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In Portland, Every Bar Has a Story. Consider This Your Primer on the City’s Own Drunk History.

if you really want to know what makes this town such a special place to drink, you must know its lore.

The Poet Who Used to Live Beneath Former Bar East End Was Evicted Over an Antique Firearm

Customers typically ignored him, thinking he was “a homeless guy who snuck in or drunk uncle to one of the bands.”

Elvis Room Is a White-Walled Pelvic Thrust of Budget Extravagance and Low-Down Drinking

It’s a white-painted, French-Colonial hall of gilded mirrors and painted naked ladies.

A Two-Story Elvis-Themed Bar is Planned in Inner Southeast Portland

Portland will likely soon have a bar on Southeast Grand Avenue devoted to that great American sweat factory and rock and roll icon, the King himself.

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Bureau Assignment Memos Show Mayor Ted Wheeler Is Focused on Paranoid Park and Food Carts

Downtown Portland food carts. (Alex Wittwer)

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

IN THE BASEMENT: Events of the past year left Portland’s reputation in tatters. (Henry Cromett)

Protester Arrested for Smashing Windows in Portland Allegedly Carried Four Molotov Cocktails in His Backpack

Portland police arrest a protester on Jan. 20, 2021. (Chris Nesseth)

Gov. Kate Brown Reversed Herself Twice Last Week on the Date Elderly Oregonians Could Get the Coronavirus Vaccine

Vaccinations in Portland. (Motoya Nakamura / Multnomah County)

Most Commented

A Neighbor Describes What Happened When Law Enforcement Stopped Responding to an Armed Encampment in North Portland 204

A Key Indicator of Real Estate Investors’ Interest in Portland Shows a Precipitous Decline 115

Oregon’s Most Prominent QAnon Proponent and a Timber Unity Spokeswoman Attended the Insurrection at U.S. Capitol 114

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

U.S. Rep Kurt Schrader Votes Against $2,000 Federal Stimulus Check 102

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