Food Reviews & Stories It’s an awkward arrival. Pulling up to a shabby Beaverton strip mall at dusk on a Saturday night, we expect to walk into a busy restaurant. It’s totally empty. Called from the kitchen, our h More
Who Ya Got?
Late-night eats at KimSatGot Pocha
Food Reviews & Stories It’s an awkward arrival. Pulling up to a shabby Beaverton strip mall at dusk on a Saturday night, we expect to walk into a busy restaurant. It’s totally empty. Called from the kitchen, our h More
Sic Semper Lactucis
All hail the Mextiza Caesar salad
Food Reviews & Stories I may never return to the original Caesar salad. Tijuana, where the Caesar was created by an Italian immigrant in 1924, is supposedly still safe for tourists. I’m not so sure. That salad—l More
Summer Guide 2012: Nifty 50
John Lovegrove hits 50 local breweries in a single day.
Featured Stories It was a terrible time for a malfunctioning alarm clock. Don’t worry, John Lovegrove wasn’t late for work or a flight—he was behind schedule on a trip to the bar, missing his 7 am deadline f More
Summer Guide 2012: Pedal to the Pacific
Riding to the beach is easy, but it might make you hate cars.
Featured Stories They crashed through the rainforest like dinosaurs. A distant rumble, a whoosh, and more rumble, before the creatures were gone and I could again hear my bike tires roll softly along the edge of t More
Coalition Brewing: 2 Legit 2 Quit
Bar Reviews The MC Hammer card is a good omen. Hanging at Coalition Brewing (2724 SE Ankeny St., 894-8080, coalitionbrewing.com), it shows MC at his peak, gold harem pants in full flutter. He is untouchable b More
Minizo
Food Cart Reviews Minizo’s Munny population has exploded. The colony of vinyl toys was kept in check when the cart was downtown. But Minizo is now on Northeast Alberta Street, where a shop sells the toys around t More
Scott Jurek, Eat & Run
Tramps like us, baby.
Books The last few miles are rough for Scott Jurek. As Eat & Run (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 272 pages, $26) comes to a close, we find the Michael Jordan of ultra-running in a bad way. Abandoned by More
Drank: Two Dogs IPA (Coalition Brewing Co.)
Drank I wasn’t excited to try Coalition’s Two Dogs IPA. Most new Northwest IPAs are basically alpha acid concentrates with none of the fresh, zesty hoppiness I love. But the guy pouring samples of t More
Headout: Wine & Wag
The life of a veteran Oregon wine dog.
Headout Before people buy your wine, they want to pet your dog. Alex Sokol Blosser has accepted this. “I don’t know why—it’s gotta be that when you go to a farm, you expect to see a dog,” he s More
Primer: Schoolboy Q
Music Stories Born: Oct. 26, 1986, on an Army base in West Germany. Sounds like: A thugged-out West Coast version of Kid Cudi who wants to go clubbin’ with 50 Cent but ends up taking a bunch of ’shrooms an More
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Oregon’s 10 Best Beers
2011’s finest brews from Portland and the rest of the state. Beer of the Future
A new era of Oregon hops will better your brew. Lake Affront
Oswego Lake’s big secret: It’s public and you can paddle it. In fact, I did. Confessions of a Chubster
The moral crusade against fatties. A Prim Woodland
The Woodsman Tavern tastes good and looks better. Teff Love
Crowning Portland’s best Ethiopian restaurant. Locking Up Oswego Lake
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What's the best way to spike a McDonald's Shamrock Shake? Flew the Coop
D.B. Cooper (hoo hoo hoo) took the money and jumped. Drank: Dunkelweizen (Occidental Brewing Co.)
2011’s finest brews from Portland and the rest of the state. Beer of the Future
A new era of Oregon hops will better your brew. Lake Affront
Oswego Lake’s big secret: It’s public and you can paddle it. In fact, I did. Confessions of a Chubster
The moral crusade against fatties. A Prim Woodland
The Woodsman Tavern tastes good and looks better. Teff Love
Crowning Portland’s best Ethiopian restaurant. Locking Up Oswego Lake
Lake Oswego’s city council has voted to bar park access to the public lake. Spiked Shamrock
What's the best way to spike a McDonald's Shamrock Shake? Flew the Coop
D.B. Cooper (hoo hoo hoo) took the money and jumped. Drank: Dunkelweizen (Occidental Brewing Co.)
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