Bar Guide 2014

Pickle chasers, drunken cornhole, wine pubs of the future and everything else you need to know about Portland bars this year.

Bar Guide Our livers hurt, but our hearts are full. To make this guide to Portland bars, we have traveled the wine lounges and beer pubs of Portland, the cocktail halls and juke joints and paint-thinner ... More

Apr 9, 2014 12:01 am by WW Staff

The Starship Enterprise Zones

Banfield Pet Hospital pocketed a subsidy and got favorable treatment from local governments—then bolted to Vancouver.

News Stories Most people know Banfield Pet Hospital from its convenient locations in hundreds of PetSmart stores across the United States. The Banfield chain started in Portland, and nine years ago the company ... More

Apr 9, 2014 12:01 am by NIGEL JAQUISS

Bar Guide 2014: Bar of the Year Runners-Up

Bar Guide 2. Expatriate 5424 NE 30th Ave., expatriatepdx.com. 5 pm-midnight daily. Recently it’s become vogue for Portland’s trendier drinking establishments to offer a selection of fine old books to ... More

Apr 9, 2014 12:01 am by WW Staff

Hotseat: Steven Wax

Oregon’s outgoing federal public defender talks about government secrecy, low-profile wins and his next job.

Hot Seat Oregon has known only one chief federal public defender, the person who stands up in court for people who can’t afford an attorney. Steven Wax, who opened the state’s Federal Public Defender ... More

Apr 9, 2014 12:01 am by KATE WILLSON

Buy Local: The Pace of Portland

A collection of local running gear.

Culture Features Skora Fit men’s and women’s shoes $94.95, skorarunning.com At first look, something seems off. On second look, it becomes clear that Wilsonville-based Skora’s newest line of running shoes ... More

Apr 9, 2014 12:01 am by KATHRYN PEIFER

Of Ice and Fire

Little Dragon goes home again.

Music Stories Little Dragon took the long road back to Gothenburg. Seven years ago, the electronic soul quartet left its hometown, the second-biggest city in Sweden, and didn’t take an extended break ... More

Apr 9, 2014 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

Show Preview: Schoolboy Q, Isaiah Rashad & Vince Staples

Music Stories [LOS AWESOME] It’s not a big stretch that Los Angeles rapper Schoolboy Q decided to title his major-label debut Oxymoron. Schoolboy, who rolls as part of the ... More

Apr 9, 2014 12:01 am by MICHAEL MANNHEIMER

Album Review: Shook Twins

What We Do (Curlypinky)

Album Reviews [INDIE FOLK] Shook Twins’ latest release, What We Do, doesn’t capture the hazy pleasantness between wakefulness and sleep so much as the emotional instability of the dream. It rises and falls ... More

Apr 9, 2014 12:01 am by KAITIE TODD

The Bard of Lithia

A trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival revitalizes an exhausted theater critic.

Performance “Uh-oh! We have a critic!” It’s Friday afternoon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and I have just been outed. Sitting in the sixth row of the Angus Bowmer Theatre, I feel 600 sets of ... More

Apr 9, 2014 12:01 am by REBECCA JACOBSON

Steak Frites PDX

Food Cart Reviews Captured by Porches does not make Belgian beer. That wasn’t a problem until Steak Frites PDX moved in across from the little green bus in the pod behind Crema coffee shop at Southeast 28th Avenu ... More

Apr 9, 2014 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR

Hotseat: Julia Cooke, The Other Side of Paradise

Books Cuba is the great unknown in America’s backyard, embargoed from both trade and direct travel. But during visits between 2008 and 2013, Portland-raised writer Julia Cooke talked to Havana’s p ... More

Apr 9, 2014 12:01 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Headout Picks 4/9/14

Headout Picks WEDNESDAY APRIL 9 FACTORY FLOOR [MUSIC] Cutting the harshness of industrial with a spatiality borrowed from minimalist techno, the music of this London three-piece isn’t cranked out so much as ... More

Apr 9, 2014 12:01 am by WW Culture Staff

Sidekicks

Holding out for a hero.

