Books Aimee Bender’s new novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Doubleday, 304 pages, $25.95), is based on a neat little conceit: that little Rose Edelstein, aged almost 9 years, can taste the h ...   More

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For about the umptieth time over the past 12 years, 30 or 40 protesters from the Portland Animal Defense League gathered Monday, June 28, outside the Oregon National Primate Research...   More

Food Cart Reviews New cart pods, in Portland, spring eternal; Slow and Low’s silver bullet is located in the merely weeks-old lot just behind North Mississippi Avenue’s Albina Press, where a few other trail ...   More

Books There is perhaps nothing more viscerally American than blue-collar sport: small-town pride writ large, desire, hope, brief denials of reality and death. This is of course the defining theme of TV&rsqu ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Reo Varnado, co-owner of Reo’s Ribs, does not wear his associations lightly; one of the first things you’ll see upon entering the place is a larger-than-life, 10-foot-tall photograph of hi ...   More

Books On the very first page of his new book, When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison (Public Affairs, 195 pages, $22.95), rock critic Greil Marcus (Mystery Train, Lipstick Traces) compar ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Nick’s may not be the same windowless beerhole it used to be—the ceiling’s raised, the lights bright, the bartender friendlier than family—but the chili recipe hasn’t been fiddled with since 1935. So whether you’re slopping through an ample Single Coney ($6.75) or   More

Food Reviews & Stories Three words: beer-battered burger. It’s vegetarian, sure, but the decadence of the deep-fried Wilky’s Comet ($8) still stuns. Sagittarius is part of the venerable Portland tradition of hippie comfort food, but meat lovers needn’t worry, as forcefully attested by the beefy Astro Bur   More

Food Reviews & Stories Down at the Coconut, it’s a family affair. Some swear by the breakfast frittatas ($3.50), some go for the south-of-the-border-style whipped coffee confections, but really it’s all about the stellar empanadas—in both breakfast and lunch editions—prepared lovingly by Jackie, th   More

Food Reviews & Stories Bun Bo Hue denotes not only the restaurant but its specialty: Vietnamese vermicelli noodle soup ($6.50-$8.25, with different meat sides). The place itself is a tiny room of blinding white tile, folding-chaired tables, East Asian domestic kitsch and owners whose English is nothing if not apologetic.    More