B-Side

B-Side is the lack of change it wants to see in the world. Condos may rise, and car lots may fall on the Burnside bridgehead. Rontoms next door may come in and out of fashion. Zombies may attack it in a Red Flag vid. But B-Side? B-Side spans time like Vincent Gallo in a photo booth. Sure, the whiskey-tallboy rocker dive now has a few heat lamps on the smoking porch—which still has the approximate air quality of an emerging nation—and the tabletop graffiti gets cleaned up for a refresh every now and then. But you're still going to "take it in the B-Side" if you buy the bar's panties, you will still tell time with a clock depicting Ted Nugent's face, that vector graphic of Tronicorn behind the bar is still going to fuck your girlfriend, and that same Post-it note on the wall is going to tell you so. The beer is cheap, the regulars are regular, there's always a Sizzle Pie pizza box somewhere in the bar, and if it doesn't feel like somebody made the place just for you, they probably didn't.

Crappy hour: 4-7 pm daily. $1 Hamm's, Rainier and Tecate tallboys.

Entertainment: Three pinball machines, board games, patio.

632 E Burnside St.,503-233-3113. 4 pm-2:30 am daily.

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