Market Guide 2013 BUTCHERS (GENERAL) Cason’s Fine Meats  8238 N Denver Ave., 285-4533.  Theotis Cason opened his Kenton butcher shop in the summer of 2011 in a storefront just south of the towering Pau   More

Market Guide 2013 OILS Benessere Olive Oils and Balsamic 907 SW 9th Ave., 206-5317; 1428 NE Broadway, 281-6389; oilgoodness.com. This specialty oil and vinegar store opened downtown to very little fanfare—kind o   More

Market Guide 2013 BAKING The Decorette Shop 5338 SE Foster Road, 774-3760, thedecoretteshop.com. Closed Sunday. Did I hear you say you wanted to make chocolates in the shape of a fax machine, telephone or beeper?    More

Market Guide 2013 Portland is a city obsessed with rarefied goods, not just rarefied salts and olio nuovo but artisanal pastas from Italy and cheeses from everywhere. Thus, boutique markets.   More

Market Guide 2013 Fettuccine with Pork Ragu Chef Rachael Grossman, chef-owner at Artigiano (3302 SE Division St., 781-3040, artigianopdx.com) Ragu, though the name’s been bastardized by mass-market sauces, si   More

Market Guide 2013 Cully Community Market NE Killingsworth Street and 42nd Avenue. 10 am-2 pm Sundays, June 2-Sept. 29. cullycommunitymarket.org. Gladstone Farmers Market 580 Portland Ave. 10 am-4 pm Saturdays, June   More

News Portlanders love taxes. That's the tax-away from tonight's results in which bluer-than-blue Multnomah County provided enough "yes" votes to pass Measure 26-152, Metro's five-year operating levy to support greenspaces and natural areas. Portland voters did just enough to overcome tepid support in Washington County and outright hostility in Clackamas County.
The measure was passing 57 per...   More

News Steve Buel defeated incumbent Martin Gonzalez in Tuesday's election in the race for Portland Public Schools board for Zone 4, which includes North Portland.Buel—who has previously served on the board—is leading Gonzalez 54 percent to 44 percent in the race. Another 2 percent of votes went to write-in candidates.The two men also faced each other in 2009. Normally, t...   More

News As reported today on our website, only 21.5% of ballots for this year's May special election had been received as of the end of the day on Friday, May 17. That means that as many as 78.5% of you hadn't turned in your ballots, a mere four days before the ballot deadline o...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories For the seventh year, the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival—the only one of its kind in the country—returns for a weekend of gender-bending, boundary-breaking and cross-dressing, with a   More