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Lompoc Brewing Is Closing Its Original 23rd Avenue Pub

Lompoc Tavern will serve its final customers Sept. 26. Ankeny Tap & Table is set to take over the lease.

Horse Brass Pub’s Former Owner Purchased the Place With a Drunken Deal Written Out on a Napkin

It would eventually become one of the most iconic beer bars in the United States.

Portland’s Lompoc Brewing is Homey, Friendly and Totally Lacking in All Pretension

To understand Lompoc, you have to understand the Lompocolypse. As the original Lompoc location, a moldering yellow house on Northwest 23rd Avenue, was being prepped for demolition, the brewers invited everyone over for one final blowout brewday-slash-keg-draining party.

The Horse Brass is Where Portland Beervana Was Born

The Horse brass lives triumphantly on after 40 years.

An Oral History of The Horse Brass

Portland’s status as a beer mecca can be traced back to a grungy, smoky, dimly lit neighborhood British pub.

Portland Wouldn't Be Beervana Without This 40-Year-Old English Pub Bought on A Cocktail Napkin

The Horse Brass wasn’t just the first place in town to pourEnglish beers—it was the first place to feature Oregon breweries like BridgePort and Deschutes, and helped launch Stumptown Coffee.

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The City of Portland Wants a New Carbon Tax. It Might Kill Bottle Recycling in Oregon to Get One.

Oregon Bottle Redemption Center. (Wesley Lapointe)

If You Want Portland Kids to Stop Breaking Windows, Gregory McKelvey Says You Should Understand Why They’re Doing It

Downtown Portland is covered in plywood, partly because of repeated vandalism by protesters. (Mick Hangland-Skill)

Portland Police Bureau Identifies Man Who Mayor Wheeler Pepper-Sprayed as Alpenrose Dairy Heir

Alpenrose Dairy. (Katie Reahl)

What Are the Medical Conditions That Make It So Impossible to Wear a Mask?

Michael Waters, partner/chef of Carina Lounge on Northwest 21st Avenue, serves a burger to a customer. (Brian Burk)

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A Key Indicator of Real Estate Investors’ Interest in Portland Shows a Precipitous Decline 133

Oregon’s Most Prominent QAnon Proponent and a Timber Unity Spokeswoman Attended the Insurrection at U.S. Capitol 113

Gov. Kate Brown Delays Vaccination of Oregonians Ages 65 and Older 108

Powell’s Will Only Carry Andy Ngo’s Book Online, Not on Shelves, But Protest Continues 94

Kristina Malimon Was the Social Media-Savvy Future of Oregon Republicans. Then She Got a Little Too Famous. 90

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