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’Couve Crawl

A night out in Portland’s northern neighbor.


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   More
 
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 RUTH BROWN, MARTIN CIZMAR, REBECCA JACOBSON, MATTHEW SINGER

Paradise City

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,   More
 
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Gift Guide 2012: The Lifestylist


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   More
 
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Daft Dunk

Portland's finest coffee and doughnut pairings.


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   More
 
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Growing Rogue

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   More
 
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Drank: Bocca d’Avolo 2010 (Chateau Taylor-Taylor)


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   More
 
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

The Wurst: Sausage Party


Bar Reviews
The high-def version of Big Buck Hunter looks nothing like the primitive arcade cabinet I remember from the rural America of my younger years. The deer flash vivid terror in their big brown eyes   More
 
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

El Diablito


Food Cart Reviews
Demographic shifts have profoundly altered the Alphabet District lunch crowd. In the last few months, redevelopment of Slabtown warehouses has brought the neighborhood a hungry and frugal blue-col   More
 
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Japandroids: Tuesday, Nov. 13

Cool rockin’ daddies born in the B.C., eh.


Music Stories
[BUDDY ROCK] Japandroids had the breakup talk. After three rough years booking their own little shows in Vancouver, B.C., the exuberant power duo was planning to call it quits, self-releasing its    More
 
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Paley’s Other Place

Imperial is plenty ambitious, but not quite ready to rule.


Food Reviews & Stories
Vitaly Paley makes a mean stack of flapjacks. Although he has operated Paley’s Place in the Alphabet District since 1995, we’re only now learning about his pancake prowess thanks to the breakf   More
 
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR
 

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