Food Reviews & Stories This time of year, Portland's restaurants are just starting to slough their winter layers--the dreary demiglaces, root-vegetable purées, plates of thick-cut pork and sauce-smothered steak. But ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories In a town filled with dozens of decent Thai restaurants, E-San Thai on Southwest 2nd Avenue continues to draw a loyal crowd of downtown eaters. The restaurant's take on Thai isn't the most inventive o ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Before Don Ho, before Hawaii Five-0, before dashboard hula dancers, the idea of Hawaii held a particular romance for mainlanders. In Hawaii's golden era--say, late '30s to early '50s--the mere whisper ...   More

Fashion It was a bumper year for style in Portland. Despite a sad-sack economy, a summer that burned hot and fast, and the ever-increasing boringness of mainstream retail, our local Look scene has never looke ...   More

Fashion When a glass votive candle exploded midway through Jess Beebe's Linea fashion show at Holocene on Sunday night, it could have been choreographed. The burst of tinkling glass and extinguished light did ...   More

Fashion Paul Forrest has always been ahead of the curve. Case in point. In 1993, before the busiest stretch of Southeast Belmont Street became home to vegan cafes and chic boutiques, his oddly named furniture ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories "Some people are addicted to it!" says Tibet Kitchen owner Jigme Topgyal, referring to an order of lephing, a mung-bean cake flavored with soy vinegar, garlic, powdered chili and chives. "Cake" doesn' ...   More

Fashion It's that time of year when the Look mailbox fills to bursting with perky pink postcards, each one advertising a holiday bazaar displaying the goods of local artists and designers.And really, why not ...   More

Fashion Hurry, you only have a few more days to check out the Pacific Northwest College of Art's A Roadshow of Dutch Design. This collection of more than 250 works of poster art, as well as a few oddities ...   More

Fashion In the middle of "Night of the Living Dolls," a fashion show staged at Nocturnal last week, the lights went out.Models froze onstage. And my heart sank. After all, this was the first event this st ...   More