Food Reviews & Stories The menu at Little Bird Bistro, the new French restaurant opened in December by Le Pigeon chef Gabe Rucker, takes a page from Larousse Gastronomique, the authoritative encyclopedia of Gallic eating.    More

Performance Let’s hear it for likable losers. Not the self-pitying sad sacks and creepy men-children that populate the résumés of Seth Rogen and Paul Giamatti, but the pleasant dope who for some reason   More

Arts & Books Artists Rep announced its 29th season today, and it looks like we're in for some very artistically ambitious productions: Beginning with Yasmina Reza's hit God of Carnage in September, the company will cram in a classic Pinter (No Man's Land) before the obligatory holiday comedy (Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol). 2012 brings an adaptation of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi  by former Portland playwright Joseph Fisher, Annie Baker's obie-winning acting class drama, Circle Mirror Transformation, the terrific musical Next to Normal and David Mamet's latest, Race. The full press release is after the jump.   More

Arts & Books Let's hear it for crowd-sourcing! This week's eyesore comes from reader Mike Banker, who writes, "It's mostly the blindness to scale that I like about this house and it's columns."Mike's right—those are some Brobdingnagian columns, better suited to holding up a courthouse than the roof of an otherwise fairly attractive bungalow. But I think we shouldn't be too hasty to dismiss the massive suppor...   More

Arts & Books Portland musical theater company Stumptown Stages will hold auditions Thursday and Friday, March 24-25, for Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's musical Once on This Island, which Stumptown is co-producing with the excellent Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre. "We are looking for African-American actors who can sing and move well" says Stumptown director Kirk Mouser. "This collaborative production is a huge opportunity for Portland actors. All roles are paid and housing is provided."The full audition announcement is after the cut.   More

Arts & Books This former pharmacy, built in 1922, is actually my favorite building on Southeast Foster Road. I love the elegant curve of the facade and the detailed brickwork on the second story. But for a very long time, since before I first saw it, the storefront has been wrapped in hideous fencing and left to molder. Many of the windows are broken, and the lathe and plaster walls inside appear to be crumbli...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Since January we’ve eaten arancine, banh mi, crêpes, döner kebab, egg sandwiches, fries, gyros, hamburgers, ice cream, jiaozi, kolaches, lamb kebab, mac ’n’ cheese, naan, omelettes, pancakes, quesadillas, ribs, salad rolls, tacos, unagi rolls, veggie burgers, waffles, xiao long bao, yakisoba and za’atar. See what I did there?    More

Food Reviews & Stories It is very odd, this relatively swank Vietnamese restaurant around the corner from Food4Less, all bamboo plywood, faux temple doors and big orange lamps like bioluminescent jellyfish. It seats 50, b   More

Food Reviews & Stories Lisa Herlinger, creator of the Ruby Jewel ice-cream sandwich, offers way more flavors at this spumoni-toned shop than you’ll find between the cookies at farmers markets and premium grocers across    More

Food Reviews & Stories For a neighborhood in proximity to a college, Woodstock falls short in the restaurant department. Reedies looking to do better than Delta Cafe have to hoof it all the way up to Southeast 48th Avenue   More