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
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Headout
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
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Drank
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
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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.
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Featured Stories
Vancouver’s nightlife is not bountiful, but it is
comprehensive. Along downtown’s Main Street corridor, you’ll find an
Irish bar, a sports bar, a martini bar, a wine bar, a discoteca, a
br
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Take me to Vancouver, where the grass is legal and gays can marry.
Cover Story
Civilization beckons with red and orange
lights. They’re faint at first, glowing brighter as you drive north. The
little green sign marking the border sneaks up on you.
“Entering Washington,
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Culture
Within easy reach of desert, river, waterfall, lake,
mountain or ocean, Portland has always bred and attracted an army of
lifestyle heroes—dabblers in the unspeakably arcane arts of being
outs
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Food Reviews & Stories
I was nervous the first time, shuffling
my feet and crumpling the top of the paper bag as I waited for the
barista’s attention. “I want something that will go well with this,” I
offer caut
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Medford’s Porter Lombard makes wine unlike anyone.
Drank
Porter Lombard’s laboratory is dim and cluttered, its
shelves packed with mismatched bottles of purple and red fluid
surrounded by knives, beakers, notebooks, plastic tubing and one giant
wood
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Drank
We mustn’t begrudge successful rock musicians their
gentlemanly hobbies. As with all gentry who didn’t amass their fortunes
by working too terribly hard, they’re tasked with developing pursu
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