Food Reviews & Stories Most of Portland’s more than 40 coffee roasters are turning out exceptional beans for those of us who don’t mind caffeine, but what about those among us who love coffee but have been warned off the hard stuff?   More

Food Reviews & Stories It is a cliché of Portland’s food-centric marketing that we are ground zero for the wave of small, so-called craft distilleries that have popped up all over America in the past decade. It’s a    More

Food Reviews & Stories While pour-over has become the standard at the city’s finest cafes, home coffee geeks have been steadily expanding their arsenals of java-related gadgetry. Where once the Chemex and French press    More

Food Reviews & Stories So you’ve bought a $16 bag of Ethiopia Yirgacheffe from your local microroaster. How long do you have to drink it before all that dollar-an-ounce specialness is gone? According to Courier Coffee    More

Food Reviews & Stories Your morning cup has gotten more expensive of late. Why? Raw, green coffee beans now cost more than they have at any point in the past 14 years. There are a lot of reported reasons for this state o   More

Cover Story Why is Portland, of all places, the capital of American coffee culture? There’s no overt explanation why a city celebrated for its slacker attitude also devotes so much energy to the roasting and    More

Arts & Books The Bridgetown Comedy Fest is just 17 days away! Today we're featuring Hari Kondabolu, in my opinion one of the funniest young comics in America. (Also, his brother, Ashok, is one of our funniest hype men.) Kondabolu's aggressi...   More

Arts & Books In just three weeks, Bridgetown Comedy Festival will flood every venue in the Hawthorne Stumble Zone with some 170 comedians for four days. It's more comedy than it is actually possible to consume, so scheduling your laughs is bound to pose a problem. To get you started, we'll post some fine video from a Bridgetown performer here e...   More

Headout Portland! We lead the world in pinball bars, artery-clogging street food and impractical bicycles. Our dominance in childish pursuits for adults is so universally renowned that it’s generated doz   More

Arts & Books A quickie today: I don’t have any great complaints about the architecture of the Mirabella, a recently completed high-rise "continuing care retirement community" in the South Waterfront. I'm not sure who wants to retire to a building adjacent to a working shipyard. And I think the heinous gray box at...   More