Culture Miniature golf is still wholesome. Unlike kickball, dodgeball, roller skating or pinball, it’s still mostly played sober, fueled by ice cream and the sweaty palms of teenage romance. Among the More
Puttering Around
Taking a swing at Portland’s putt-putt courses.
Softer Than Prozac
Despite celebrity status, a local therapy llama continues his charitable work.
Culture Animal therapy is big and getting bigger. Veterans returning from the Bush Wars are raising dogs to cope with post-traumatic stress disorder, and recent studies show that animals reduce anxiety More
Quarter Stories
Turning Portland pay phones into time portals.
Culture Portlanders are slow to part with public relics. Rather than phase out the iron hitching rings that line our curbs from the days when people actually rode horses in Portland, the city repairs and More
The Funny Glut
So everyone’s a comedian now?
Culture A priest, a rabbi and an atheist walk into a bar. They put their names on the list and hope to get called up for three minutes onstage. They’re aspiring standups—like everyone else in Portland More
Your First Overnighter
Everything you need to know before your first bikepacking trip.
Culture Rochelle Comeaux and Don Eaton remember their first overnighter as cyclists. It was the first day of their 70-day cross-country trip along the TransAmerica Trail, which winds 4,233 miles from As More
Frames Within Frames
A full year of bike-based art.
Culture Portland cyclists are not content to limit their demonstrations of affection to soggy winter commuting, bombing downhill from the zoo and quaffing too much beer at Apex. Portlanders who worship More
U-Lock or You Walk
Some surprising bike-theft facts from cops and bike shops.
Culture Brian Leber watched an imposing figure roll into Bike Gallery with a road bike that had been sprayed black with truck bed-liner paint. “I knew right away it was our bike,” he says. A $2,00 More
Pedaling Their Wares
Which Portland bike delivery services are worth the price?
Culture Setting aside the obvious ecological benefits of bicycles over idling cars, bike couriers have always been an efficient choice in dense city environments because they don’t have to worry about s More
Seven-Day Cycle
A noncyclist gives up his car to live one week by bike.
Culture In the four years I’ve lived in Portland, I have ridden a Razor scooter more often than I’ve ridden a bike. That is to say, I have never ridden a bike in Portland. Like a good, native Southern More
Gift Guide 2012: The Lifestylist
Culture Within easy reach of desert, river, waterfall, lake, mountain or ocean, Portland has always bred and attracted an army of lifestyle heroes—dabblers in the unspeakably arcane arts of being outs More
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The moral crusade against fatties. The Olive Gardener
Where no man has grown before. How To: Stay Warm And Dry
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With Craigslist’s Missed Connections, locals flirt without consequences—or closure. Gymania
A side-by-side comparison of Portland gyms Bring On the Apocalypse
The 29 best New Year's Eve parties in Portland Thingmakers’ Mark
The branding boys at OMFG make Portland look cool, one Pop-A-Shot at a time. Singing in the Strange
Karaoke night as only Portland can do it.
A little regular care can save you an expensive trip to a mechanic. Lake Affront
Oswego Lake’s big secret: It’s public and you can paddle it. In fact, I did. Confessions of a Chubster
The moral crusade against fatties. The Olive Gardener
Where no man has grown before. How To: Stay Warm And Dry
Coping with Oregon sunshine through trial and error. The Portland That Wasn’t
With Craigslist’s Missed Connections, locals flirt without consequences—or closure. Gymania
A side-by-side comparison of Portland gyms Bring On the Apocalypse
The 29 best New Year's Eve parties in Portland Thingmakers’ Mark
The branding boys at OMFG make Portland look cool, one Pop-A-Shot at a time. Singing in the Strange
Karaoke night as only Portland can do it.
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