Willamette Week - http://www.wweek.com/portland/articles.sec-760-1-.html Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT+7 en hourly 1 I’ll Have What She’s Having - This 82nd avenue joint is delicately Chinese and discreetly Korean. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17216-i%E2%80%99ll_have_what_she%E2%80%99s_having_this_82nd_avenue_joint_is_delicately_chinese_and_discree.html Chinese Delicacy restaurant, despite the name, is not exactly a Chinese place—at least, not in any simple way. Your first hint should be on the tiny]]> The Tooth of the Matter - A new call to put fluoride in the city’s water raises old fears. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19580-the_tooth_of_the_matter_a_new_call_to_put_fluoride_in_the_city%E2%80%99s_water_raises_old_fears.html After 54 years of opposition, the City of Portland is moving to put fluoride in your drinking water. Upstream Public Health, the group behind the fluoridation move, launched what amounted to a p]]> Mari-Wanna? - Oregon and two other states are huffing and puffing toward legalizing weed. But don’t buy that bong just yet. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19599-mari_wanna_oregon_and_two_other_states_are_huffing_and_puffing_toward_legalizing_weed_but_don%E2%80%.html Harking back to the days when everything that mattered in politics was decided in smoke-filled rooms, the Western states...]]> Jonathan Bloom <i>American Wasteland</i> - Fine foodstuff is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17191-jonathan_bloom_american_wasteland_fine_foodstuff_is_a_terrible_thing_to_waste.html Until relatively recently—within the past 50 years, say—no one had to be told not to waste their food, and certainly not as an ecological or even public issue. It was simple common sense: Who th]]> Paul Collins <i>Murder of the Century</i> - Dying to be famous. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17623-paul_collins_murder_of_the_century_dying_to_be_famous.html It is a common thing, beneath the deafening noise of America’s Lohans and Kardashians, to hear tell that our culture—as a result of reality television, willful illiteracy, celebrity worship, the]]> <i>Portland's Goose Hollow</i> Tracy J. Prince with Bud Clark - http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17360-portlands_goose_hollow_tracy_j_prince_with_bud_clark_.html It is natural to assume that the topography of a city is fundamentally constant—that some half-distant ancestors found a promising patch of earth and proceeded to sow the seeds for what would ripen, as if inevitably, into the place we know well. But cities are things of tumult]]> A Fine Show - Tony Demes is back with Noisette. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18747-a_fine_show_tony_demes_is_back_with_noisette.html Chef Tony Demes’ new French-modern restaurant Noisette is good for both dinner and a show if you do it right. Couvron, his much-missed previous restaurant—which Demes moved from Portland to Ne]]> Restaurant Guide 2012: Off the Hook - The secrets of good sushi. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19811-restaurant_guide_2012_off_the_hook_the_secrets_of_good_sushi.html Discriminating sushi fans assert they would never eat Midwestern sushi, pronouncing it much too far from the dwindling seas of salmon and snapper. Portland diners, presumably, are a mere two-hou]]> Driving After the Influence - If Washington legalizes dope, driving there could become risky for tokers. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19629-driving_after_the_influence_if_washington_legalizes_dope_driving_there%C2%A0could_become_risky_for_t.html Oregon medical marijuana patients might have reason to worry if the state of Washington’s dope legalization initiative passes in November—that is, if they ever plan on driving in Washington. ]]> Drink 2012: High Culture, Low Places - http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19046-drink_2012_high_culture_low_places_.html You don’t have to be a whorehouse Henry Miller or Dylan Thomas souse to know that literature and debauched penury often coincide. Tony’s Tavern and Joe’s Cellar—a pair of the diviest of Port]]> <i>The Campaign</i> - Pressing flesh, punching babies. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19532-the_campaign_pressing_flesh_punching_babies.html Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell have become the paunchy, awkward Wayans brothers of American comedic film, broad-stroked and choked up with cheap gags, sweaty and desperate for the audience’s]]> How The Timbers Lose - The late collapses of last season return, dimming Portland’s hopes for a winning season. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19094-how_the_timbers_lose_the_late_collapses_of_last_season_return_dimming_portland%E2%80%99s_hopes_for_a.html After an optimistic start this season, the news is grim: The Portland Timbers have staked undisputed claim to Major League...]]> Pre-Midnight Express - Secret Kebab will serve you anything (sometimes), so long as it’s kebab. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17370-pre_midnight_express_secret_kebab_will_serve_you_anything_%28sometimes%29_so_long_as_it%E2%80%99s_ke.html Secret Kebab, as the name might suggest, is a kebab-smuggling operation, steered by the unseen hand of a shadowy, mustachioed figure known as Alparslan the Turk, who is also suspected of being a li]]> London Not Calling - Ann Romney’s horse is in the Summer Olympics. Why not these world-class athletes from Oregon? http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19531-london_not_calling_ann_romney%E2%80%99s_horse_is_in_the_summer_olympics_why_not_these_world_class_at.html

Every two years, the Olympic Games noisily emerges as the pinnacle of bewildering human endeavor.  The Games’ most familiar events—skiing and...

