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Mountain Rescue Pale Ale (Goodlife Brewing Company)


Drank
Mountain Rescue Pale Ale is a hybrid. The idea, GoodLife Brewing says, was to create a beer without either the hoppiness of an IPA or the maltiness of an amber. In this, the new Bend brewery suc   More
 
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Beer Review: Logsdon Peche 'n' Brett

And other Oregon beer news

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Food & Drink
Portland breweries usually roll out a couple new beers every month. Some, like Cascade Barrel House, tap several kegs of new stuff every week, more than anyone not behind their bar can track. In the hype-driven craft brew market this makes sense, I guess, as there's no easier way to distinguish your product than to make hundreds of slig...   More
 
Saturday, May 5, 2012 by MARTIN CIZMAR

Requiem for a View

Amadeus Manor has the best view in town


Food Reviews & Stories
People have stopped looking up in restaurants. We’re so busy Instagramming our plates, or poring over our meal’s backstory, that a great view seems superfluous. People now chat excitedly about   More
 
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Drank: Imperial Pray for Snow (10 Barrel Brewing)


Drank
Bend’s 10 Barrel Brewing is locked and loaded, with the busiest of the many brewpubs at the foot of Mount Bachelor and plans to open a sister spot in Boise manned with talent poached from other    More
 
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Broadway Cigar Co.: Smokin’ Wheels


Bar Reviews
Thanks to the war on tobacco, it’s no harder to get a joint than a good stogie in this town. While so much of Portland’s diet is bacon-based, and food carts will soon be allowed to pour $2 wel   More
 
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Headout: Two Rounds

Earth Day vs. Record Store Day.


Headout
It’s a big weekend for the smug and self-congratulatory. Saturday is Record Store Day, a celebration of crass consumerism and the fetishization of impractical and outdated technology. Sunday i   More
 
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Locking Up Oswego Lake

Lake Oswego’s city council has voted to bar park access to the public lake.


News
All of Oregon’s navigable waterways are public, but some are more public than others. Or so it goes in Lake Oswego...   More
 
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Hair of the Dog Tasting Room: Dog Don’t Hunt


Bar Reviews
Until recently, getting Hair of the Dog’s barrel-aged brews straight from the breeder meant waiting in the rain by a loading dock. Hair of the Dog’s tasting room (61 SE Yamhill St., 232-6585,    More
 
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Derf Backderf, My Friend Dahmer

The killer and the cartoonist.


Books
There are only two notable alumni of Ohio’s Revere High School. John “Derf” Backderf draws The City, a Crumby comic appearing in alternative weekly newspapers like (but not) this one. Jeffre   More
 
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Run Chicken Run


Food Cart Reviews
The best bird at Run Chicken Run is painted, not plated. Does any Portland food cart have better art than the man-sized rooster scurrying across this trailer’s wall? A vibration of bright colors   More
 
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR
 

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