Sam Lipsyte, The Fun Parts

Books Sam Lipsyte chortlingly revels in the warty and the ruined of America, the wounded strivers who live in the world of spit, shit and piss. He’s also an unrepentant self-amuser prone to the lite   More

 

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Masa? No Mas.

Food Reviews & Stories At Uno Mas, the new taco shop from Oswaldo Bibiano (Autentica, Mextiza), the al pastor pork is carved off a spinning spit and paired with a shard of pineapple in a taco’s 3-inch corn masa enve   More

 

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Future Drinking: Hopworks to Make Cider? Plus, Local Mezcal by Meteca.

Food & Drink Our sorta-weekly recap of gossip    More

 

Friday, March 1, 2013 by MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Timbers 3.0

Can a new coach with an aggressive scoring strategy give Portland a team that can win?

Sports Portland Timbers striker Ryan Johnson’s second of three goals against the San Jose Earthquakes on Feb. 17 probably won’t show up on any highlight reels. But the buildup to Johnson’s scor   More

 

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Cheap Eats 2013: Teatime for Tightwads

Cheap Eats 2013 Tea, like any comfort essential to being human, should always be offered freely. But hospitality at a restaurant rarely comes without cost, and in Portland it is mostly just Chinese and Vietnamese    More

 

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Bar Dobre

Food Reviews & Stories I fear saying good things about a still-obscure Polish spot like Bar Dobre. The last time WW brought attention to one (Grandpa’s Cafe), it made itself membership-only. Well, fingers crossed: The   More

 

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Angélica Gorodischer, Trafalgar

Oregonians cry for you, Argentina.

Books Literature is the natural home of the impossible. But far too often the impossible is spurned in favor of the prosaic, as if truth dressed itself only in flannel. Argentine fiction, from Borge   More

 

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Simply Fed

Goat’s the go-to dish at a new Vietnamese spot on 82nd Avenue.

Food Reviews & Stories Simply Vietnamese is anything but. Or, at least, it’s not one of the myriad bun or pho or banh mi shops that Portlanders have grown accustomed to. The menu is one of the most distinctive among   More

 

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Brew Views: Wild at Heart

Burn, baby, burn.

Brew Views “This whole world’s wild at heart and weird on top,” says Laura Dern’s wayward Southern belle Lula, chest heaving as jailbird lover Sailor (Nicolas Cage in his Elvis phase) runs off to r   More

 

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Dandy W-I-N-S, O-K?

Dandy Warhols keyboardist Zia McCabe beat mayor Charlie Hales, and eight others, in a spelling bee.

Arts & Books Portland Mayor Charlie Hales was the last man standing in a local celebrity spelling bee on Jan. 31 at the Portland Art Museum, held as a benefit for Schoolhouse Supplies, which provides free classroom supplies to local teachers.Trouble is, there were also    More

 

Saturday, February 2, 2013 by MATTHEW KORFHAGE