U.S. Highway 30 runs coast to coast, from Atlantic City, New Jersey to Astoria, Oregon–a distance of 3,073 miles! With a massive boundary of 5,124.28 acres, Forest Park is the largest city park in the United States! There are nearly 17,000 adult women living within Hwy 30’s Columbia County! In 1920, (the same year the […]
Lance Chess
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Lookin’ for Love in All the Right Places
Portland’s Utterly Satisfying Po’boy Circuit
It is a commonly held belief that oysters are an aphrodisiac. True or not, when breaded, fried, laid to rest between two halves of a crusty baguette and slathered with mayonnaise, the result is somewhat less than erotic. It’s more like deep-fried sex, or as it’s more commonly known, the oyster po’boy. Invented in the […]
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La Hora Feliz del Andina
Worship at Andina’s Incan Temple
Andina Happy Hour 1314 NW Glisan 228-9535 Tues-Fri 4-6 pm Andina’s happy hour is something of a tease. While the components soar and delight, one gets the impression of a greater presence beyond the tidy happy hour menu. Granted, this “presence” is a well-staffed kitchen sizzling, searing, and bustling within plain sight, coupled with glorious […]
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Happy Hunting
Prime Cuts with a Clear Conscience
Vegetarian House 22 NW 4th Ave. 274-0160 One of the strangest aspects of a modern vegetarian diet is navigating the dicey realm of faux meat. Accordingly, there are various camps of vegetarians/vegans who either love the art of meat fabrication or consider such tributes a sacrifice on the altar of human butchery. Either way, most […]
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Expect the Unexpected
The Spits Make Punk Fun Again
The Spits Sat Dec 20 Twilight Café The Spits get compared to the Ramones, the Real Kids, the Screamers and the like, which is fair enough, but not entirely accurate. Their sound is an amalgamation of years of ritualized record connoisseurship ; many, many agonizing band practices; and hundreds (maybe thousands) of 40-ouncers. Basically, their […]
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Good Old Cheeps
Ante Up, Bellingham!
The Cheeps Sun Dec 7 Twilight Cafe I don’t expect much from Bellingham. Do you? I mean there’s Estrus Records–but what have they done for you lately? Oh yeah and, uh, back in the ol’ days, Garage Shock used to keep us entertained one weekend a year. I’m not sure I ever expected a Phoenix […]
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Weird but True
Proto-Punks from Weird Hollywood
The Weirdos Fri Nov 28 Berbati’s The mere existence of The Weirdos goes a long way in discrediting the tiresome debate surrounding punk’s inception. While other bands from the East Coast and England were enjoying successes and attention from widening audiences, The Weirdos, who were formed by brothers John and Dix Denney in 1976, were […]
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Get On The Horn
Horn of Africa: Organic as Possible
Horn of Africa 3939 NE MLK 331-9844 The yellow-painted Horn of Africa restaurant, set on busy MLK, sort-of looks like another Ethiopian spice-and-phone-card-store, and yet, it offers so much more than spices and cheap phone calls. The restaurant’s name is taken from the region of Africa to the East, the part that looks like a […]
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Minty Swirl
Electric Eye’s Punk Buffet
Electric Eye Sat Sept 13 Modern Zoo As the vocalist growl-wails and the guitars, bass, and drums go all chunka-chunka, you’re like, “Oh, this is punk, only really AC/DCish.” But then there’s a breakdown and it’s all “Hoooooowooooowuhoooh” with the feedback and someone’s vocally droning and you’re all, “Weird. This soundsÉ well… psychedelic.” When the […]
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Derby Queen
Ann Calvello, a One-Woman Team
Demon of the Derby dir. Sharon Rutter Opens Fri Aug 1 Hollywood Theater This is the story of Ann Calvello, the firebrand flagship of the sporting pursuit known as roller derby. Once as popular as any other respectable (or otherwise) sport, roller derby reached its peak of popularity during the ’50s and early ’60s, attracting […]
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Derby Queen
Ann Calvello, a One-Woman Team
Demon of the Derby dir. Sharon Rutter Opens Fri Aug 1 Hollywood Theater This is the story of Ann Calvello, the firebrand flagship of the sporting pursuit known as roller derby. Once as popular as any other respectable (or otherwise) sport, roller derby reached its peak of popularity during the ’50s and early ’60s, attracting […]
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Buoy oh Buoy!
The Fishwife Attempts to Reel ‘Em In
Yes, the Fishwife has crabs, so don’t bother calling to ask. While coastal towns enjoy a variety of places like the Fishwife, River City only has a couple of these homespun seafood shanties, and that’s a shame. Inside, her walls are decked with the usual maritime flotsam and jetsam, offering plenty of eye candy upon […]