News Few with email haven’t had the privilege of a Nigerian “official” requesting their assistance to transfer the sum of $47,500,000.00... More
Hotseat: Jenna Burrell
A Portlander researches African internet scams—by actually going to interview the scammers in Ghana.
News Few with email haven’t had the privilege of a Nigerian “official” requesting their assistance to transfer the sum of $47,500,000.00... More
Gift Guide 2012: The Unaccredited Professor
Featured Stories Your friend belongs to no university but somehow knows everything under the sun and moon, as he is careful to remind you on each and every occasion. When you bought Fifty Shades of Grey last yea More
Holiday Gift Guide 2012
Featured Stories Ah, well. It’s 2012, and for seemingly the 80th time, the world is ending. If the predictions are true, it’ll all wrap up five days after Hannukah, four before Christmas and well ahead of the More
Headout: November of the Penguins
Meet the new penguinarium’s coolest residents.
Headout The penguins have come home to roost at the Oregon Zoo. After two years of shivering next to the polar bear exhibit (“They could definitely hear the bears through the walls,” says birdkeeper M More
Anna Karenina
The new Tolstoy adaptation is a faithful affair.
Movie Reviews & Stories Tom Stoppard and Joe Wright’s new filming of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina might be a love story, but it has nothing to do with seduction. This Anna is all about the aftermath. In many ways, Sto More
Future Drinking: Vacant Lucier Space Resurrecting as Quartet
And other new places to eat and drink in Portland
Food & Drink Some activity at the site of Portland's massive failed experiment in high-end fine-dining, Lucier, which until recently was so well preserved it looked like it had been cleared by neutron bomb. Three of Portland's most prominent African-American entrepreneurs—Frank Taylor of Portland Prime, Bernard Foster of More
Raccoon Redux
Tanuki is a mysterious creature: Eat first, ask questions never.
Food Reviews & Stories Tanuki is a strange little world. Known for its food but appointed as a bar, chef-owner Janis Martin’s Montavilla izakaya is a dim, nearly unmarked space frequented mostly by a small, self-selec More
Headout: Gaijin Style
Learn some basic izakaya etiquette.
Headout The Jupiter Hotel will play host this week to the massive Izakaya pub fest—with representatives of almost every Portland sake “dining bar” and distiller (not Tanuki, see here) serving up m More
Brew Views: Arbitrage
Gere as Icarus.
Brew Views Arbitrage may not be directed by Paul Verhoeven, but feature-film rookie Nicholas Jarecki so thoroughly channels the hollow-man ambitions, smug moral posturing and incongruous driving-synth atmo More
Merritt’s System
As a miserable season ends, the Portland Timbers again gamble on a first-time MLS coach.
News Portland Timbers fans have learned one thing for certain about the team’s owner, Merritt Paulson: He’s not afraid to gamble. He launched the team’s freshman season in Major League Soccer las 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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