Food Reviews & Stories This sharply tailored place, with its black awnings and amber-colored walls, has the buzz of a Brooklyn Italian cafe and the menu to back it up. Michael Cronin’s Mingo has been a consistent purveyor of simple European fare for years, and a recent visit shows that the place isn’t coasting   More

News Since our new design was released last week, we've been swamped with responses, both in emails sent to me and in comments posted on wweek.com. We've been thrilled at the positive feedback, and even the critical barbs have mostly been useful. But we were frankly unprepared for the number of commenters who said that, at first blush, our logo...   More

News In 1996, Nintendo 64 was released, Tupac Shakur was shot and killed, Noah’s Bagels opened its first outpost in Portland, Dolly the Sheep was cloned and the Fox Tower broke ground. It was also th ...   More

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Parents of kids in Portland Public Schools may want to postpone their purchases of pickled artichokes, fine Pinot and Harris Ranch beef and wait to shop at the newly remodeled Burnside Zupan's March 2-4. The grocery store is donating 5% of all sales those days to the Portland Schools Foundation....   More

News The King is dead.On Saturday, at the age of 83, one of America's greatest investigative reporters passed away.Jack Anderson could be hyperbolic and self-righteous. In other words, he had the ideal tra ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories This Tuscan-influenced restaurant ranks among the most relaxing of any restaurant in Lake O—rustic tables, beautiful plank floors, soft sponge-painted walls and warm lighting. The package is complemented by a bar with the best selection of grappa this side of the Sellwood Bridge. The cuisine s   More

News Last week, Attorney General Hardy Myers cleared Neil and Diana Goldschmidt of any criminal wrongdoing in their dealings with Texas Pacific Group. But at least two of Diana Goldschmidt's former colleag ...   More

News It's astonishing that this stinker has even gotten this far.It has had a bad smell from the day it was first proposed. And in the intervening 14 months, the aroma has only gotten fouler.Despite this, ...   More

News GUANGZHOU, CHINA--This week's cover story is hardly trivial. Highlighting news that deserves more attention is a worthy task. But after a couple of weeks in China, observing real state censorship in a ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories [WINE] With the best location in the entire Northwest (right next door to WW’s office), L&E offers a broad range of inventory, good pricing and an affinity for the wines of France. Tastings every Saturday and every other Friday night have become social events, and if the mood strikes you,    More