Bar Reviews A room full of clown paintings—from thoughtful oils to black velvets and a Christ-like Ronald McDonald—would be enough to give anyone nightmares. But the “clown room” at Funhouse Lounge (2   More

Bar Reviews Ah, the debaucheries of spring break—dancing on bar tops, ill-advised shots, regret-filled mornings. Now every day can be filled with the hedonistic joy of sophomore year in Cancun at Splash B   More

Food Reviews & Stories Kettleman Bagels is in zombie mode. Things have slipped fast since the beloved local bagelry sold out last November to Colorado-based Einstein Bros. Kettleman’s superb boiled bagels...   More

Food & Drink Ever been on a statewide pub crawl? Unless your designated driver has a batmobile, you’re not going to make it to all 60-plus participating breweries for this year’s Zwickelmania before day’s end. (You’d probably also need Superman’s liver).
Luckily, the Oregon ...   More

Performance It just wouldn’t be Shakespeare without a little sexual subterfuge. Though it’s one of his lesser-known tales, Cymbeline employs many of the playwright’s favorite plot devices—mistaken ide   More

Books We love to hate. Reality television aside, few arenas highlight our hatred better than politics. In the 1800 presidential election, Thomas Jefferson’s campaign called John Adams “a hideous h   More

Bar Reviews A stuffed peacock roosts high on a shelf above the bar at The Box Social (3971 N Williams Ave., bxsocial.com). It’s a bold flash of décor for a bar, yet it doesn’t seem out of place in the in   More

Arts & Books Although you may have thought the vampire craze had long since reached critical mass and collapsed under its own bulging excess, it appears the trend has not yet been staked in the heart Walking the line somewhere between the chaste, no-biting-till-marriage vampires of Twilight and the fuck-anything-that-moves vamps of True Blood is Bite Me a...   More

Performance Fed up with yuppie brunch and his life in the liberal bubble in general, San Francisco native Dan Hoyle decided he needed to explore the oft-lauded “real America” of the 2008 presidential campa   More

Arts & Books Dan Hoyle says his epiphany came the day the journalist and playwright found himself sitting in a little garage cafe in San Francisco being offered sensitively prepared food crafted from morally conscious ingredients to help benefit the children of the Taliban, or "something to that effect."

“I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, what is America coming to?" recalls Hoyle. "I need to find the real America. I need to go to small-town, rural America to find it." And thus began a project that would lead to Hoyle’s critically acclaimed new solo show The Real Americans, which opens this week at Portland Center Stage. Hoyle spent 100 days traveling across the country in a van, taking the small back roads and visiting with the people of what Sarah Palin had infamously dubbed “the real America.” His resulting one-man show depicts the conversations he had along way, engagingly told through the accents of mannerisms of the people themselves via Hoyle’s innate talent for mimicry. WW sat down with Hoyle to talk about angry small towns and meat sandwiches.   More