Portland’s Best Old Flames
Rachelle Menashe makes devotional candles for PDX punk royalty.
Portland’s Best Small World
Nanographs operates electron microscopes in OMSI godfather Shab Levy’s old workshop.
Portland’s Best Spit Takes
Dr. Brady Smith, a dentist, is also a comic with a YouTube series called ‘Laughing My Gas Off.’
The Founder of a Portland Startup Wants to Help You Toilet Train Your Cat
The Cat Throne allows your cat to use the same loo you do.
Foster Pattymelt, Grill! Grill!
Sammy’s Burgers and Shakes tastes like munchies from a Foster stoner’s basement.
A Requiem for Jiggles, the Booze-Free Strip Club That Local Teens Turned Into an Icon
Instead of closing, it morphed into an 18-and-over juice bar with topless dancers. It also became a rite of passage for local teens. “Having no other point of reference,” says local DJ Greg Nibler, “it was the greatest place on earth.”
Experience Theatre Project’s Macbeth-Radiohead Merger Mostly Works
The Aloha theater company’s latest production is genuinely, vividly and compellingly personal.
The Pander Brothers’ Portland-Shot Debut Feature Is Finally Out of Development Hell
Viewers waited nearly two decades since “Altered Ego” premiered for it to reach streaming.
“Beth + Jeremy and Steve” Treats Touchy Material With the Respect to Make It Work
Daniel Hill’s romcom character study is blessed with wonderful performances at its center.