Performance Like the Justice League meets The Office, Sidekicks imagines the everyday drudgery of being a superhero—and the particular travails of playing second fiddle to the big shots. Set in a land calle ... More

Apr 9, 2014 12:01 am by REBECCA JACOBSON

Murmurs: Doubling Down On Lents; Keeping The CRC Alive.

Murmurs The city of Portland has spent $96 million since 1998 trying—and failing—to rebuild the East Portland neighborhood of Lents, as WW reported earlier this year (“Razed & Confused,” WW, Jan. ... More

Apr 9, 2014 12:01 am by WW Editorial Staff

AP Film Studies: The Zombie Emocalypse

Dead Alive offers a blood-soaked cure to the undead blues.

Movie Reviews & Stories Author’s Note: For the past three weeks, I have embarked on a vision quest that had nothing to do with the film Vision Quest. After eating the blue cactus, I was led by a well-coiffed puppy into a ... More

Apr 9, 2014 12:01 am by AP KRYZA

Dr. Know: Signs Point to a Correction.

Good answer in last week’s column, but wrong sign.

Dr. Know Good answer in last week’s column, but wrong sign. Your reader was not talking about the Uncle Sam sign in Chehalis, but the religious billboard that’s stood near Kalama for years. —Liberty ... More

Apr 9, 2014 12:01 am by MARTY SMITH

Bar Guide 2014: Westside Bars

Bar Guide (NEW!) Abbey Bar 716 NW 21st Ave., 222-1593, theabbeybar.com. 11 am-10 pm Monday-Friday, 9 am-10 pm Saturday-Sunday. Strange but true: With the hybrid, qualified exception of Caps & Corks, inn ... More

Apr 9, 2014 12:01 am by WW Staff

Bar Guide 2014: Live Music, Cold Beer

Bars that are almost, but not quite, music venues

Bar Guide The Blue Monk 3341 SE Belmont St., 595-0575, thebluemonk.com. 5 pm-2:30 am daily. There’s something undeniably retro about grabbing a drink at the Blue Monk. Maybe it’s the green vinyl booths ... More

Apr 9, 2014 12:01 am by WW Staff

Part 3: "I couldn't feel my ass"

Banfield Pet Hospital pocketed a subsidy and got favorable treatment from local governments—then bolted to Vancouver.

Pickle chasers, drunken cornhole, wine pubs of the future and everything else you need to know about Portland bars this year.

A Portland choir group’s financial records are missing, and its ex-boss isn’t talking.

Hey, More Reasons to Love Portland! Nice issue, guys!

Hey, More Reasons to Love Portland! Nice issue, guys!

"Portland 2 rowdy," the rapper Tweets.

Top selling albums and songs in Portland, March 31-April 6

Now with new, improved, shorter lines at the carts!

The brewer will open a brewpub at 1411 NW Flanders, in the Mellow Mushroom Pizza Space

Troubled South Waterfront fine dining spot lasted almost 14 months

Plus, more bikes and brews

Pickle chasers, drunken cornhole, wine pubs of the future and everything else you need to know about Portland bars this year.

Banfield Pet Hospital pocketed a subsidy and got favorable treatment from local governments—then bolted to Vancouver.

A Portland choir group’s financial records are missing, and its ex-boss isn’t talking.

Pub trivia in honor of our 2014 Bar Guide.

Oregon’s outgoing federal public defender talks about government secrecy, low-profile wins and his next job.

A community group calls on PPS to end disciplinary practices that keep kids out of school.

A collection of local running gear.

Little Dragon goes home again.

Dark Horse’s Trekker was ahead of its time. Now it comes back to finish what it started.

Virtuosic electro-jazz for the indie rock generation.

What We Do (Curlypinky)

Clay Pigeons (Sandpeople Music)

A trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival revitalizes an exhausted theater critic.

Holding out for a hero.

Another master class in Indonesian martial arts.

ScarJo spins a web for lonely Glaswegians.

Dead Alive offers a blood-soaked cure to the undead blues.

Good answer in last week’s column, but wrong sign.

Bars that are almost, but not quite, music venues