The Half and Half café closes after a decade of excellent coffee, delicious food, and plenty of quirk.
Patrick Alan Coleman
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Run Run Run, JUMP!
Remember when you were a kid and you just liked jumping off of shit? It didn’t matter if you were jumping from a high step or a tree limb—you just enjoyed the launch. It was even better if you had a running start, and completely awesome if you didn’t hurt yourself when you landed. Parkour […]
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Can Local Food Be Frugal?
The biggest complaint I hear from contrarians about buying healthy local food from the farmers market is that it sure as hell ain’t cheap. If you’d like to get into the locavore mood but are cash deficient, like so many of us these days, you might want to check out a FREE event taking place […]
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Perfect Stoner Storm
Here’s a confession: I no longer smoke the weed. I don’t have anything against it of course, but me and getting stoned just gradually stopped seeing eye to eye. The problem is paranoia. Major paranoia. It’s just not fun anymore. If I smoke even the weensiest puff of marijuana, chances are I’ll be spending the […]
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Understanding Blogtownies: Part 89
It seems like every time the journal of Psychological Science releases a study, I come closer to understanding those who frequent this here internet community we like to call Blogtown: Instantly picking up takeaway burgers and fries also tends to trigger cravings for more impractical things like instant happiness, and reduces the impulse to save […]
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Joel Salatin: Lunatic Farmer
If you give a shit about food—what’s in it, how it’s produced and the possibility that there’s a better way (with potential to save our asses)—you need to go see one of the two Joel Salatin lectures in Portland tonight and tomorrow. You may remember Salatin from the tales of his Polyface Farms chronicled in […]
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Food Paparazzi: Just as Bad as the Real Thing?
Hey! Foie Terrine! Over here! Hey! You were enjoying a meal out with a friend. The pleasant atmosphere had relaxed you, the food was very good, and the conversation engaging. Then: A few minutes later, as a server walked past with a plate of foie gras terrine, 18 food bloggers aimed their cameras and prepared […]
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Overheard in the Mercury Offices
“I would totally have sex with a man for a double cheeseburger… You gotta take what you can get in this world.” Prompted from this random screen shot (via):
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Eating for a Good Cause
There are several upcoming benefits of note that will allow you to do something more constructive with your pie-hole than mouthing-off about how awesome the next Tron movie is going to be. And low and behold, you can start right away! Why not hit the jump for some great benefits that you can attend… Tonight… […]
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This Week’s Mercury Food Section: How to Eat Pizza
This week’s Last Supper focuses, in part, on one particularly aromatic pizza from Lovely’s Fifty Fifty. It was a bit of a revelation for me. Until that dinner at Lovely’s Fifty Fifty, I’d never found a really good justification for eating pizza with the hands, aside from that being the way it was done in […]
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Twitter Can Teach Us So Much
I was slightly doubtful about yesterday’s news that the Library of Congress would be archiving every tweet ever tweeted. My reluctance came from the assertion that the tweets could be useful for academic research. Today, Stupid Fight proved me wrong. The website scans the @ replies to two specific Twitter users for “stupidity indicators” and […]
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BREAKING: Half and Half to Close in Downtown Portland
Heisler and Rosenberg in front of Half and Half After a ten year run, the quirky downtown cafe Half and Half [923 SW Oak] has been sold and will close on April 30th. In a interview with the Mercury, owners Robin Rosenberg and Jeff Heisler noted it was simply time to move on, but admitted […]