I’ve been covering TBA as a journalist, in some capacity or another, for the last six years. In that time I have developed this survival kit. Wanna know what it contains? Hit the jump! 1. Laptop Computer for posting from a bar after having your brain ripped out by a performance. 2. A “smart phone” […]
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TBA 10 Opens With an “Okay. Whatever.”
I like Rufus Wainwright. I like how hard consonants don’t exist when he sings. I love the range of his voice, and his skill as a musician, songwriter, and composer. All of that being said, I have no idea what he has to do with Time Based Art. At last night’s TBA Festival opening performance […]
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This Week’s Mercury Food Section: Damn Your Clientele!
In this week’s Last Supper we head on over to the Pearl to dip our taste buds into the lukewarm menu of Irving Street Kitchen. I say “lukewarm” because while the simpler small plates are pretty damn good, the entrees falter, leaving the diner with an uneven experience and dashed expectations. But that’s not what […]
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Swine Before Pearlites
Irving Street Kitchen’s Better Half
Irving Street Kitchen’s clientele would be fatter if they were actually eating there.
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James Beard Foundation to Acknowledge Beard’s Birthplace
If you’ve been reading Blogtown for a while then you are familiar with my love of James Beard, and my dogged argument that his legacy belongs to Portland and not some schmancy-pants get-up in NYC. But all my cries of “James Beard wouldn’t be James Beard if he hadn’t grown up amidst the bounty of […]
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How to Solve Portland’s “Manliness Problem”
You know what? I’m getting sick of the whole “Portland doesn’t have any real men,” shtick. Even though, on some level, I get it. I could go on a whole diatribe that cross references Portland’s pseudo-European zeitgeist with the rise of Don Draper and then link the whole thing with the metaphorical emasculation of tight […]
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We’re Drinkin’ Beasties Too!
Recently the Internets went Kah-Razy after learning the New York municipal water supply was home to these little darlings: That’s an “invisible” crustacean called a copepod. It’s similar to a shrimp. Most chagrined by the news? New York’s kosher community for whom shellfish is forbidden. But guess which city has over a million thumbs and […]
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Bake to DOMINATE!
With State Fairs in full swing across the U.S., the nation’s beds are filled with nervous amateur bakers, picklers, and growers, tossing in their sleep with blue ribbon dreams. Will their peach pie take home top honors? Will their tomatoes be big and juicy enough to catch the judge’s eye? Will fate bring them a […]
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This Is What Pink Martini Must Taste Like
Or maybe it’s what their music tastes like? I’m not sure I understand it, but H50 has got the Pink Martini sushi roll ready for your consumption until September 30th: The Pink Martini Roll features hand harvested sea scallops, honey cured ruby red grapefruit, fresh celery buds, black peppercorn and cardamom dust. It’s third in […]
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Suck It, Teetotaler!
I was having an OK day until I found a Time magazine article on alcohol consumption… Suddenly, everything was brighter. Brace yourself, Blogtownies, for some of the best news you will receive all day. From the recent article: …a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that – for reasons that […]
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Today in Awesome Ideas
BC from Portlandfoodexchange.com So, let’s say I planted cucumbers in my garden (I didn’t because I was too lazy to garden this year, but for the sake of illustration…). Due to my amazing green thumb those cucumbers go bazonkers and I’ve got more than I could possibly pickle or eat in salads or use as […]
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This Week’s Mercury Food Section: The Celluloid Diner
Call them what you will—coffee shops, greasy spoons, truck stops—I’ll always know them as diners. And I love a diner; especially one as good as City State, the subject of this week’s Last Supper. While City State doesn’t have the neon and rough edges that I prefer in a diner, it’s doing its best to […]