Movie Reviews & Stories Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables lives up to its name. With the exception of about 10 minutes, the nearly three-hour film is an endless wallow in the fields of squalor, filth, chancre and herpes. More
Les Misérables
More of a nightmare than a dream.
Movie Reviews & Stories Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables lives up to its name. With the exception of about 10 minutes, the nearly three-hour film is an endless wallow in the fields of squalor, filth, chancre and herpes. More
No More Year 2012
This year in gratuitous party themes.
Featured Stories New Year’s Eve events are always a little bit falsely inflated; they’re the party equivalent of a real-estate bubble that bursts at about the same time as your liver. The bar parties usually More
24th and Meatballs
Food Reviews & Stories With all the attention paid to Kevin Cavenaugh’s micro restaurant pod, the Ocean, at Northeast 24th Avenue and Glisan Street, it would be easy to assume the concept is more important than what's More
Cathedral Park Kitchen: Ginned-Up Cafe
Bar Reviews In a no-frills space designed as a lunchroom for office workers at the old Columbia Sportswear factory in St. Johns, an odd surprise: some of the best cocktails in Portland. Cathedral Park Kitchen More
Karen Brooks’ Brutal Youth
The Mighty Gastropolis author wasn’t always such a Portland cheerleader.
Books Karen Brooks’ new Portland-dining book, The Mighty Gastropolis (Chronicle, 256 pages, $24.95), is a torrid love affair with Portland More
Drank: Maui Mango Passion (Lanilai)
Drank This Portland-made “relaxation drink,” if one takes the innuendo on Lanilai’s website at face value, will help you live longer, reduce joint pain, sleep better, attain the heights of menta More
2012 Holiday Gift Guide, Vol. 2
Nice Things for Naughty People
Featured Stories In our first Holiday Gift Guide, we directed you to some downright pleasant local stores, where you might putter around aimlessly and endlessly to find gifts for the various people in your life� More
Zadie Smith, NW
Taking the Northwest London passage.
Books With each new novel, acclaimed British author Zadie Smith seems as if she’s reacting violently against the one before it. After the exuberant prose and plot of her sprawling, Rushdian debut, W More
Rainbow Connection
Where to get hitched for Vancouver’s first same-sex unions.
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Featured Stories The Clark County Recording and Marriage License Department is preparing for a flood. On Dec. 6, gay and lesbian couples can file for marriage licenses in Washington for the first time. Rec More
High-5 North to Vansterdam
A primer for potential pot tourists.
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Featured Stories Vancouver is rarely touted for its progressive politics, but Portland’s sister city to the north now may now have one solid, um, high point. With passage of ballot initiative I-502, Washingt More
Top Articles from MATTHEW KORFHAGE
I’ll Have What She’s Having
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. Restaurant Guide 2012: Off the Hook
The secrets of good sushi. Jonathan Bloom American Wasteland
Fine foodstuff is a terrible thing to waste. Paul Collins Murder of the Century
Dying to be famous. A Fine Show
Tony Demes is back with Noisette. Portland's Goose Hollow Tracy J. Prince with Bud Clark
Drink 2012: High Culture, Low Places
Driving After the Influence
If Washington legalizes dope, driving there could become risky for tokers.
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. Restaurant Guide 2012: Off the Hook
The secrets of good sushi. Jonathan Bloom American Wasteland
Fine foodstuff is a terrible thing to waste. Paul Collins Murder of the Century
Dying to be famous. A Fine Show
Tony Demes is back with Noisette. Portland's Goose Hollow Tracy J. Prince with Bud Clark
Drink 2012: High Culture, Low Places
Driving After the Influence
If Washington legalizes dope, driving there could become risky for tokers.
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