Food Reviews & Stories Oh, how strange it is to order your waffle outside, then hike around the corner and into Bread and Ink Cafe to wait for your food. But you do, and you like it. The $4 Three-B’s (basil, bacon, Brie) Belgian square is a meal unto itself, as are all of the provincial-style sweet-savories; it&rsqu   More

Food Reviews & Stories When it comes to pho ($7 large, $7.50 huge), cavernous Pho Oregon has the deepest and best menu in town, with a near-goofy selection of beef assortments to steep in the broth: briskets lean and fatty, steaks flank and round, meatballs, tendons, tripe, and even pizzle (penis, yo) for the not faint of   More

Arts & Books

It is a rare thing, in Portland, to witness spanking-new work by a renowned composer of contemporary classical music, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's career has been nothing if not storied—works play...   More

Books Mary Gaitskill’s stories have always been a long time coming; about a decade has separated each of Gaitskill’s collections since her now-classic 1988 debut, Bad Behavior. Grace Paley&mdash ...   More

Books Of course, Tokyo Vice (Pantheon, 335 pages, $26) begins with a threat. The dapper Japanese gangster (say it with me: ya-ku-za) ungently insinuates to the American reporter that unless he gives up on h ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Matchbox Lounge, a mod-sleek, red-lit, almost-three-year-old bar space on Southeast Division Street, was probably best known, when it started, as a pleasant drinking annex to the waiting line at pre-W ...   More

News

Lewis Hyde—social anthropologist, poet, scholar, gentle hero—is coming to Portland. Even better (as perhaps befits the author of The Gift), he will be giving lectures...   More

Books Despite the seeming breach between her explorations of the masculine for Esquire and GQ and her two most recent, hypergabby love-lost-and-found memoirs, Elizabeth Gilbert has always written about what ...   More

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I was reminded Monday night upon entering the Armory (the Gerding, I mean), just how pretty the place is. That's a    More

Books A brief intro: Storytelling is, of course, the oldest of arts—it’s the only way most of us understand anything, science included (tectonic plates become players in epic struggles, nova&rsq ...   More