Food & Drink Day 27 of our 31-day ice cream feast, we visit a cupcake shop that's getting into the ice cream business.

Saint Cupcake
3300 SE Belmont St., 235-0078; and 1138 Southwest Morrison St., 473-8760, saintcupcake.com.Price per scoop: Sundae cups $3, push-it pops $3, i...   More

Cover Story The “Best of” edition is a tired staple of the newspaper industry. Every year, alt-weeklies across the country, from The Athens News to the Wausau City Pages, anoint their city’s best happy ho   More

Food & Drink OK, we've put this off long enough. We're hitting an ice cream store a day every day in July, and eventually we had to go back...
 Salt & Straw
2035 NE Alberta St., 208-3867; and 838 NW 23rd Ave., 271-8168, saltandstraw.com.Price per scoop: $3.75
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Music Stories Formed: In 1991 in Sydney by a group studying early childhood education.  Sounds like: Sixties pop songs about eating fruit instead of making out with girls. For fans of: Afternoon naps, Fisher   More

Q & A Ramez Naam wants to build a better human. Formerly a program manager at Microsoft, Naam is a “transhumanist”: someone who believes humanity can and should be improved through biotechnology.    More

Bar Reviews After walking through a brightly lit hall of middle-aged men playing pool and watching UFC, it’s vaguely disconcerting to descend a staircase and suddenly find yourself in a dim room full of e   More

Food Reviews & Stories “Vanilla” has become a dirty word. It’s now synonymous with bland and uninspired, but the ancient Totonac people believed the vanilla plant sprang from the spilled blood of a beautiful princ   More

Movies & Television The self-described "star" of the History Channel's hilariously pseudoscientific series Ancient Aliens, publisher of Legendary Times magazine ("the only ancient astronaut publication in the world"), and bona fide Internet meme Giorgio A. Tsoukalos...   More

Food & Drink The latest scoop on new places to eat and booze in Portland, via the week's OLCC license applications:Four Portland "urban" wineries, Vincent Wine Company, Bow & Arrow, Helioterra Wines and    More

Food & Drink Once again we look to the future of Portland's dining and drinking scene, via OLCC applications:
After about a zillion years, the space that formerly housed Music Millennium on Northwest 23rd is finally getting a new tenant: The Fireside. Not much more info other than a name at this point, but it's a good location, so it's nice to finally see something happening there. 
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