Food Reviews & Stories This grande dame of Portland cuisine has been wowing critics from around the country since long before our city was the darling of the national food press. And despite the surging thicket of new and ambitious Portland restaurants, the Heathman’s French-cum-Northwest flavors remain elite. A sal   More

Food Reviews & Stories THE RESTAURANT HAS SINCE CLOSED AND REOPENED UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP. The name isn’t French or Italian, but a reference to the corrugated aluminum siding cladding the anonymous Eliot neighborhood storefront. Behind this glinting exterior is a plush lounge serving an ambitious collection of small p   More

Q & A Magnus Johannesson is a lanky, 51-year-old art lover, rumored anarchist and confirmed Swede with deep roots in Portland’s Alberta Arts neighborhood real estate scene. He says he can see the futu ...   More

Special Section You love pirates? Screw you. On June 3, the United Nations voted to allow foreign navies to pursue pirates off the Somali coastline, where 26 ships have been attacked in the past year. Since the mid-& ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Holding down a grim corner of North Lombard Street, this cavernous establishment is home to an irregular mix of regulars. Rumpled tipplers hunker in booths while apple-cheeked University of Portland students slurp $1.50 Jell-O shots. It’s an arrangement of mutual tolerance made possible only w   More

Food Reviews & Stories With a color scheme evoking Crockett and Tubbs' sport coat collection and a patronage evoking American Apparel clerks, the Florida Room is one part Miami Beach and one part Portland, with a splash of V8. Repent Saturday night’s sins at Church of the Bloody Mary on Sundays, which serves up eigh   More

Food Reviews & Stories If it had an Alberta address, the Wishing Well would long ago have been co-opted by Portland’s cool kids. But stashed away in St. Johns, this lo-fi shithole (we mean that as a term of endearment) is preserved as a pristine example of where old drunks go to die. A weird vaulted ceiling hovers p   More

Food Reviews & Stories Nearly too slick for its own good, Slow Bar manages to walk a razor’s edge. This sleek shotgun shack of a bar somehow balances a thrashy punk jukebox with a menu featuring ceviche. And it works. Decide for yourself if you’re brave enough for raw fish with your wells, but Slow Bar’s   More

Featured Stories Portland is booming. Out-of-staters swarm here for their own slice of our progressive, probably vegan pie. And the national media dotes on our city like all 550,000 of us have a stash of comp ...   More

Featured Stories More than 50 stand-up comedians are descending on Portland for the first ever Bridgetown Comedy Festival, which will take place at the Mount Tabor Legacy and neighboring upper-Hawthorne Boulevard bars ...   More