Scoop: I Like You, But You're Crazy.

1. NOTHING UNDER THE KILT: Sherwood’s Two Kilts Brewing Company caused a stir earlier this month when it decided against expanding into a 11,000-square-foot facility in Hillsboro. Signs on the downtown Hillsboro building that read “Two Kilts: Coming January 2015” had been conspicuously missing for a few weeks. In a Valentine’s Day Facebook post, the brewery wrote: “Hillsboro is not going to happen. Sorry! Staying in the ’Wood!” The brewery later stated plans were halted due to repair and financing issues with the building, and apologized for the Facebook post. “I think you underestimate the stir you caused in Hillsboro,” posted one local quoted in the Hillsboro Tribune. “There were a great many people excited about the prospect of a brewpub downtown.… I do think your fan base here deserves more than a one-line end to the story.” For a look inside the ’Wood location of Two Kilts, pick up a copy of WW’s 2015 Beer Guide, out today and available inside copies in the central city and at better Portland beer bars and bottle shops.

1. MOS BRAINS: Music festival season is upon us. Though the Portland area’s most anticipated multiday concerts—MusicfestNW and Project Pabst—have yet to announce their lineups, a few secondary fests have rolled out their first waves of acts. Soul’d Out isn’t a proper music festival per se, more like a series of shows falling under the loose banner of soul. But this year’s installment, taking place April 14-20, includes one of the most unique bills you’re likely to see anywhere in town: singer-rapper Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), fronting D.C. hardcore legends Bad Brains for the first time anywhere. Other scheduled performers include Charles Bradley, hip-hop jazzers BadBadNotGood, blues legend CeDell Davis and second-generation African guitar master Vieux Farka Touré. The increasingly popular EDM gathering What the Festival, meanwhile, returns to the woods near the gorge June 19-22, topped by Big Gigantic, Odesza and Griz. 

1. SHACKING UP: Cacklack’s Hot Chicken Shack has applied for a beer license to serve its hot fried chicken in a brick-and-mortar eatery next to the Petco store in Bethany Heights. >> Northeast bike shop Cyclepath plans to install a pair of beer taps—one of which will be eternally dedicated to bike team sponsor Ex Novo. According to Mitch Lomacz at the shop, it’ll have eight barstools and a TV showing bike races for riders looking to relax before or after a ride starting at the shop.

1. SCREEN TIME: In case you missed it while reading the masthead on page 3, WW has a new staffer. Enid Spitz is our new stage and screen editor. The former arts and culture intern’s byline has previously appeared in these pages on stories about jugging, pay phones, bagels, wine and, especially, yoga. (Previous stage and screen editor Rebecca Jacobson is “moving to Germany.”)

1. FASTER FOOD: There are still a few spots left for teams at this Sunday’s Cartathlon V, the Super Bowl of area food-themed races. Registration is $60 and gets your team of five one food item each, a two-hour TriMet pass and an excuse to dress up and run around town like a crazy person. More info at wweek.com/cartathlonv.

WWeek 2015