Food & Drink According to a press release from the new Portland Trader Vic's, Mayor Sam Adams will declare August "Portland Tiki Month" at the bar's grand opening Aug. 1. So break out the leis, y'all.  It's retro-future drinking this week!The news from this week's    More

Food & Drink The Oregon Brewers Festival is now well underway. I dropped by yesterday afternoon and made it through 23 beers. Here are my unabridged tasting note. Think I'm totally wrong about these beers? I'm eager to hear what you thought of them.
BEERS I LIKEDNinkasi Helles Belles: Munchener Style Helles LagerUnlike Ninkasi's big-bodied knockou...   More

Food & Drink The Oregon Brewers Festival begins in just over an hour, with 84 breweries offering their wares for evaluation by the thousands of beer geeks and frat boys who will transform Tom McCall Waterfront Park into a dusty wasteland by the time the festival closes on Sunday. There are plenty of brews to be excited about this year (the lineup is o...   More

Featured Stories 1985 - Best Pizza Thrower Dave Hite is something of a hero among working-class eaters. Before the bespectacled young man from Spokane, best known as the dapper saxophone player for the Fabulous K-T   More

Cover Story “I have an idea,” our publisher said, charging headlong into my cubicle, “for Best of Portland. This is the 26th year.    More

Arts & Books The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art has hired Angela Mattox as its new resident artistic director. The organization, which produces the annual Time Based Art festival, has had guest curators—first Mark Russell of...   More

Food & Drink Celeste Williams has applied for a beer and wine license for a restaurant called Bird Dog in the Hawthorne Boulevard space currently occupied by No Fish Go Fish. Stick with the animal puns, I guess.The owners of newish St. Johns restaurant Cathedral Park Kitchen have applied for a license to open a distillery, Pure Lush Spirits in t...   More

Food Reviews & Stories The eight Portland-area outlets of Sonny Kim’s Mio Sushi empire go through a lot of fish any given day—so much so that the chain buys its sashimi fodder in very, very large quantities, and distrib   More

Performance In 1973, an artist named Michael Craig-Martin put a glass of water on a glass bathroom shelf and insisted it was an oak tree.    More

Arts & Books Academy Award-winning actor William Hurt will return to Portland this October to perform in Artists Repertory Theatre's production of the Harold Pinter play No Man's Land. It will be Hurt's fourth appearance at A...   More