Portland’s best subterranean bars for the sun-phobic.
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Subterranean Bars for the Sun-Phobic.
Hate the Sun? Drunk? Have We Got the List for You!
Thomas Alexander Ross
Thomas Ross writes about art and booze, and edits fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for Tin House.
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Portland’s Top Boozy Smoothies
Our Picks of the City’s Best Alcoholic Slushies
Our picks of the city’s best alcoholic slushies.
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Preaching to the Choir at Bible Club
Michelle Mitchell I KEEP MAKING EXCUSES for Bible Club. Whenever I bring up the new cocktail bar, I feel obligated to say, “It’s speakeasy-themed—but not a speakeasy.” Yet my arguments are weak against the evidence: The bar is in an old house (actually, it was once a coffee roaster), it has no sign (except for […]
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Pizza Week Preview: Straight From New York Belmont’s “The Spanish Bomb”
Thomas Ross I need to confess something before Pizza Week even starts: I’m a white pie guy. I know it isn’t right, but I can’t help it—I’m just not that into tomatoey red sauce. You know what I like, though? Spanish food. Straight From New York gets me. How have I never had pizza with […]
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Pizza Week Preview: Pizza A Go-Go’s “The Other Side”
Pizza A Go-Go It’s hard to imagine that what’s now being called “the Canyon”—the lines of newly developed condos along the Vancouver/Williams corridor in North Portland—was once a red zone for the major pizza delivery chains, with Dominos and Pizza Hut refusing to insure cars or drivers in the area. Fifteen years ago, Pizza A […]
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Haunted Pain and J-Horror Creepiness in Imago Theatre’s The Lady Aoi
The classic play is the story of Aoi (Gwendolyn Duffy), a woman haunted by an evil spirit. John Rudoff Without getting into the nitty-gritty history of Noh theater in Japan, the way it’s been practiced over the last few centuries—excruciatingly subtle, barely vocalized, pared down to a series of exaggerated gestures—has made classic Noh plays […]
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The Lady Aoi‘s Ghost of a Libido
Imago Theatre Casts Stylized Shadows on Yukio Mishima’s Psychosexual Classic
Imago Theatre casts stylized shadows on this psychosexual classic.
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Screw Green Beer! St. Patrick’s Day Deserves Real Irish Whiskey
GINGER FLANDERS: “Think you can Irish up this coffee for me?” Ned Flanders: “Whoops, watch the swears, honeybear. We don’t use the I word in this house.” In American English, “Irish” is synonymous for “drunk.” For better or worse, drinking is what we associate with the Irish and St. Patrick’s Day, along with the color […]
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A Boozy St. Patrick’s Day Primer
Prepare for the Holiday with Irish Whiskey 101
Prepare for the holiday with this Irish whiskey 101.
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Post5 Theatre’s Got the Riveting Tobias Andersen—and a Better King Lear Adaptation Than Fuller House!
At nearly 80, and after a 50-plus-year career in regional theater and Hollywood, Tobias Andersen is an age-appropriate mad king. Post One of the biggest obstacles to Shakespeare is the ubiquity of his work. Even if we don’t think we know the plays, we know them—ever since we first saw The Lion King. A play […]
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Slim’s: A 105-Year History and Some of Portland’s Best Bar Food
Come in a Suit or Covered in Paint—the St. Johns Haunt Welcomes All
Come in a suit or covered in paint—the St. Johns haunt welcomes all.