Sports Matt Braddock wasn’t about to let a fellow Portland Timbers fan pay $80 for a $25 ticket. Before the Timbers match against the San Jose Earthquakes on April 14, Braddock saw a scalper trying t More
Ticket Masters
Timbers Army members take the fight against scalping into their own hands.
Sports Matt Braddock wasn’t about to let a fellow Portland Timbers fan pay $80 for a $25 ticket. Before the Timbers match against the San Jose Earthquakes on April 14, Braddock saw a scalper trying t More
Starbuck
Galactically dumb. Means well.
Movie Reviews & Stories This is the sort of movie that critics were invented to despise: a crowd-pleasing, oafish, wildly implausible pile of sentimental dreck. But just like its main character, a French-Canadian meat- More
Pedaling Their Wares
Which Portland bike delivery services are worth the price?
Culture Setting aside the obvious ecological benefits of bicycles over idling cars, bike couriers have always been an efficient choice in dense city environments because they don’t have to worry about s More
Thale
A tense Norwegian tale of the tailed.
Movie Reviews & Stories A brief synopsis of Norwegian folklore: Nature is scary as shit, and everything’s out to get you. In a vast and frigid nation still so afraid of wolves it almost eradicates them each year, the More
Nudi Scene
Asian-European fusion from an Asian perspective.
Food Reviews & Stories About halfway through a meal at Woodstock’s Nudi Noodle Place, my dining companion looked up and said, “This tastes good, but I feel like I don’t understand what’s going on anymore.” T More
Rookery: Empty Nest
Bar Reviews The cavernous Rookery bar (1331 SW Broadway, 222-7673, ravenandrosepdx.com)—above Raven & Rose in the ancient Ladd Carriage House—looks like the thick-raftered parlor of a man whose things More
Headout: The Pitiful Princes
Disney princes offering themselves as escorts for hire.
Headout When we saw that the Star Theater was hosting scantily clad Disney princesses getting down with a stripper pole, it looked a bit familiar: Heck, it’s basically the plot of Spring Breakers, excep More
The Leaky Roof: Flight to Dub
Bar Reviews The Leaky Roof (1538 SW Jefferson St., 222-3745, theleakyroof.com) may be across from Lincoln High School, but its patrons are distinctly longer of tooth and eyebrow. The bar serves its once-blue- More
Sam Lipsyte, The Fun Parts
Books Sam Lipsyte chortlingly revels in the warty and the ruined of America, the wounded strivers who live in the world of spit, shit and piss. He’s also an unrepentant self-amuser prone to the lite More
Masa? No Mas.
Food Reviews & Stories At Uno Mas, the new taco shop from Oswaldo Bibiano (Autentica, Mextiza), the al pastor pork is carved off a spinning spit and paired with a shard of pineapple in a taco’s 3-inch corn masa enve More
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This 82nd avenue joint is delicately Chinese and discreetly Korean. The Tooth of the Matter
A new call to put fluoride in the city’s water raises old fears. Mari-Wanna?
Oregon and two other states are huffing and puffing toward legalizing weed. But don’t buy that bong just yet. Jonathan Bloom American Wasteland
Fine foodstuff is a terrible thing to waste. Paul Collins Murder of the Century
Dying to be famous. Portland's Goose Hollow Tracy J. Prince with Bud Clark
A Fine Show
Tony Demes is back with Noisette. Restaurant Guide 2012: Off the Hook
The secrets of good sushi. Driving After the Influence
If Washington legalizes dope, driving there could become risky for tokers. Drink 2012: High Culture, Low Places
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