Cover Story The tree wasn’t all that special. It was just too damn big. Back in 2004, Nat West’s friend and neighbor in North Portland, Norris Thomlinson, had a large and craggy tree in his backyard t ... More

News Stories Customers at Nectar Cannabis use several methods to choose the weed that’s right for them.  Some trust the budtenders at the medical marijuana dispensary on Northeast Sandy Boulevard to ... More

Food Reviews & Stories In the heartland, where the towns that survive are built along the great and open freeway, no gas station is just a gas station. It’s the town square, the place everybody goes, home to fresh ... More

Drank Cider of the Year 7 Deadly Sins: Envy Reverend Nat’s/Barley Brown’s Unlike some cider makers, Nat West loves beer. Really loves beer. When he’s not downing ales after a cider festival—a ... More

Drank Virtue Sidra de Nava When he sold Goose Island brewing to Anheuser-Busch, Greg Hall knew he’d have to stay out of beer for a while. He had a great fallback: traditional Old World ciders made ... More

Beer Guide Craft lager had a long, slow fermentation in Oregon. ENGELBERG PILSNERIMAGE: Matt WongJust a few years ago, it was rare to see a small-batch local beer descended from crisp Bohemians in the se ... More

Beer Guide 2. Peach Slap (Batch No. 1) Deschutes Brewery Portland Public House Some great beers are meticulously planned, and others are happy discoveries. Some are flat-out unicorns, creatures that appe ... More

Beer Guide In a state with such a vital craft beer culture, Willamette Week found it strange that there was no award ceremony to celebrate the best of the industry. So, this year, with the help of Ben Edmu ... More

Beer Guide Hopworks Urban Brewery and Bike Bar 2944 SE Powell Blvd., 232-4677; 3947 N Williams Ave., 287-6258. HUB’s bright, contrasting color scheme might have been designed with kids in mind. Not only ... More

Beer Guide Feb. 25-March 2 Tart Fruit Fest Cascade Brewing’s limited releases poured at the barrelhouse. cascadebrewingbarrelhouse.com. Feb. 28 Malt Ball Bands and brews. themaltball.com. March 6-7 ... More

Beer Guide The Big Legrowlski 812 NW Couch St., 206-6481, biglegrowlski.com. Way out in the Pearl there was this minimalist 15-tap bar…bar I wanna tell ya about, bar by the name of Legrowlski. That’s ... More

Beer Guide Deschutes 901 SW Simpson Ave., Bend, 541-385-8606, deschutesbrewery.com As in life, so in Bend, the best things are free. Any day of the week, you can show up at Deschutes’s sprawling factor ... More

Beer Guide Buoy 1 8th St., Astoria, 325-4540, buoybeer.com. Situated on the planks of the Riverwalk overhanging the Columbia, year-old Buoy has already established itself as a treasure of the Oregon Coas ... More

Beer Guide Ballast Point Sculpin (pictured above)Bear Republic Racer 5Sierra Nevada TorpedoAnchor Liberty AleRussian River Blind Pig ... More

Beer Guide Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen (pictured above)Schneider WeisseOccidental HefeweizenSt. Bernardus WitbierAyinger Ur-Weisse ... More

Murmurs An independent analysis of Airbnb’s Portland hosts reveals only 93 of 2,006 online rentals in the city show they have a city permit to operate legally. That’s just 4.6 percent. The city of Por ... More

Headout Until the 2013 NBA Finals, I’d never seen anyone I know cry over sports. And then came Game 7 of the series between the San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat. After Tim Duncan uncharacteristi ... More

Music Stories When Calgary-based noise-pop band Women split up in 2012, it wasn’t without controversy. Led by brothers Matt and Patrick Flegel, the band had carved out a niche as one of the most innovative ... More

Album Reviews [EPIC POP] Whereas debut albums often begin with a bang, sophomore records tend to start with a statement. Lost Lander hit the ground running in 2012 with its excellent first album, DRRT, pair ... More

Music Stories [ELECTRONIC SOUL] Much has been made about Dan Snaith’s inability to stay still. The Canadian musician, who records under the name Caribou, has never made the same record twice, constantly e ... More

Scoop NOTHING UNDER THE KILT: Sherwood’s Two Kilts Brewing Company caused a stir earlier this month when it decided against expanding into a 11,000-square-foot facility in Hillsboro. Signs on the do ... More

Movie Reviews & Stories The Washington, D.C., punk scene documented in Scott Crawford’s Salad Days was a hydra of privileged brattiness, tough-guy posturing, earnest disaffection and lofty purpose. It was, as youth m ... More

Movie Reviews & Stories David Cronenberg has always been fixated on bodies. He fused them to television screens in Videodrome, crafted the finest head-explosion scenes of all time in Scanners, and charted every gruesome st ... More

Theater A song-studded romp detailing one adorable girl’s murder of another for the lead role in a school play, Ruthless! The Musical explores the sinister glint behind every child star’s manufactured ... More

Theater “Sad and poor Irish people sitting in a room” is practically a theatrical genre unto itself these days. The Night Alive, a play by famed Irish playwright Conor McPherson, hardly reinvents it. ... More

Willie Weed Sunday brunch with endless mimosas and from-the-can hollandaise is basic. Local coffee laced with locally grown, trimmed and prepared weed is not. Caffeine and THC are a wonderful pair. But ... More

Food Reviews & Stories A list of the five spots we're excited about right now—maybe taquerias we've loved forever, maybe seafood spots with special menus this week. It's designed to answer that age-old question: Where should we go out to dinner tonight?
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