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 More
Shot In Old Town
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 More
Paul Collins Murder of the Century
Dying to be famous.
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 More
Incendies
Wish you were here, the suffering is beautiful.
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 More
David Foster Wallace The Pale King
Boredom ain’t boring.
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 More
Pre-Midnight Express
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 More
Portland's Goose Hollow Tracy J. Prince with Bud Clark
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 More
Sara Wheeler The Magnetic North
Northern soul.
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 More
I’ll Have What She’s Having
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 More
Jonathan Bloom American Wasteland
Fine foodstuff is a terrible thing to waste.
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 More
Cheap Eats 2011: Reo's Ribs
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 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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