PAIGE MEHRER At a lecture in Portland last October, Isabel Wilkerson—the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who wrote about the great migration of Black Americans from the south to the north—said that when people leave a place, it’s often a referendum on the very place they leave. So then what does it mean when I, and other […]
Zahir Janmohamed
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How Portland Is Driving Away New Residents of Color
The City Wasn’t Giving Me What I Needed—Which Is Why I Left
Portland isn’t taking care of their people of color—so I left.
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Storytelling, Now with Ice Cream
Jared Goodman’s Morgan St. Theater Brings the Two Together
Jared Goodman’s Morgan St. Theater brings the two together.
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The Dodo Takes Flight
Shyam Dausoa’s Chez Dodo Empire Expands to Airport
Shyam Dausoa’s Chez Dodo empire expands to the airport.
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Your Guide to Portland’s Best Chai
ZAHIR JANMOHAMED The secret to making the perfect cup of chai, a roadside vendor in India once told me, is to strain the tea with a used men’s undershirt. The ribs on the fabric, he explained, create the perfect filter—especially if the undershirt has been broken in due to many wears. I nodded in agreement […]
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Drink This!
On the Hunt for Portland’s Best Chai
On the hunt for Portland’s best chai.
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A Visit to Portland’s “Shawarma Square”
ZAHIR JANMOHAMED MANY YEARS AGO, when I was backpacking across the Middle East, I discovered there was a subject that divided its citizens. This time it wasn’t about religion, but rather the profoundly bitter and deep-seated debate over who makes the best shawarma. Even the spelling of shawarma can elicit confrontation, as the parody website […]
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A Visit to Shawarma Square
A Single City Block in SW Portland Offers 10 Shawarma Food Carts
A visit to Shawarma Square.