A photographer’s ’70s-era portraits of Portland’s lost souls get a new life.
Culture
Whatever Ellis Island’s pleasant fictions
about the poor, meek or hungry, Portland’s Old Town has always welcomed
them in earnest. It has been a century-long home to the transient or
boozy, whe
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Books
It is a common thing, beneath the deafening noise of
America’s Lohans and Kardashians, to hear tell that our culture—as a
result of reality television, willful illiteracy, celebrity worship, the
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Movie Reviews & Stories
There are things you don’t do on film, if you want to keep
your viewer’s sympathy. You don’t shoot toddlers, for one—especially
not in front of their mom. You don’t burn innocents alive. Y
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Books
Perhaps no American writer of the past 25 years has
inspired more devotion, hope and resentment than David Foster Wallace.
When his dense-prosed, block-paragraphed doorstopper, Infinite Jest,
dropp
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Secret Kebab will serve you anything (sometimes), so long as it’s kebab.
Food Reviews & Stories
Secret Kebab, as the name might suggest, is a
kebab-smuggling operation, steered by the unseen hand of a shadowy,
mustachioed figure known as Alparslan the Turk, who is also suspected of
being a li
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Books
It is natural to assume that the topography of a city is
fundamentally constant—that some half-distant ancestors found a
promising patch of earth and proceeded to sow the seeds for what would
ripen, as if inevitably, into the place we know well. But cities are
things of tumult
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Books
Sara Wheeler’s The Magnetic North: Notes From the Arctic Circle
(FSG, 315 pages, $26) quite literally describes a circle: Wheeler—a
London-based journalist—travels counterclockwise, in pie-sha
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This 82nd avenue joint is delicately Chinese and discreetly Korean.
Food Reviews & Stories
Chinese Delicacy restaurant, despite the
name, is not exactly a Chinese place—at least, not in any simple way.
Your first hint should be on the tiny
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Books
Until relatively recently—within the past 50 years, say—no
one had to be told not to waste their food, and certainly not as an
ecological or even public issue. It was simple common sense: Who th
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Food Reviews & Stories
Johns Landing’s unpromising melange of ’70s and ’80s
office frontage might seem an unlikely spot for an old-school rib
joint—Reo’s previous location was in similarly unlikely Aloha—and t
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