In The Renegade Sportsman, Zach Dundas unearths the foul-mouthed, fun-loving future of sports, starting right here in PDX.
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It’s time for sports fans to start playing a new game—one that’s cheaper; less fame-obsessed. That’s what Zach Dundas, a Portland-based freelance journalist (and former WW staf ...
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As Oregon’s title hopes fade, reality sets in. Pass the gravy, please.
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Here’s a bet. When you sit down to Thanksgiving dinner, many people at the table—maybe Uncle Izzy, maybe the second cousin you’ve always had a disturbing crush on—will not jus ...
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The whole media universe is humping Portland. We dissect the hype, and how the hell we got here.
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Fellow citizens, it has come to this: Portland needs a restraining order against the national media. We are being stalked. The New York Times is giving us that look again. It makes us feel...funny. B ...
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Wisdom and warning from America's tourism shock trooper.
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World travel was once a taxing affair. Beyond the hoary old Grand Tour destinations of Europe, an adventurer needed tycoon cash or brass genitalia of Indiana Jones grade. These days, though, destinati ...
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Portland's Timbers face off against Italy's Ronaldo-worshiping, ex-prime minister pets AC Milan.
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Soccer: A chance to explore other cultures, plus drink beer and wear seasonally inappropriate scarves. This Tuesday night, fans of the Portland Timbers enjoy a rare opportunity to do all of the above& ...
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Oregon's medical marijuana growers want to win respect, help the sick...and grow the kindest bud on the planet.
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A miniature version of Eden grows in Chris Duback's deep-Southeast Portland basement. But there is trouble in paradise.Visitors wouldn't notice the danger. Everything in this small, white-walled room ...
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Food Reviews & Stories
North Mississippi Avenue was mostly boarded up when this congenial, homespun 'za shop opened about five years back. Now, it's a venerable anchor of the little cluster of cafes and shops lining this pocket-sized main street. With knock-about furniture, a live-music lineup that's eclectic to the point
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Just south of Division, Fu Bonn, a multiethnic Asian mall, looms like a spaceship from Planet Beijing. Its vast grocery teems with fried quail, red-bean snowballs, Japanese baby biscuits, Korean cookies, bundles of raw organ meat for Vietnamese pho, yakisoba and Oregon-made sake. Within the mall, S
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Thanks to a gang of coffee fanatics, Portland is the center of a new microbrew revolution.
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They are everywhere. Walk Portland's streets, and it seems they line every block, monopolize every choice street corner.Coffee shops. Not the scores of Starbucks outposts, though they are as invasive ...
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A PSU prof talks about the history of conspiracy theories, from 9/11 all the way back to, um, Voltaire.
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Secret explosive caches, not Mohamed Atta and company, brought down the Twin Towers. The Bush administration knew the attacks were coming. In fact, the U.S. government itself planned the most devastat ...
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