Food Reviews & Stories Perfectly crispy tempura, a miso soup with surprising depth—and that's just the appetizers. While Sinju's large dining room features oodles of ornate dividers to give diners multiple opportunities for a private experience—or, for parties of at least five, a private, swanky tatami-mat roo More
Restaurant Guide 2005
Food Reviews & Stories Perfectly crispy tempura, a miso soup with surprising depth—and that's just the appetizers. While Sinju's large dining room features oodles of ornate dividers to give diners multiple opportunities for a private experience—or, for parties of at least five, a private, swanky tatami-mat roo More
Restaurant Guide 2005
Food Reviews & Stories Squeeze past the outdoor diners, wait in line between oodles of Italian groceries and a curvaceous wine shelf, then place your order with the cashier, put the number on your table and wait for one of the best upscale, casual Italian meals in Portland. Don't be turned off by the serving system— More
The Reader's Writer
Zadie Smith has bested her acclaimed first novel with On Beauty.
Featured Stories Even though Zadie Smith's debut novel, White Teeth, came out only shortly after she graduated from Cambridge University in 2001, it nailed the glorious chaos of modern-day, multicultural London and wo ... More
Gata Salvaje
A white girl's journey into Portland's Latino stripculture.
Night Avenger Strip clubs are like raindrops in Portland: They're everywhere. And like the rain, stripculture is seemingly indiscriminate, catering to a largely mixed (and mixed-gender) crowd. For anyone to willing ... More
SHALIMAR THE CLOWN
A fatwa-surviving author creates a terrorist.
Books Shalimar the ClownBy Salman Rushdie (Random House, 398 pages, $25.95)"Everyone's story is now a part of everyone else's," claims an oft-repeated line in Salman Rushdie's latest novel, Shalimar the Clo ... More
LITERARY THREESOME
The three top books Portlanders are buying.
Books Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2), by Christopher Paolini #1 at Powell's and downtown BordersPaolini-who, with two novels in the Inheritance Trilogy under his belt, just turned 21-is finally growing out of ... More
AMERICAN MORPHIST
Novelist Bret Easton Ellis on Tom Cruise, the Today show and what's really scary.
Featured Stories He's the kind of writer you want to hate. The 1985 publication of Bret Easton Ellis' debut novel, a depiction of wealthy, nihilistic Los Angeles teens called Less than Zero, brought the then-21-year-o ... More
HEARTBREAKERS MEET BOILERPLATE
Arty Portland comic partners publish a mash-up of sci-fi and historical fiction.
Books Portland's publishing scene includes a burgeoning pool of graphic novelists and artists, thanks in part to the economic influence of Dark Horse Comics, the third-largest comic-book publisher in the co ... More
DAMIEN RICE
Downtown bouncer has clear view of this summer's gun violence.
Q & A From the door outside a popular downtown nightclub, Damien Rice watches you. He checks your clothing, eyes, attitude, looking for hidden weapons or any other trigger that could explode into violence. ... More
CLEARCUT
Stock characters sprout in this lush look at the Pacific Northwest, circa 1970.
Books CLEARCUT by nina shengold (Anchor Books, 352 pages, $13.)Loneliness can turn ugly people into soul mates and landscapes into best friends. Such is the affliction driving the three main characters of C ... More
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Winona Laduke
The Green activist takes on wild rice and the White House. HEARTBREAKERS MEET BOILERPLATE
Arty Portland comic partners publish a mash-up of sci-fi and historical fiction. Benjamin Kunkel
All you really need to succeed as a novelist is... everything possible. Dammit! Examination Nation
Local spelling bee, quiz night and Jeopardy! fanatics: get ready to mark your calendars. AMERICAN MORPHIST
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