The Community Seafood Initiative, Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center, and Oregon fishers have combined forces to create Pacific Fish Trax, a system that allows seafood consumers to truly get in touch with their fish. Under the system, shoppers select, say, an albacore tuna fillet from a freezer attached to a computerized kiosk. Scanning […]
Patrick Alan Coleman
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Happy Hour! Ahoy!
Finally! A Guidebook for the Frugal Culinary Explorer
There’s no reason not to own the Portland Happy Hour Guidebook. Period.
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Go! Fish!
A Delicious Champion of the World’s Oceans
Eating sustainably at Bamboo Sushi is a lesson in green delight.
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Watcha’ Doin’ at 5 pm?
It’s cold out there in the world. I don’t need to reiterate the constant litany of reasons why you feel the need to plod into your local drinkery every night for the comforting embrace of intoxication and a kind word from the bartender. Things are fucking grim. The guys from House Spirits feel your pain. […]
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Animals Riding Stuff Tuesday!
So you’ve seen a monkey riding a bicycle, and a monkey riding a dog, but have you ever seen a dog riding a bicycle? Look how this dalmatian mounts his ride with ease and pride. My only concern is that it he isn’t wearing a helmet. BTW, based on my limited Japanese language skills, I […]
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Watchmen Watch!
Good Grief A scene from the upcoming Watchmen movie was released on the internet today (via the Sun). The clip is primarily concerned with Night Owl II (Patrick Wilson) and the Silk Specter II (Malin Akerman), who are doing what they can to release a passel of people from a burning building. After hearing Akerman’s […]
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Ping Rush!
It’s been in the works for far too long with a steady, deafening buzz (from this publication amongst many others): Andy Ricker’s new NW eatery, Ping, opens officially tonight at 4pm. If Ping turns out to be anything like Ricker’s Southeast Portland Thai wonderland, Pok Pok, then Portlanders should be in for a treat. My […]
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What’s Next? A Tax On Being Happy?
That 12 oz. beer you’re drinking (I know what’s really in that coffee cup), may wind up costing you an extra 15 cents if Ben Cannon, D-Portland, has his way and manages to pass House Bill 2461. The proposed bill increases Oregon’s Beer Tax 1,800 percent: from $2.60 per 31 gallon barrel of beer to […]
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When God Closes a Cart, She Gives Us Another Tart
Big news in Sweetsville over the weekend is that the much loved Sugar Cube cart will no longer be in operation. But before you go ballistic and start a sugar riot, know that Kir Jensen, the sweetness behind the Sugar Cube’s sweetness, has joined the team of tarts over at Two Tarts Bakery (making it […]
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George Lucas: Guilty!!!!
Complete with a catchy tune called George Lucas Raped My Childhood, the teaser trailer for the film The People vs George Lucas hit the intertubes earlier this week. The evidence against Lucas seems to be based almost entirely on Jar Jar Binks. I doubt it’s enough to convict him. What the hell is his sentence […]
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Chocolates and Boozy Goodness
Jeff McCarthy, pastry chef from Ten-01, and House Spirits distillery have teamed up to release a line of booze filled chocolates. The chocolates will be given away free with an alcohol purchase from their Apothecary, 2025 SE 7th ave, tomorrow between 11 am and 4 pm. You know, a bottle of Marteau absinthe and some […]
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In Honor of Darwin
It’s time to revisit the Darwin Awards. Though often debunked as urban legends, the Darwin Awards have for years been a compendium of the unlikely, strange, and idiotic ways individuals have inadvertently offed themselves. The Darwin Award itself is given in recognition of “those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.” Is […]