Headout My fellow Republicans, In recent days your normally truthworthy postman (I suppose the liberals would have us say postperson!) may have delivered a letter labeled “Official Election Ballot   More

Food Reviews & Stories Cameron Forsyth has never lived in Portland. This did not stop him from opening a Portland-centric restaurant in his native Canada. Yes, our city has a culinary embassy in Vancouver, B.C. The    More

Headout The first encyclopedia was written by Pliny the Elder. The Roman statesman died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which...   More

Drank Block 15 makes beer for the trading scene. The Corvallis brewery specializes in the unusual, cellar-ready and limited, building a fan base with open-fermented, wine barrel-aged brews made with gol   More

Food Cart Reviews What’s roujiamo supposed to taste like? Honestly, I have no idea. Prickly Ash’s version of the flatbread sandwich, China’s answer to the hamburger, is the only version I’ve had. The Miss   More

Restaurant Guide Life on the food frontier can be rugged and lonely. Ask Johanna Ware. As a child in Chicago, Ware remembers the quizzical reaction to the “crazy lunches” packed by a mother “who cooked her w   More

Features Who's the weird old person hanging around the packs of high school kids at Portland-area haunted houses? The one who reeks of good coffee and cheap gin? Yeah, that’s a Willamette Week writer out reviewing local haunts for Creeper Crawl 2012.
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Food Reviews & Stories Oaxaca is famous for inventing one of the world’s great cheeses. If you know how to pronounce the name of the southern Mexican state (wah-hah-ka) but not Xochitl or Tlaxcala, you probably owe    More

Drank Seattle’s Elysian Brewing is the pumpkin king of the Northwest, brewing 13 different pumpkin beers and hosting a massive pumpkin brew festival that draws entrants from as far away as Norway. E   More

Bar Reviews Barwares (4605 NE Fremont St., 971-229-0995, smallwarespdx.com) exists only because of an architectural fluke. Chef Johanna Ware’s Asian-leaning restaurant, Smallwares, needs a bar the same si   More