Today is National Coffee Day, and for many people that also means it’s National Cigarette Day. Honestly, one of the things I’ve missed most about giving up smoking is standing outside the office on a day like today with a cup of coffee in one hand and a cancer-stick in the other. You know, just […]
Patrick Alan Coleman
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Call Me Skelegoat…
Lately people have been asking me, “PAC, what was it like working at the Mercury for the last couple years?” You know, it’s funny, when I first started I thought every day would be a drunken party packed with pranks and shenanigans. The fact is, having Wm. Steven Humphrey snort a line of cocaine off […]
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Drag, Asian Cuisine, and You
Man, sometimes you’ve got to give it up to your media frenemies for scoring the awesome “get”. That’s why I’m tipping my porkpie to Eater PDX for this: From Eater PDX That’s a photo from Oasisba, where all the servers are drag queens and all of the food is Asian cuisine. Hit it, Eater: The […]
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This Week’s Mercury Food Section: The Road to Tacoville
I know many of you have had enough of my taco madness. In fact, you probably had enough of it after the first Tacoville series last summer. Did I listen? No. Callously, I pushed forward in my explorations. Selfishly, I sought asada. Tacos are a cruel mistress, my friends, and I am their willing slave. […]
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Whole Foods Does Good
Whole Foods and I haven’t always seen eye to eye. In fact, I still refuse to shop in their stores when I have a better, locally-owned option. But it’s not their fault, that’s just the kind of locavore jerk (locajerk) I am. With that mild reproach out of the way, I feel much better talking […]
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Let ‘er Buck!
48 Nonstop Hours at the Pendleton Round-Up
Forty-eight hours at the Pendleton Round-Up. Featuring: 1,500 horses, 900 pounds of ham, four fighter jets, and one beer spilled on a baby.
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Travels in Tacoville
The 2010 Portland Mercury Tacoville Awards
The end of summer brings both rain and the second annual Tacoville Awards.
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Snap Judgment: Little Big Burger
From Eater PDX [Welcome to Snap Judgment, a new regular Blogtown feature wherein I’ll be dropping by places both old and just opened for a one-dish fly-by, and developing an opinion based on that singular experience. Basically, it’s the complete opposite of what I do each week for Last Supper. I don’t expect to get […]
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Lutz Tavern to Close
Food Dude breaks the news that the Lutz Tavern will be closing its doors on September 30th. This website confirms the news. I feel a huge pang of sadness for Ray Davis. Go buy him a beer, wont you? Don’t know him? I had the pleasure of speaking with him for our spring Food and […]
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Camp Drunken Lincoln
You know how when you were a kid, the only drunk people at camp were the counselors, or maybe the creepy grounds keeper who smelled like he’d been slurping turpentine while sharpening his machete? Well, Lincoln wants to change all that by creating a boozy bar camp where you get to have all the fun. […]
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This Is What the Clash Must Taste Like
Above is the label for Upright Brewing’s latest. Not only is it nameless, but it’s also “style-less” according to Upright (who’d rather you make up your own mind about where it sits in the beer spectrum). And, yes, that is the Clash. While it doesn’t sound as if brewer Alex Ganum is looking to make […]