spare-room

The Top Five Places to Drink On Thanksgiving in Portland

Bars in Portland that are open on Thanksgiving.

The Spare Room Restaurant and Lounge

Whether you’re looking for bingo, karaoke, pool, lasers on a dance floor, a fat stack of lottery tickets or reruns of NCIS on one of the bar’s TVs, the Spare Room has you covered.

Five Queer-Centric Dance Parties In Portland

Get down, bbs.

The Spare Room Is the Antithesis of New Portland’s Bougie Homogeneity

Housed in a gigantic space that used to be a bowling alley, it’s the kind of place where the best of both epochs commingle under dim lights with strong, cheap drinks.

Sasquatch Music Festival, An Oyster Bus and 12 Other Things to Do and See in Portland May 23-29

Where we’ll be reliving the Malheur occupation and the best music of 2009 this week.

The Spare Room Is What Would Happen if All of America Got Drunk at a Bowling Alley

The bar might host card tournaments for the elderly and infirm early in the day, a wedding party in the afternoon, and a six-deep indie-rock bill later on.

Jason Lytle's Favorite Portland Places

“I used to refrain from telling anyone about it, because it was my favorite trail running area and I don’t like to see people when I’m out on a trail. Well, I’m gone now, so have at it!”

Grandaddy's Jason Lytle Moved to Portland, Bombed at Karaoke and Got Divorced. So He Went Back Home and Restarted His Band.

We had a chat with Lytle about cell phones, anti-California sentiments and life on the fringes of Cully.

Needle Exchange: A DJ Questionnaire with B Hammer'd

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

Needle Exchange: A DJ Questionnaire with Saltfeend