Ned Lannamann, Author at Portland Mercury

Drink Up! It’s the Portland Mercury‘s Craft Beer Guide

Our Favorite New Places to Drink, Neighborhood Beer Crawls, and More

Ned LannamannJune 27, 2018 11:43 amJuly 12, 2022 9:46 pm

Dylan Goldberger This week’s Mercury is our second annual Craft Beer Issue, and while it’s not quite as good as actually sipping on a delicious, locally made craft beer, we got damn close. The issue, which is on newsstands now, is also inside of your computer monitor, and it includes nine of the best new […]

Food and Drink

Beer Crawl: Sipping in Richmond

Southeast Hawthorne and Division

Ned LannamannJune 27, 2018 4:00 amJuly 12, 2022 3:42 pm

A beer crawl along Southeast 34th Avenue, including Growler’s Taproom, Imperial Bottle Shop, and Sessionable.

Music

A Previously Lost 1963 Session from John Coltrane’s Classic Quartet

Both Directions at Once Reveals a Hard Day’s Work

Ned LannamannJune 27, 2018 4:00 amAugust 22, 2022 7:53 pm

The lost John Coltrane album, Both Directions at Once, reveals a hard day’s work.

Food and Drink

Rosenstadt Brewing Keeps Up Tradition, Untraditionally

And Now There’s a Permanent Place to Drink Their Line of German-Style Beers

Ned LannamannJune 27, 2018 4:00 amAugust 22, 2022 7:53 pm

Seven of Rosenstadt Brewing’s German-style beers are now served at Olympia Provisions Public House.

Food and Drink

Little Beast’s Beer Garden Is a Feast for the Senses

The Farmhouse-Style Brewery Also Has a New Production Facility

Ned LannamannJune 27, 2018 4:00 amJuly 12, 2022 3:42 pm

The farmhouse-style Little Beast Brewing has been growing quickly.

Movies & TV

Leave No Trace Review: An Extraordinary Oregon Story

Longest Camping Trip Ever!

Ned LannamannJune 27, 2018 4:00 amJuly 12, 2022 3:42 pm

Longest camping trip ever!

Food and Drink

Thirsty Monk Spreads the Gospel of Belgian Beer

Food Flights and Unique Brews in the Former Bazi Bierbrasserie Space

Ned LannamannJune 27, 2018 4:00 amJuly 12, 2022 3:42 pm

Thirsty Monk offers food flights and unique brews in the former Bazi Bierbrasserie space.

Movies & TV

Yellowstone Review: Ace Screenwriter Taylor Sheridan Tries TV

Angry Kevin Costner Is Fun! The Rest Is… Not as Fun

Ned LannamannJune 20, 2018 4:00 amJuly 12, 2022 3:42 pm

Angry Kevin Costner is fun! The rest is… not as fun.

Music

Chicago Reader Remembers Soundman Patrick Kenneally

Ned LannamannJune 19, 2018 9:51 amJuly 12, 2022 9:46 pm

Sarah Cooper via Chicago Reader Yesterday, the Chicago Reader published a warm and loving remembrance of soundman, musician, and recording engineer Pat Kenneally, who was an influential figure on the Chicago scene and also spent several years in Portland. While here, Kenneally opened the legendary Blackbird nightclub, which operated from 2001 to 2003. As those […]

Music

Light in the Attic’s Collection of Unreleased Zuider Zee Tracks Gives the Memphis Band Its Due

Ned LannamannJune 15, 2018 12:29 pmJuly 12, 2022 9:46 pm

There are plenty of good reasons why the Memphis-based rock band Zuider Zee never hit it big. Take their name, for example, which came from a Dutch bay that was dammed and turned into dry land, as mentioned in the children’s book Hans Brinker. (Not that the group’s earlier monikers—Thomas Edisun’s Electric Light Bulb Band; […]

Movies & TV

Tag Review: Four Grown Men Play Tag, Hit Each Other in Balls

Ah! Fine Cinema!

Ned LannamannJune 15, 2018 11:44 amJuly 12, 2022 9:46 pm

Ah! Fine cinema!

Books

Poe Ballantine’s Whirlaway Is a Weird, Wonderful Yarn About Horse Races, Record Collectors, and Telepathic Dogs

Ned LannamannJune 14, 2018 10:18 amJuly 12, 2022 9:46 pm

HAWTHORNE BOOKS | AUTHOR PHOTO BY DAVE JANETTA Nebraska-based author Poe Ballantine has given his new novel the subtitle The Great American Loony Bin, Horseplaying, & Record-Collecting Novel, but despite the book’s relative slimness, that doesn’t cover nearly all of it. Whirlaway, published by Portland’s Hawthorne Books, also manages to pack in multiple ghosts, a […]

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