Movie Reviews & Stories Like having sex with Cate Blanchett or killing a man with my bare hands, believing in God is something I’ve always wanted to do but probably never will.   More

Movie Reviews & Stories It managed to escape the attention of Portland’s film programmers last year, but Dogtooth, one of 2010’s best and strangest movies, is finally here. If you pay attention to those late-December e   More

Food Reviews & Stories “Healthy Thai Cuisine,” the menu claims, with “healthy cuisine” apparently being defined against food that can literally break into your house and strangle you while you sleep. The oil slick   More

Food Reviews & Stories Angel Food and Fun would be yet another hit-or-miss neighborhood convenience if it didn’t do one thing so soul-stirringly well that I hesitate to publicize it for fear there will not be any left f   More

Food Reviews & Stories Even on a slow Thursday afternoon, when the lone server is busying herself scrubbing salt shakers and kitchen chatter is getting loose and gossipy, Halibut’s keeps its customers waiting. But we’   More

Food Reviews & Stories Taking a cue from Portland’s better cart chefs, who limit themselves to variations on a single, simple theme, Kalé proprietor Makoto Yoshino does only one thing—Japanese curry—and he does it    More

Food Reviews & Stories As of late January, the sign out front and menus inside this downtown restaurant still bore the name Olé Olé. If you happened to miss the explanatory scrawl on the whiteboard when you entered, you   More

Food Reviews & Stories Deep-fried philanthropy! Po’Shines diverts most of its profits into training and counseling for young adults, and everyone from the chef to your server is volunteering his or her time to the cause   More

Movie Reviews & Stories I’ll give director Im Sang-soo a pity A for audacity, because it takes some kind of punch-drunk courage to remake a twisted classic by discarding nearly everything that made the original so delig   More

Books  Damn straight I judge books by their covers, and I judged the hell out of Lonely Christopher’s The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse   More