Night Avenger "And now a tough question ladies and gents," bellows the tuxedo-clad man standing in the middle of Wilf's Restaurant and Piano Bar, the glorified waiting room of Portland's Union Station. "Is a sponge ...   More

Night Avenger Davey Jones Locker is a tease.The first time I tried to visit the newish all-ages club, which squats across from the Mt. Scott Funeral Home on Southeast Foster Road, I was too late. At 10:30 pm, the L ...   More

Night Avenger Rolling around town in a little yellow school bus, listening to a historian spout factoids about the founding of the Brewery Blocks (in 1856 by Henry Weinhard) seems a sobering experience. The intrepi ...   More

Night Avenger The dancer at the 715 Inn's "Reggae on Broadway" had reached nirvana. A leathery, bowlegged man in his 40s wearing a tank top emblazoned with the legend "Jamaica Connection," he bent his knees in time ...   More

Night Avenger Neil Young says it's better to burn out than fade away, but the crew at the new Night Light Lounge might disagree. An electrical fire forced the Southeast Clinton Street club to board up its door last ...   More

Night Avenger History books offer few figures that stand as fiercely as the pirates beneath the fluttering skull and crossbones. They wrought havoc, they drank, they caroused, they fought. And though most people th ...   More

Night Avenger Last month, the booze-splashed rumors raced through town as soon as Sabala's at Mount Tabor opened its doors: tall tales of broken beer bottles and games of leapfrog played in the middle of Hawthorne ...   More

Night Avenger Every Monday night it plays out the same way. While tables full of Chinese families share duck and noodle platters in the dining room next door, Suzy Wong's grittier patrons take over the lounge. Old ...   More

Night Avenger In the 1962 movie Gypsy, burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee (Natalie Wood) gets some valuable advice from a posse of withered old strippers: "You gotta have a gimmick."Obviously, the contestants vying for ...   More

Night Avenger As DJ Marantic shuffled through a pile of CDs, preparing for his set at Slabtown on a recent Monday night, tempers flared. "Did the Red Wings lose? 'Cause I wanna burn your eyes out, bro!," a skinny g ...   More