fundraiser for the victims of the Christchurch earthquake tonight, Wednesday, March 2, at 6 pm at the Buffalo Gap. Funds raised in the silent auction and raffle (in which you could win Icebreaker outdoor apparel) will go to the New Zealand Red Cross. Party like the Kiwis do,...   More