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Elvis Room

Don’t expect to hear Elvis on the speakers or any cardboard cutouts of the King here.

Remembering Portland Polymath Jeffrey Wonderful

Jeffrey Wilson, aka Jeffrey Wonderful, co-founded the Rose City Rollers, played in bands, appeared in Dandy Warhols videos and designed some of Portland’s coolest bars. He died Oct. 1 in a motorcycle accident.

A Guide to Creating Your Own Bar Crawl in Portland’s Inner Eastside

There’s something for everyone in the district that starts near the Burnside and Morrison bridges and stretches east into Buckman and beyond.

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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