Murmurs It’s election season, so you can expect campaigns to be making stuff up. But the Measure 79 campaign is the worst in a long time. The measure would amend the state constitution to ban real-estate    More

Food & Drink Food-writer-about-town Michael Zusman concludes his epicurean excursion through Portland's new food festival, Feast. Read his diary of day one, day two and day three.Sunday, Sept. 2310:30 am: Guess I woke up too late for Feast’s official bike ride and brunch send off event. Very sad about this. Scratched out a bunch of Feast diary material before heading off for more work: an interview with Andy ...   More

Food & Drink Food-writer-about-town Michael Zusman continues his gastronomic journey through Portland's new food festival, Feast. Read his diary of day one here and day two here.Saturday, Sept. 228:30 am: Bleary-eyed and bloated after too many calories and too little sleep, I’m keeping the Feast schedule light today. I know there are a bunch of fascinating seminars such as “Building Your Own Bitters,” “Basic ...   More

Food & Drink Food-writer-about-town Michael Zusman continues his gastronomic journey through Portland new food festival, Feast. Read his diary of day one here.Friday, Sept. 21 6:45 am: Late to bed, early to rise…Portland skies have their autumn-typical ash gray hue and it’s sprinkling. Excellent. No more migration-inducing blue sky, 75 degree, light breeze perfection. Noon: Gotta suppress the nightmares. ...   More

Food & Drink Portland's new food festival Feast debuts this week, running Sept. 20-23. Even if you couldn't scrape together the $650 for a ticket, you can still enjoy the festival vicariously through the diarised literary stylings of food-writer-about-town Michael Zusman (who, standard disclaimer, is no relation to WW editor in chief Mark Zusman, though we'd love to see them together in a buddy comedy), who will ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Portland’s restaurant scene is all grown up, and that means we get a fancy food festival to call our very own. Feast Portland, the brainchild of former WW contributor Mike Thelin and PR consulta   More