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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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��
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FeaturesWW 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