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Winter Guide 2013: The Nearest Mountain

Our mountain-bike scene sorta sucks. The Lumberyard helps.


Featured Stories
People move to Portland with high expectations for all things outdoors. Ask Will Heiberg. A decade ago, Heiberg, now 44, moved here from Washington, D.C., expecting the best of Western life. Mostl   More
 
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 MARTIN CIZMAR

The Lumberyard: Do the Brew


Bar Reviews
If you’re not riding or chaperoning, the best time to show up at the bar inside The Lumberyard (2700 NE 82nd Ave., 252-2453, lumberyardmtb.com) is about 8:15 pm on a Tuesday. That’s when riders    More
 
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 MARTIN CIZMAR

Blue Star Donuts


Food Reviews & Stories
Fried chicken with fancy doughnuts is, apparently, a thing. The combination has taken the East Coast by storm, with four such shops announced in Washington, D.C., alone. But, as best as I can    More
 
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 MARTIN CIZMAR

Beer: Hit the Lites


Bar Reviews
No one was expecting Lauren to show up at Beer (1410 SE Stark St., 233-2337, facebook.com/BeerPortland). Sure, on paper, Beer is just a generically named bar with $2.50 Miller Lites next to a shop   More
 
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 MARTIN CIZMAR

Drank: Valley Weisse (Solera Brewery)


Drank
The tiny town of Parkdale doesn’t have a stoplight, but it has a brewery. Journeyman brewer Jason Kahler took over the shuttered Elliot Glacier Public House last April, making his own brews in   More
 
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 MARTIN CIZMAR

Drank: O’Dark:30 (Oakshire Brewing)


Drank
Oakshire’s O’Dark:30 is a brew born of war. Like other beers of the newish style known locally as Cascadian Dark Ale, it represents an audacious plot to force an alliance between piney, resi   More
 
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 MARTIN CIZMAR

Lonesome Hearts Club

It’s time to take everyone’s favorite crazy pizzeria seriously.


Food Reviews & Stories
Lonesome’s Pizza was too weird to fail. Of course Portlanders fell for the quirky, late-night pizzeria like a nebbishy male lead playing opposite Zooey Deschanel. Toppings include edible glitter,   More
 
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 MARTIN CIZMAR

Headout: Sweep the Stoop

The most polite yet expedient way to get strangers off your porch.


Headout
The Book of Mormon opens on a doorstep very much like your own. The smash Broadway musical, making a six-day Portland run this week, begins with the clear-eyed, full-hearted, short-sleeved prota   More
 
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 MARTIN CIZMAR

Drank: Milk Stout (Widmer Brothers)


Drank
To answer your first question: Yes, this is beer with milk in it. Sort of, anyway. Milk stouts are made by adding lactose, the sugar in cow’s milk, to a base of dark, chocolaty malts. Brewer��   More
 
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 MARTIN CIZMAR

From the Vault: Karen Brooks Reviews Don Gronquist

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Features
WW is inaugurating a new Web feature, From the Vault, in which we resurrect timely or interesting articles from our archives for your post-dated perusal. In this week's print edition of WW you'll find a feature that rounds up some of long-time Portland food Karen Brooks'   More
 
Thursday, December 20, 2012 by MARTIN CIZMAR
 

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