Featured Stories
Vancouver’s nightlife is not bountiful, but it is
comprehensive. Along downtown’s Main Street corridor, you’ll find an
Irish bar, a sports bar, a martini bar, a wine bar, a discoteca, a
br
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Take me to Vancouver, where the grass is legal and gays can marry.
Cover Story
Civilization beckons with red and orange
lights. They’re faint at first, glowing brighter as you drive north. The
little green sign marking the border sneaks up on you.
“Entering Washington,
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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
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Food Reviews & Stories
I was nervous the first time, shuffling
my feet and crumpling the top of the paper bag as I waited for the
barista’s attention. “I want something that will go well with this,” I
offer caut
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Medford’s Porter Lombard makes wine unlike anyone.
Drank
Porter Lombard’s laboratory is dim and cluttered, its
shelves packed with mismatched bottles of purple and red fluid
surrounded by knives, beakers, notebooks, plastic tubing and one giant
wood
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Drank
We mustn’t begrudge successful rock musicians their
gentlemanly hobbies. As with all gentry who didn’t amass their fortunes
by working too terribly hard, they’re tasked with developing pursu
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Bar Reviews
The high-def version of Big Buck Hunter
looks nothing like the primitive arcade cabinet I remember from the
rural America of my younger years. The deer flash vivid terror in their
big brown eyes
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Food Cart Reviews
Demographic shifts have profoundly altered the Alphabet
District lunch crowd. In the last few months, redevelopment of Slabtown
warehouses has brought the neighborhood a hungry and frugal blue-col
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Music Stories
[BUDDY ROCK] Japandroids had the breakup talk. After three
rough years booking their own little shows in Vancouver, B.C., the
exuberant power duo was planning to call it quits, self-releasing its
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Imperial is plenty ambitious, but not quite ready to rule.
Food Reviews & Stories
Vitaly Paley makes a mean stack of flapjacks. Although he
has operated Paley’s Place in the Alphabet District since 1995, we’re
only now learning about his pancake prowess thanks to the breakf
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