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Drank: Valley Weisse (Solera Brewery)


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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)


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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.


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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)


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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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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

The Last of the Jewish Cowboys

The profanity and the profundity of Kinky Friedman.


Music Stories
Remember Ann Richards? The former Texas governor, famous for the giant cotton ball on her head and for warning Girl Scouts about “Prince Charming on a motorcycle with a beer gut and a wandering    More
 
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Headout: Happy New Era

The end of a long, long count.


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High atop the temple of Xunantunich, a tour group enjoys a breeze as it looks out at the humid Central American jungle below. Standing on a gray pyramid that’s still the second-tallest structure   More
 
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Aria Portland Dry Gin (Aria)


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Stodgy old gin has seen something of a renaissance of late, with West Coast craft distillers livening it up with lavender, caraway and malted barley. “Gin” is broadly defined, with spirits f   More
 
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

The Blind Onion Pizza & Pub


Food Reviews & Stories
Are pizzas, like prophets, without honor only in their hometown? Founded in Portland in 1996, the Blind Onion Pizza & Pub has grown into a mini-chain with locations in Washington and Nevada.   More
 
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR
 

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