Performance For the first 45 minutes of Profile Theatre’s My Children! My Africa!, you may think a latter-day Mr. Chips has single-handedly defeated the entire edifice of 1980s-era South African apartheid w More
My Children! My Africa! (Profile Theatre)
Starts with sugar, ends with meat.
Performance For the first 45 minutes of Profile Theatre’s My Children! My Africa!, you may think a latter-day Mr. Chips has single-handedly defeated the entire edifice of 1980s-era South African apartheid w More
Headout: Know Your Sausage
Jawohl! Maifest, Germany’s oldest sausage party, is here.
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Headout Oktoberfest gets a lot of column inches—the legislated purity of Bavarian beer, the goofy hats, the giant urinal troughs—while Maifest always gets short shrift. And who does not excite himse More
Gary Greenberg, The Book of Woe
Crazy for claims forms.
Books As a defense mechanism, the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders was equal parts identification and repression. Having weathered a decade of attacks from the More
Pretty, Dumb
Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby remakes the ’20s for the tweens.
Movie Reviews & Stories Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby begins, appropriately enough, with decoration—a gold-filigreed frame that accordions outward in 3-D before suddenly cutting to a swimmy shot of More
Cardinal Club: Direction Unknown
Bar Reviews While the world around it bathed in filthy lucre, now-defunct dive bar Chin Yen was a dimly lit, dirt-cheap holdout of turpentine drinks and oil-slick Chinese food, home to old men who fought th More
In a Neat Little Roe
Former Fin chef Trent Pierce works wonders in Wafu’s back room.
Food Reviews & Stories Going to Roe is a bit like passing into the Egyptian afterlife. Before you reach its peaceful space, you must first pass through the land of wish fulfillment—in this case, the lively food tunn More
Bar Guide 2013: Editor's Note
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Bar Guide 2013 After long marches through Portland’s bars, pubs, lounges, taverns and brewpubs, we’ve come to believe that bars age a lot like the wine or whiskey served at them. Only a few are at their ve More
Bar of the Year 2013: Victory Bar
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Bar Guide 2013 Rare that a name is as felicitous as Victory Bar’s. Willamette Week’s first-ever Bar of the Year isn’t shiny or new or even particularly fashionable. It’s just a goddamn winner. The bar came More
Bar Guide 2013: Old Town Drag
Where nobody knows your name.
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Bar Guide 2013 “Best-looking women in Portland!” says the man in the street. He wasn’t talking about anyone nearby: He was making an offer. Promising immediate access to “40 of Portland’s hottest women, More
The Tannery Bar: Go to the Mountain
Bar Reviews The Tannery Bar (5425 E Burnside St., 236-3610) is the location’s former business, Skin & Bones, stripped of fat and cured in alcohol. The tiny room consists of a one-plank bar, a pair of More
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This 82nd avenue joint is delicately Chinese and discreetly Korean. The Tooth of the Matter
A new call to put fluoride in the city’s water raises old fears. Mari-Wanna?
Oregon and two other states are huffing and puffing toward legalizing weed. But don’t buy that bong just yet. Jonathan Bloom American Wasteland
Fine foodstuff is a terrible thing to waste. Paul Collins Murder of the Century
Dying to be famous. Portland's Goose Hollow Tracy J. Prince with Bud Clark
A Fine Show
Tony Demes is back with Noisette. Restaurant Guide 2012: Off the Hook
The secrets of good sushi. Driving After the Influence
If Washington legalizes dope, driving there could become risky for tokers. Drink 2012: High Culture, Low Places
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