Beards! Girls! Taking over the North Park Blocks in the Pearl District this Friday the 16th until Sunday the 18th, The Portland International Beer Fest is an annual event much anticipated for it’s rare and exotic brews. Like International beer styles? Like beards? Like pretty girls who like beer? PIB is just right for you. […]
Patrick Alan Coleman
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PDX Pod Invasion
Food Carts Go Pod Wild in Portland’s Eastside
Portland’s food carts go pod wild in the Eastside.
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Snap Judgment: Bieber Bar Bar
[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 it right all […]
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Mmmmm. Litigation.
Excerpt of a love letter from the Center for Science in the Public Interest to Ronald and his pals at McDonalds: By advertising that Happy Meals include toys, McDonald’s unfairly and deceptively markets directly to children. When McDonald’s bombards children with advertisements or other marketing for Happy Meals with toys, many children will pester their […]
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31 Beers Discussion Group – Commence!
Welcome to Blogtown’s Oregon Craft Beer Month 31 Beer Discussion Group. Die-hard beer drinkers across the state have committed to drink 31 unique craft brews in the month of July, and here at the Mercury we’ll be discussing what we drank, what we liked, what we didn’t like, and what we’re looking forward to. Join […]
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Sandwich and Sickle
Trust in the People’s Sandwich of Portland
Benevolent dictators or sandwich revolutionaries, the People’s Sandwich of Portland is all that and a bag of chips.
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Portland Food & Drink & ROY
Of all those few food people who have earned my respect in this town, the mysterious Food Dude is at the top. He’s been in the game a long time and he’s used his space to create a resource for seriously thorough and even-keeled restaurant criticism. So when he names a Restaurant of the Year […]
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Comment to Win the Unofficial Twilight Cookbook!
At 17 years old I’d discovered my kitchen. Actually that isn’t exactly true. I’d discovered my kitchen during 5th grade when I took a mandatory Home Ec. class and practiced the magic of omelets and pigs in a blanket. Unfortunately, you can only pair so many pigs with blankets and omelet chasers before your family […]
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Chinatown Uwajimaya More and More Likely
Urban Works Real Estate blog Portland Urban broke news last Friday that popular Asian Food emporium Uwajimaya has made an agreement with Sockeye Development, in the form of a letter of intent, to locate a new store in block 33 of Old Town/Chinatown at NW 5th and Davis. The post notes that a letter of […]
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Hot Dogs, an Appreciation: Part 6
Hot Dog + Betty White = Fireworks God bless Betty White. God bless hot dogs. God bless America.
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Hot Dogs, an Appreciation: Part 5
The Country Music Holster Hot Dog There is truly nothing more American than Buck Owen’s hot dog stand lady love.
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Hot Dogs, an Appreciation: Part 4
Dog Shops, Mapped One of the best things about hot dogs is how insanely easy they are to make. However, there are times when a backyard hot dog plucked plump and sizzling from your grill just isn’t going to do. There are times when a hot dog is required RIGHT FUCKIN NOW! Thankfully there are […]