Best of Portland 2018

Fed Up With Dating Apps, This Portlander Started Her Own Low-Tech Matchmaking Service

By Meira Gebel

Go Girl Ride Wants to Make Women and Nonbinary Passengers Feel More Comfortable When Calling for a Lift.

By Brianna Wheeler

Mutt’s Coffee Puts Images of Rescue Dogs on Its Bags to Support Pet Adoption

By Lauren Yoshiko

At the Coffee Stand Inside Muji, a Robot Barista Will Make You a Latte, Complete with Milk Foam Art.

By Suzette Smith

Portland Still Doesn’t Have Major League Baseball, but It Does Have a New Coffee Shop Owned by a World Series Champion

By Robert Ham

The Rice Bowl Posse, a Coalition of Portland AAPI Chefs, Forms a United Front to Oppose Anti-Asian Hate.

By Lauren Yoshiko

When This Portland Chef Lost His Job, He Took His Culinary Skills on the Road—Literally.

By Sophie Peel

On His DIY YouTube Series, Comedian Jake Silberman Plays Reporter, With Hilarious Results

By Anthony Effinger

This Portland Party Promoter Worked to Keep the Queer Scene Connected During the Pandemic.

By Andrew Jankowski

Portland’s Favorite Graffiti Tag Is Penis Girl.

By Suzette Smith

Arby’s Has the Meats. This Portlander Has the Fast Food Chain’s Old Signs.

By Matthew Singer

Portland’s Fonograf Editions Wants to Prove That Poetry Readings Can Be Raw, Messy and Thrilling.

By Robert Ham

This Local Aerial Photography Firm Captured the Image That Broadcast Portland’s Black Lives Matter Protests to the World

By Jay Horton

Two Portlanders Converted an Old Willamette Week Box Into a Neighborhood Movie Swap

By Matthew Singer

This Portland Instagram Account Is Straight Trash—and That’s the Whole Point.

By Meira Gebel