The Most Important Things That Happened in Portland Culture This Week, From Best to Worst

K-pop stans, meet your new uncle.

ABC’s Portland-Set, Los Angeles-Filmed Detective Series Finds the Right Blend

Stumptown Kilts

For gents desiring the kicky freedom of Highlands garb without the tartan flair, Stumptown Kilts provides a Portland update to the pleated skirt.

The Family That Controls Stumptown Coffee Is Grappling With Its Nazi Roots

JAB Holding Company bought a controlling stake in Stumptown Coffee in 2015.

Shoplifters of Portland Unite in the Trailer for New Netflix Series “Trinkets”

Portland-set Netflix series “Trinkets” follows the lives of three teenage girls that struggle with an impulsive desire to steal. Their thievery is what makes them feel like outcasts, but it’s also what brings them together.

Watch Cobie Smulders Ruin Two Kidnappers’ Day in the Trailer for Portland-Set ABC Show “Stumptown”

In February, it was announced that acclaimed Portland-made comic series Stumptown would be adapted into a pilot for ABC, starring Cobie Smulders of How I Met Your Mother and Avengers fame. The show is officially on the schedule for fall, and the network just released a trailer for the series.

A Gritty, Portland-Based Comic Series Is Being Adapted into a Television Pilot for ABC

The pilot will star Cobie Smulders—best known to TV audiences for playing Robin “Sparkles” Scherbatsky on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother—as a private eye named Dex Parios.

The Blazers Are the “Coffee Snobs” of the NBA, According to ESPN

Sure, you probably don’t eat at Bamboo Sushi four times a week, and your Twitter squabbles rarely become meme fodder. But in at least one way, our local basketball heroes are just like us: They’re obsessed with coffee. And they’re very particular about it.