American Brewing Company Flying Monkey Dogfight Pale Ale, Hilliard’s Amber Ale, Epic Ales’ Solar Trans-Amplifier It’s easy to forget, when we have Oregon’s dearth of drinkables at our woozy fingertips, that there are other beers out there, beers that actually aren’t available in Oregon. Luckily, being on the border with Washington has some perks, and […]
Thomas Alexander Ross
Thomas Ross writes about art and booze, and edits fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for Tin House.
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Beer Cocktails Never Stop Being Cool (For Proof, Try The Rookery)
The other night I found myself spending my only night off all week at The Rookery, the upstairs bar at The Raven and Rose in the old Ladd Carriage House. The Rookery is in what used to be the hayloft, a hundred years and change ago. The space is similar to the R&R downstairs – […]
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Everyone Loves Blasphemy Comics
A few weeks ago, I mentioned how much I like Kinoko’s Gilgamesh comic. If you don’t remember (Why don’t you remember?), I praised that series’ blend of authenticity and off-the-wall insouciance. Kinoko’s translation worked its magic through playful irreverence, tickling but not skewering the source material. Jezebel, Portland comics artist Elijah Brubaker‘s account of the […]
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How To Spend Your Weekend (With Beer, Duh)
PDX Beer Week, unfortunately, is drawing to a close, but there are still plenty of events left. Last night at the release party for the Gentlemen’s Club collaboration between Widmer Bros and Miami’s Cigar City (on tap tonight at The Rookery Bar at Raven & Rose), I was reminded of just how awesome this city’s […]
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Find Your Pants, It’s Portland Beer Week
Here is a reason to brave the surveillance state (my current excuse for wearing pajamas all day) and leave your home: As mentioned earlier, Portland Beer Week starts today! There are roughly a million events, so check out the calendar and make up your own mind about where to go. Or if you’re hyperventilating from […]
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Seats Are Limited For Maggie Nelson This Friday, Get Yours Now!
This Friday, the 31st, Maggie Nelson is giving a reading and an interview at The Little Church, a neat but rather small venue on Alberta. Seats are limited, but also free! It’s a function of Tin House and the Portland State MFA Creative Writing program, who collaborate on a graduate seminar every year, focusing on […]
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Look at These Huge Cans!
Haha, grow up, they are actual metal cans. But seriously, from the New Age Old Questions file: “Why are these cans so tall?” Have you seen these tallboy giant cans from Oskar Blues? Dale’s Pale Ale and Mama’s Little Yella Pils in 19oz cans that are too tall for your post-ironic slap-on can koozie? WHY […]
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Unlikeable Smug Bastard to Become Likeable Smug Bastard
This is my favorite miscasting news ever: Vincent Kartheiser, best known for playing upright puddle of unlovable slime Pete Campbell on Mad Men, is going to play Mr. Motherfucking Darcy in a new stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The production is directed by Joe Dowling and adapted by Simon Reade and will […]
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My Life, The Phrase “That’s Not Canon” To Lose All Meaning
So. This is insane. Amazon, already the place just about anybody can “publish” a “book” for “people” to “read,” is about to launch a system for legally publishing fan fiction. It’s called Kindle Worlds. Amazon is paying the owners of some popular material (Alloy Entertainment, so far, seems to be the only group biting) for […]
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The Truly Epic Epic of Gilgamesh
If you’ve been following local comics artist Kinoko’s Epic of Gilgamesh, the second issue of which was released at Stumptown Comics Fest this year, you know it’s a cheeky, breezy retelling of the classic tale, told in superflattishly simple but vibrant and recognizably Mesopotamian cartoons. If you haven’t been following, I’ll try to explain: It’s […]
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I Will Have Like 20,000 More Pints of Bu Weisse, Please
By now, Portland beer geeks have seen the first few beers from De Garde Brewing come and—often pretty quickly—go. The brand new Tillamook wild-fermentation brewery released two beers at various beer bars around the city, and those lucky enough to try them have apparently been impressed. Or at least thirsty. That success doesn’t appear to […]
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Once You See How the Burger’s Made…
The cast of Bob’s Burgers came through town Friday night on a five-stop tour of the US. The show was at a packed and hot-as-hell Crystal Ballroom. John Benjamin and Eugene Mirman start the show by riffing on Portland for a little while. Best line is from Mirman, about how everyone in Portland is required […]