Arts & Books As if there weren't enough interesting theater to attend this week, three local companies have jumped into TBA's ten days o' fun interesting work for cheap.
Seth Nehil, whom I profiled in this week's paper, is presenting a preview of his show Children's Games this Sa...   More

Food & Drink First, the big news: Kalé, everyone's favorite Japanese curry joint, which abandoned its Goose Hollow home in March, has applied for a liquor license at 900 SW Morrison St.—the former Bush Garden restaurant, shuttered since 2009.Also, as reported elsewhere, Lorenzo's Italian restaurant on North Mississippi Avenue cl...   More

Arts & Books It didn't take long for things to get very awkward last night at the first performance of Get Mad at Sin!, actor Andrew Dinwiddie's uncannily faithful reenactment of a Jimmy Swaggart sermon, delivered in Van Buren, Ark. and released on vinyl in 1971 under the title The Ring of Fire: A Message for the Young People of Today.Let me back up a moment: ...   More

Cover Story The day is coming, not long from now, when you will have to go inside.
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Food & Drink A short list this week:Lyrik Cafe on Southeast 39th Avenue has new owners, who are seeking to turn the coffee shop into a bar.Lisa Lavochkin, according to her LinkedIn profile a former pastry cook at Manhattan's tony Core Club, has applied to open Barrel, a bottle shop, at 7401 N Burlington Ave. in downtown St. Johns...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Somebody hand Caleb McBee a pork-belly-shaped trophy. In his three-month-old Skin & Bones American Bistro, the former owner of much-missed Pearl-district bar Apotheke has succeeded in epitomizin   More

Food & Drink After last week's torrent, a smaller but still interesting batch of new license applications:A pair of women from Sherwood are opening Vine Gogh, an "artists bar and studio" in (of cours...   More

Food & Drink Lots of applications in this week's OLCC blast: First and most exciting, Prost! owner Dan Hart is teaming up with Tasty n Sons/Toro Bravo chef John Gorham and prolific restaurant investment firm Chefstable (whose portfolio includes Ping, St. Jack, Grüner and others) to open a new bar,    More

Bar Reviews Michael Shea, the co-owner of Rum Club (720 SE Sandy Blvd., 467-2469, rumclubpdx.com), describes his month-old bar as geographically and philosophically at the midway point between Beaker & Flas   More

Food & Drink Tres Shannon, co-owner of Voodoo Doughnut, and Polly Bangs, the founder of the at-risk youth job skills training program Urban Opportunities, will soon open Portand P Palace in a former car dealership at Northeast 24th Avenue and Sandy Boulevard.

What's a P Palace? According to Bangs, it's "Portland's Premier Putt-Putt Course serving Potables and Provisions...and a lot of other things that...   More