Screen I have a trivial confession: I am an inveterate and unrepentant movie-hopper. I have spent full eight-hour workdays at the cineplex exhausting its options, emerging dazed and spent and viciously hypog ...   More

Performance Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel has always been an oddity in opera. Its music owes as much to the larky simplicities of folk songs and musical theater as it does to Wagnerian Sturm und ...   More

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It's rare that this particular reviewer is often moved to hyperbole—the language of flattery is taxed to the point of simple meaninglessness—but it's worth saying: Home Made is perhaps the single most powerful performance piece to have come out of Port...   More

Food Reviews & Stories After a half-decade, Loncheria Mitzil Mexican Eatery remains a secret mostly untold outside of Oregon City—the province of locals, lunchtime rushers and loyal regulars. Even the door, demurely t ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Yes, the Northwest 21st Avenue Italian bistro’s Swiss Miss roof does betray its beginnings as a Tastee-Freez, but its interiors are appealingly warm, earthy, dark and date-friendly. When Bastas opened in 1992 it was Portland’s favored spot for upscale Italian, but it hasn’t always    More

Food Reviews & Stories To most Portlanders, the Daily Cafe is a Pearl District diner landmark—though they have two other locations—with mix-’n’-match $14 prix fixe morning fare (scarily, they call it “price-fix,” just like the petrol companies do) ranging from Korean bibimbap to eggy ha   More

Food Reviews & Stories Navarre, in northern Spain, is considered an “autonomous region,” and Portland’s Navarre, something of a pan-Continental tapas restaurant, has likewise cultivated its own autonomous gastronomic space. The spices are exceedingly simple—salt and pepper, say—to let the act   More

Food Reviews & Stories Vitaly Paley’s place helped define early on what Portland’s restaurants would eventually be known for—local, fresh, seasonal food, attentive to each individual ingredient, served in a Continental style adventurously adapted to its surroundings. Almost alone among Northwest cuisine&   More

Food Reviews & Stories In Portland, which lacks any tradition of family-run Italian cuisine—or any notion of tradition at all—the truly courageous move is to buck the silly notion that only nouveau-cuisine whimsy should prevail and instead open an old-school Italian trattoria (in the trend-addled Pearl, no les   More

Food Reviews & Stories It’s still easy to hate on Saucebox’s sleek aesthetic—that melting-ice-cube logo, the dark-roomed club-beats-meet-fusion-food ambience. But really, aside from its woot-woot Chachi/Trixie weekend crowd, Bruce Carey’s Saucebox has slid from aggro-urban-pseudohip to real Portlan   More