For the third year running, Burger Week brings you limited edition, $5 burgers from your favorite Portland bars and restaurants, for one week only! This year the promotion will run Aug 10-16, giving you just one week to try as many burgers as you can from over 30 participating establishments! To get you prepared, we’ll […]
Joe Streckert
Joe Streckert is the author of Storied & Scandalous Portland, Oregon: A History of Gambling, Vice, Wits, and Wagers. He writes about books, history, and comics.
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Burger Week Preview: All-Way’s Bacon Blue Cheese Barbecue Burger
For the third year running, Burger Week brings you limited edition, $5 burgers from your favorite Portland bars and restaurants, for one week only! This year the promotion will run Aug 10-16, giving you just one week to try as many burgers as you can from over 30 participating establishments! To get you prepared, we’ll […]
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Old-Timey Portland: Inside the Society Hotel
A recognizable Old Town landmark is getting reformatted into a boutique hotel soon. Later this year the Mariner’s Home on NW 3rd and Couch will become the Society Hotel, a boutique guest house that the owners describe as being similar in style to a hostel. The pink and teal building has a colorful history. In […]
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How to Cook a Rib
Eat Like a Caveman; Don’t Cook Like One
Tips for cooking the perfect rib.
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I’m Done Recapping Game of Thrones
Like the title says, I’m not going to recap Game of Thrones anymore. It’s because of rape. More after the jump. C’mon, Ned. Let’s get out of here. A big part of why I have been consistently excited to recap Game of Thrones is because for a long time it felt like an innovative series. […]
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The End of Mad Men: Genius or Annoying? (Or Both?)
Mad Men ended last night after seven seasons. The show was consistently unpredictable and narratively jagged (in a good way) and the ending was as out of left field as everything else that the show has thrown at us. Spoilers after the jump. My initial response to the end of Mad Men was “That’s it?” […]
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Game of Thrones Recap: Not This Again
That loud noise you heard coming out of Southeast last night was me screaming at a television at the ending of last night’s Game of Thrones. The show is very good at some things. Depicting rape is not one of them. An unpleasant discussion and spoilers after the jump. A catacomb full of severed heads […]
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How to Avoid the Sun
Or, Picking the Perfect Pair of Sunglasses
How to protect your eyes from the hateful, terrible sun.
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Game of Thrones Recap: King of Grammar Edition
Every season of Game of Thrones has reserved the big, dramatic event for episode nine of each season. Ned got his head chopped off in episode nine of season one (um… spoilers I guess), the Battle of the Blackwater was in episode nine of season two, and the Red Wedding was episode nine of season […]
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Game of Thrones Recap: Westerosi Tea Party Edition
Last night’s Game of Thrones was all about the threats of populist uprisings. It was an episode about fanatical, violent people motivated by religion, tradition, and nationalism. Even when confronted by a literal king or queen, those movements don’t back down. They have a life of their own that seems to embody and defy politics, […]
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How the Waterfront Evolved from Shit-Filled Dump to a Place of Beauty
EVEN WHEN IT’S SHROUDED in a fine layer of mist, someone is always out enjoying Portland’s waterfront. People are jogging, walking their dogs, looking at the river, or tapping their cigarette ashes into the water below. On sunny days, it’s a riot. Pedestrians, bicyclists, punks, street musicians—a whole panoply of humanity clusters around the Willamette. […]
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On the Waterfront
How the Waterfront Went from a Shit-Filled Disaster to Portland’s Real “Living Room”
How the waterfront went from a shit-filled disaster to Portland’s real “Living Room.”