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Do You Find Dogs, Cats and Chickens Too Mainstream? Let’s Find the Alt-Pet That’s Right For You.

“I’m looking for an excitable misfit that could help me pull a heist.”

The Original Formula For Fire Brew’s Health Tonics Came From the Godmother of Herbalism

Valerie Roth takes a shot every day, and thinks you should, too.

Umi Organic Is Making Restaurant-Quality Instant Ramen

It’s like a glo’d-up Cup o’ Noodles.

Eliot’s Adult Nut Butters Are Savory Spreads That the Company’s Founder Says You Should Cook With

You could very well slap Eliot’s Adult Nut Butters on a piece of bread with jelly for a more sophisticated PB&J—or just take a spoon straight to the jar. But what you should really do, says founder Michael Kanter, is make dinner with it.

This Portland Couple Makes Bitters That Satisfy Both Cocktail Geeks and Amateur Mixologists

Often, “a splash of bitters” is the step you skip when fixing yourself a drink at home. With the Bitter Housewife, Genevieve Brazelton set out to make an easy-to-use, balanced bitter that wouldn’t intimidate amateur mixologists while also satisfying the dedicated cocktail geek.

Forget Hipster Santa—This Christmas, Portlanders Can Get Their Photo Taken with Krampus

Portland’s been a little angrier this year, so the time feels right to celebrate Christmas by taking photos with Europe’s favorite seasonal goat-demon.

Shain Brenden Left L.A. for Portland’s Comedy Scene and Excels as a Jack-of-all-Trades

Brenden is number four in WW’s Funniest Five contest.

New Brunch Spot HunnyMilk Will Make You Happy When Portland Skies Are Gray

Serving warm comfort food with a picture-perfect backdrop—imagine Grandma’s biscuits and gravy, but more aesthetically pleasing—all HunnyMilk does is brunch, but it does it damn well.

Heeeeeeeeere’s Oregon’s Favorite Horror Movie Villain, According to a Study

Just in time for Halloween, Frontier Communications conducted a study to find the favorite horror-movie villain for each state in the nation via Google search volume. Among the country’s most feared—or searched, at least—included Norman Bates, Chucky, Frankenstein’s Monster and the alien from Alien.

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