http://www.wweek.com/portland/articles.sec-1487-1-.html Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT+7 en hourly 1 http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20513-keeping_it_kosher_five_local_rabbis_pick_portland%E2%80%99s_best_bagel.html Five out of five rabbis agree: Portland is still suffering from the closure of Kettleman Bagel Company. Despite the efforts of many who have stepped up to fill the bagel-shaped void, nothing has b]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20473-u_lock_or_you_walk_some_surprising_bike_theft_facts_from_cops_and_bike_shops.html Brian Leber watched an imposing figure roll into Bike Gallery with a road bike that had been sprayed black with truck bed-liner paint. “I knew right away it was our bike,” he says. A $2,00]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20274-pot_meet_kettle_cannabis_is_better_for_smoking_than_eating.html Toasted, rolled, burnt and baked—can one exist solely off cannabis? Hemp advocates trumpet the many great qualities of this “wonder crop,” which has been cultivated since the dawn of civil]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20249-drank_chocolate_orange_wine_%28shallon_winery%29_.html Chocolate orange wine from Astoria’s Shallon Winery is all about love. Octogenarian winemaker Paul van der Veldt opened his doors in 1980 and has single-handedly run the operation since. Van d]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20350-top_five_films_to_see_at_pow_fest_.html Beat Down A runaway teen squeezes into scintillating pink spandex as she follows her wrestling dream. Deanne Foley’s film congenially captures showy wrestling, pubescent awkwardness and familia]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20432-drank_little_saison_%28pfriem_family_brewers%29_.html Pfriem Family Brewers, which opened in Hood River last year, has a lofty goal: capture sunlight in a bottle. Pfriem’s Little Saison, light but not little, almost gets there. Saisons began as t]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20544-chez_dodo_.html You don’t have to know where Mauritius (moh-RISH-us) is to delight in cilantro chutney-embellished vegetarian samosas ($5) at Chez Dodo. Once you pinpoint the tiny island nation in the Indian Oc]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20600-pickin%E2%80%99_apples_a_massive_blind_taste_test_of_portland_area_apple_ciders.html Like the national census or U2’s popularity, a cider boom recurs about once a decade. We’re nearing the crest of a wave right now, according to Wandering Aengus co-owner James Kohn. “The n]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20359-headout_getting_juggy_with_it_grab_an_old_bottle_and_start_blowing.html Orange juice cartons, cherry-cola bottles and a wine jug litter the tables in Arlo Leach’s attic music room. He’s neither a lush nor a hoarder: He’s a jugger. According to Leach, there a]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20488-pride_and_prejudice_and_kitties_i_can_haz_crumpetz.html As if cat memes haven’t vociferously enough taken over the interwebbed world, they’re digging their claws into classic literature. Pride and Prejudice and Kitties (Skyhorse, $16.95, 195 page]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20434-st_nicholas_%28corrib_theatre%29_that%E2%80%99s_some_bloody_good_craic.html Deep into Conor McPherson’s St. Nicholas, our devilish, graying narrator is engulfed by the irresistible spell of otherworldly figures, swept into their London mansion of dark wood paneling an]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20398-sauvage_oenogeek_chic_.html Although the bar is dubbed “savage” in French, nothing at Sauvage (537 SE Ash St., No. 102, 971-258-5829, sauvagepdx.com) falls below perfectly refined—except maybe the taxidermied goose imp]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20573-quarter_stories_turning_portland_pay_phones_into_time_portals.html Portlanders are slow to part with public relics. Rather than phase out the iron hitching rings that line our curbs from the days when people actually rode horses in Portland, the city repairs and ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20435-amy_stewart_the_drunken_botanist_the_birds_and_the_beers.html Amy Stewart’s The Drunken Botanist (Algonquin, 400 pages, $19.95) is a quirky exploration of the plants behind every drink menu. Part field guide for invested gardeners or bartenders, part 1,000]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20410-fire_and_forget_born_on_the_11th_of_september.html Fire-and-forget missiles are launched and then left to their own devices, whizzing toward inevitable destruction. The veteran authors of Fire and Forget: Short Stories From the Long War (Da Capo]]>