Why “stripping” trumps “education.”
Viva Las Vegas
“I Resolved to Become a Stripper or Kill Myself”
An excerpt from Portland stripper and writer Viva Las Vegas’ new
memoir, Magic Gardens.
Employee of the Week
Our favorite vet tech/mechanic.
I’M GOING OUT
The Auteur star Viva Las Vegas discusses some of her finest onscreen work.
Employee of The Week
Tommy Allen is a Horse Whisperer and Cowboy.
Beware the Tornado
Risking everything for Scared of Chaka.
Employee of The Week
Cordelia Elsewhere
Technical Trainer
Ameena Lacey
Goth girl makes good at Spartacus
Employee of the Week
Joshua Pangelinan Barista Bipartisan Café 7901 SE Stark Montavilla is one of Portland’s raddest and least-talked-about neighborhoods. Sandwiched between the car lots and Chinese lounges of 82nd Avenue and the pish-posh mansions of Mt. Tabor, it’s a like a paradoxical Oz that swarms with happy hookers, proper Patagonia types, entrepreneurial snowboarders, punk rock landlords, Oregon […]
Lulu Sharpe Alchemist
I first encountered Lulu’s Chocolates at a gallery event: a drop-dead gorgeous woman, exuding calm, proffered me a chunk of chocolate paste on a toothpick. When it hit my tongue, I melted, the earth opened up, my mind wandered out of my body for a few exquisite seconds, and when it came back, I better […]
Abby Sherrill
I don’t know duck about beer. If it’s not whiskey, it’s shite, you know? But when it was brought to my attention that there were only three female brewers in Portland, the microbrew capital of the universe, my attention was piqued and I decided to get to the bottom of it. Abby Sherrill has been […]
