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From the Editor
In this Market Guide, we’re making a few assumptions. We figure you know where you get your daily bread and your weekly milk (or rice milk, as the case may be).
The decision to do
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Food Cart Reviews
Perhaps in keeping with their precarious geography,
located at the Asian-European border between Turkey and Russia,
Georgians are known both for their quick hospitality and equal speed at
giving
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Performance
For the first 45 minutes of Profile Theatre’s My Children! My Africa!,
you may think a latter-day Mr. Chips has single-handedly defeated the
entire edifice of 1980s-era South African apartheid w
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Jawohl! Maifest, Germany’s oldest sausage party, is here.
Headout
Oktoberfest gets a lot of column inches—the legislated
purity of Bavarian beer, the goofy hats, the giant urinal troughs—while
Maifest always gets short shrift.
And who does not excite himse
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Books
As a defense mechanism, the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
was equal parts identification and repression. Having weathered a
decade of attacks from the
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Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby remakes the ’20s for the tweens.
Movie Reviews & Stories
Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby
begins, appropriately enough, with decoration—a gold-filigreed frame
that accordions outward in 3-D before suddenly cutting to a swimmy shot
of
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Bar Reviews
While the world around it bathed in
filthy lucre, now-defunct dive bar Chin Yen was a dimly lit, dirt-cheap
holdout of turpentine drinks and oil-slick Chinese food, home to old men
who fought th
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Former Fin chef Trent Pierce works wonders in Wafu’s back room.
Food Reviews & Stories
Going to Roe is a bit like passing into the Egyptian
afterlife. Before you reach its peaceful space, you must first pass
through the land of wish fulfillment—in this case, the lively food
tunn
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Bar Guide 2013
After long marches through Portland’s
bars, pubs, lounges, taverns and brewpubs, we’ve come to believe that
bars age a lot like the wine or whiskey served at them. Only a few are
at their ve
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Bar Guide 2013
Rare that a name is as felicitous as Victory Bar’s. Willamette Week’s first-ever Bar of the Year isn’t shiny or new or even particularly fashionable. It’s just a goddamn winner.
The bar came
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