Drank Stodgy old gin has seen something of a renaissance of late, with West Coast craft distillers livening it up with lavender, caraway and malted barley. “Gin” is broadly defined, with spirits f More
Aria Portland Dry Gin (Aria)
Drank Stodgy old gin has seen something of a renaissance of late, with West Coast craft distillers livening it up with lavender, caraway and malted barley. “Gin” is broadly defined, with spirits f More
Sun$hine (Tahni Holt)
A cardboard world, shiny and sequined.
Dance A towering wall of used cardboard boxes stretches diagonally across the stage, clear packing tape glinting in the light. Robert Tyree enters, tall and long-limbed and dressed head to toe in sequ More
Judyth Vary Baker, Me & Lee
Love means never having to say you shot the president.
Books As the 50th anniversary of the John F. Kennedy assassination nears, in 2013, two out of three Americans still believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in murdering the president. Judyth Vary More
Making Old Tricks Feel New
With Skyfall, the Bond franchise marks its 50th birthday.
Movie Reviews & Stories James Bond should be forgiven a little creakiness. Ian Fleming’s super-spy has spent 22 films and 50 years getting punched and shot. His jet lag has to be excruciating. Let’s not even think of More
Smashed
Beer me! Wait, maybe don’t.
Movie Reviews & Stories Though there’s no dearth of films about alcoholism and recovery, Smashed reeled me back not to Barfly or Days of Wine and Roses, but to Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry’s 1947 modernist novel. L More
This Must Be the Place
Red lipstick, David Byrne and a Nazi manhunt.
Movie Reviews & Stories This Must Be the Place is not a movie so much as a feature-length opportunity to gaze deeply into the creases of Sean Penn’s face. Penn plays forlorn and aging glam rocker Cheyenne, whose heav More
Cultured Caveman
Food Cart Reviews Our club-wielding ancestors would have a rough time making chicken tenders the Cultured Caveman way. Considering Paleolithic hominids couldn’t reliably control fire, they’d have to hand- More
Album Review: The Slants
The Yellow Album (Self-Released)
Album Reviews [DANCE ROCK] However constant and far-flung their touring—last year’s breakneck schedule capped by a New Year’s Eve jaunt through Kosovo entertaining the troops—the Slants remain Portland� More
Applebee’s: Jell-O There
Bar Reviews A bartender at the Lloyd Center Applebee’s (1439 NE Halsey St, 284-8040, applebees.com) has apparently gone rogue. A mysterious bartender—everyone involved denies knowledge—is crafting seemi More
Paley’s Other Place
Imperial is plenty ambitious, but not quite ready to rule.
Food Reviews & Stories Vitaly Paley makes a mean stack of flapjacks. Although he has operated Paley’s Place in the Alphabet District since 1995, we’re only now learning about his pancake prowess thanks to the breakf More
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