Food Reviews & Stories Observe the contortions of your favorite vegan’s face next time they’re enthusing over a new animal-friendly restaurant. You will witness a glorious emotional duel between heartbreak—“why can’t all restaurants be like that!?”—and desire—“I want t   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Stick with therapy long enough and the rush of emotional purging will grade into salutary exhaustion—finally tired of your own miserable company, you’ll be ready to become a better friend ...   More

Books Having completed his vivisection of ’80s apathy and excess with the peerless American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis took his gleaming scalpel to literary genres, transforming conspiracy-thriller pul ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Jean-Luc Godard, that champion of auteur theory, opened his cataclysmic 1967 Weekend by slyly abdicating authorship: “A film adrift in the cosmos,” read the first title card; “a film ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Laura Poitras intended to make a film about Guantanamo Bay. She had a tidy narrative in mind: Innocent man is detained, innocent man is released, innocent man returns home. It is not difficult to imag ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Barely bigger than a band’s practice space, and just as piercingly loud, Secret Society expertly balances chaos and romance. In fact, it makes a convincing argument that the two are synonymous. It’s a candlelit cacophony in here—the stranger at the table next to you would need a hi   More

Food Reviews & Stories With illuminated PBR signs posing as art, a bottle-cap mosaic tabletop and a misguided allegiance to the goddamn Green Bay Packers, Saraveza is like the coolest Midwestern dorm room ever. The only problem is that Portland lacks a soul-crushing winter freeze to justify the heft Saraveza will donate t   More

Food Reviews & Stories This is what drinking in Boston must be like: a Catholic church across the street promising future forgiveness for tipsy transgressions, and a nearby daycare center cautioning against making a huge tiny mistake. Nepo 42 itself is catholic in the secular sense, with a take-all-comers hodgepodge of cr   More

Food Reviews & Stories You ever have a friend who pulled off every cool “lifestyle choice” with infuriating ease, making you feel dumb and ugly in the process? No? Well, the Bye and Bye will be that friend—easy to resent, impossible to resist. Give in already. The tattooed boys behind the bar are cute, t   More

Food Reviews & Stories It’s no wonder local author Patrick deWitt (Ablutions) came here to work on his next novel, a Western about frequently blotto brothers shooting their way to gold-crazy California. The clientele ain’t exactly the spur-clanking kind, but the mounted horns decorating the walls of this conve   More