]]> Bollywood Theater - Indian street food that's pure Portland http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19279-bollywood_theater_indian_street_food_thats_pure_portland.html Chef Troy MacLarty may have walked the streets of Kolkata to research the food for his new Indian bistro Bollywood Theater, but in feeling his restaurant is pure Portland: upscale street food amid]]> 2012 Holiday Gift Guide, Vol. 2 - Nice Things for Naughty People http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20009-2012_holiday_gift_guide_vol_2_nice_things_for_naughty_people.html In our first Holiday Gift Guide, we directed you to some downright pleasant local stores, where you might putter around aimlessly and endlessly to find gifts for the various people in your life�]]> Tom Rachman <i>The Imperfectionists</i> - <i>The Times'</i> Roman holiday. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16369-tom_rachman_the_imperfectionists_the_times_roman_holiday.html On the cynical face of it, it is unsurprising that Tom Rachman’s debut novel, The Imperfectionists (The Dial, 288 pages, $15), has been a darling among the newspaper and magazine press over this ...]]> High-5 North to Vansterdam - A primer for potential pot tourists. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19985-high_5_north_to_vansterdam_a_primer_for_potential_pot_tourists.html Vancouver is rarely touted for its progressive politics, but Portland’s sister city to the north now may now have one solid, um, high point. With passage of ballot initiative I-502, Washingt]]> Smallpressapalooza, Thursday, March 20 - Micropresses are the new milkshake. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-8723-smallpressapalooza_thursday_march_20_micropresses_are_the_new_milkshake.html Holy Mole - Oregon City's Loncheria Mitzil is a secret worth spilling. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16673-holy_mole_oregon_citys_loncheria_mitzil_is_a_secret_worth_spilling.html <i>Extraterrestrial</i> - Love and other aliens. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19485-extraterrestrial_love_and_other_aliens.html Following up on 2007’s much-venerated, sordid metaphysical puzzle box Timecrimes, director Nacho Vigalondo again cracks the genre box wide open in Extraterrestrial.  Across all of Spain, 4-]]> David Foster Wallace <i>The Pale King</i> - Boredom ain’t boring. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17409-david_foster_wallace_the_pale_king_boredom_ain%E2%80%99t_boring.html Perhaps no American writer of the past 25 years has inspired more devotion, hope and resentment than David Foster Wallace. When his dense-prosed, block-paragraphed doorstopper, Infinite Jest, dropp]]> There’s a Bowl For That - Boke Bowl is a polished, pragmatic take on ramen. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19004-there%E2%80%99s_a_bowl_for_that_boke_bowl_is_a_polished_pragmatic_take_on_ramen.html With its clean lines, design-conscious self-branding and techy iconography, Boke Bowl’s interior looks more than anything like an Apple store.]]> All in the Family - Grandpa's is full of grandmas (who think you look a little skinny). http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17982-all_in_the_family_grandpas_is_full_of_grandmas_%28who_think_you_look_a_little_skinny%29.html Some of my fondest memories from my time in Chicago are of the Spartan, hole-in-the-wall, train-car Polish cafes in the northwest part of the city. These were Polish community gathering places cente]]> Keeping It All Together - A <i>WW</i> reporter visits the organizers expo and decides to be a slob. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16879-keeping_it_all_together_a_ww_reporter_visits_the_organizers_expo_and_decides_to_be_a_slob.html In Todd Haynes’ 1995 film Safe, a housewife played by Julianne Moore finds herself suddenly all too susceptible to the byproducts and complications of modern life; power lines buzz ominously outs]]> Shot In Old Town - A photographer’s ’70s-era portraits of Portland’s lost souls get a new life. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17663-shot_in_old_town_a_photographer%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%9970s_era_portraits_of_portland%E2%80%99s_lost_soul.html Whatever Ellis Island’s pleasant fictions about the poor, meek or hungry, Portland’s Old Town has always welcomed them in earnest. It has been a century-long home to the transient or boozy, whe]]> Matthew Stadler, <i>Chloe Jarren’s La Cucaracha</i> - It ain’t the same old song. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17000-matthew_stadler_chloe_jarren%E2%80%99s_la_cucaracha_it_ain%E2%80%99t_the_same_old_song.html Cover songs are, of course, more than familiar—usually it’s the first step to becoming a musician at all. Chloe Jarren’s La Cucaracha (Publication Studio, 296 pages, $20)]]> Steve Wilson <i>The Boys From Little Mexico</i> - An American tale. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-12053-steve_wilson_the_boys_from_little_mexico_an_american_tale.html Holiday Gift Guide 2012 - http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19956-holiday_gift_guide_2012_.html Ah, well. It’s 2012, and for seemingly the 80th time, the world is ending. If the predictions are true, it’ll all wrap up five days after Hannukah, four before Christmas and well ahead of the ]]> Surfing New Turf - RingSide Fish House pampers with an old-school sense of comfort. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18175-surfing_new_turf_ringside_fish_house_pampers_with_an_old_school_sense_of_comfort.html The RingSide Fish House, perched on the mezzanine of the theater district’s Fox Tower, is the first addition to Portland’s staid RingSide steak empire in three decades.]]>