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Chef Don Salamone Makes One of Portland’s Best Burgers. But It Took a Pandemic for Him to Start Cooking the Food Closest to His Heart.

When the pandemic hit, Salamone saw an opportunity to finally get back in touch with his roots. While the cart downtown stays focused on burgers, Salamone and his wife, Katie, converted their Dig A Pony kitchen into Stevens Italiano, preparing traditional, rotating Italian meals twice a week, in portions big enough to guarantee leftovers. Each order contains an entree, side, salad and garlic bread, plus dessert—all for around $25.

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This popular corner bar gets nearly uncomfortably packed most weekends.

The Top Five Places to Eat on the Fourth of July (If You’re Too Lazy to Barbecue)

Hot Plates, coming through!

You Can Dance to Just About Anything You Want to in Portland

From rare cumbia to pantsless synth-pop.

Can the Chilled-Out Hey Love Succeed in East Portland’s New Party District?

For now, Hey Love is an impressive culmination of disparate talents at the peaks of their respective games. Whether it buckles under the pressure of being a highly Instagrammable venue for strong drinks in a neighborhood that’s slowly turning into Old Town East is yet to be seen. But we’re rooting for it regardless.

DJ Collective Noche Libre Uses the Songs of Their Childhood to Build a Forward-Thinking Community

“It’s kinda like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it out and seeing if my people would come,” says Mendoza, who DJs under the name Lucha and is best known as the frontwoman of Y La Bamba. “And then they find it and are like, ‘Oh my God, that song!’”

After Her Breakout Album, Natasha Kmeto Wants to Expand Even Further Beyond Niche Electronica

It’s somewhat surprising Kmeto is moving away from auteurism. But when she first moved from Los Angeles to Portland, Kmeto wasn’t planning to become a solo artist at all. “I liked being in bands, and thought I was going to gear myself toward singing backup, or doing studio or songwriting work,” she says. “I hadn’t launched anything solo, and never really saw myself doing my own thing. I was scared to.”

Needle Exchange: A DJ Questionnaire with J-Prez

His go-to records, his craziest gig and the music you should never ask him to play.

Needle Exchange: A DJ Questionnaire with DJ ATM

His go-to records, his craziest gig and the music you should never ask him to play.

Dig a Pony is Portland's Late-Night Clearing House

The founders of Portland’s signature meat-market bar just happened to open the perfect place, in the perfect location off the Morrison Bridge, at the precise moment roving frat-packed suburbia decided that the lower east side was sanitized enough to explore.

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