Night Avenger Forget strip clubs and Voodoo Doughnut theme nights--the "next best thing" in Portland bar culture has arrived. And you won't find it downtown. In order to take in this phenomenon, you've got to h ...   More

Hitched Becca Uherbelau might be the daughter of a former state legislator--and she might run in her own political circles--but she's no square.Becca, the 29-year-old spokeswoman for county chairwoman Diane ...   More

Night Avenger No one was surprised when the Old Town club Banana Joe's closed earlier this year. The club, a 15,000-square-foot tropically themed meat market, was a place where dancing on tables and OLCC troubl ...   More

Hitched When Jeffrey Kaye first met Annagrace O'Dea in the fall of 2001, he didn't think he would stand a chance with her."She's gorgeous and smart," he says of Annagrace. "I've always been shy around new ...   More

Featured Stories First impressions can be a bitch. Depending on whom you ask, they can be spot-on indicators of personality and lifestyle or superficial, dead-wrong glimpses of someone who is, essentially, a stran ...   More

Night Avenger If one phrase came to mind during last Thursday's opening night for the Diesel Portland store it was this:"Welcome to Not Portland."Everything you've come to expect from grand openings for chi-chi n ...   More

Night Avenger This weekend, one of Portland's most successful hip-hop nights celebrates its first birthday.It's called Thorn City Improv--ever heard of it? Didn't think so.It's not like the weekly event, hosted i ...   More

Hitched Tiki torches and rainbow-bright Tibetan prayer flags framed the outdoor amphitheater at the McMenamins Edgefield hotel in Troutdale. It was a hot summer day, and the festive decorations offered th ...   More

Night Avenger Unless you're one of those Halloween superfans who's been planning a spooky get-up for months, chances are you haven't thought about a costume for, oh, 364 days. And because Halloween falls on a F ...   More

Hitched In today's wired world of Internet dating, online hook-ups between gay men might be more likely to lead to one-night stands than wedding bells. For Michael Curnes and Richard Thompson--who met in Ju ...   More