My first visit to Interurban (4057 N Mississippi St) left a generally good impression of the place. It wasn’t too crowded, they had some good music going, and the bartender introduced me to a few new kinds of whiskey based on the shot of Woodford Reserve that I ordered. Everything you want in a bar […]
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How Many IPAs Does it Take to Screw in a Lightbulb?
Just think—by last call on Friday, you could easily be an expert on India Pale Ale. Roscoe’s (8105 SE Stark St.) is hosting their 3rd annual IPA summit for which they will have 15 different varieties of the beverage on tap. There’s no faster way to train those taste buds to recognize subtleties in flavor […]
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City’s Real Goal in Food Cart Booze Fight? Getting Salem to Override OLCC
Hall Monitor this week is all about the ongoing contretemps over the Oregon Liquor Control Commission’s decision to give a full-on liquor license to the Cartlandia food cart pod out on SE 82nd—the first in the state. Emails (pdf) that landed in my hands today, through a public records request, shed more light on the […]
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OLCC Approves First Food Cart Liquor License; Portland Plots Legal Action
illustration by wilder Schmaltz Indelicately setting aside Portland City Council’s strenuous objections and legal threats, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission today voted to give an annual liquor license to the Cartlandia food cart pod over on SE 82nd Avenue—a decision that marks an exciting first for Oregon. And the OLCC’s unanimous decision has city hall, […]
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I Have No Idea What to Title This Blog Post Other Than “What the Fuck?”
Admittedly I don’t watch a lot of Fox News. Let me rephrase that… I don’t watch ANY Fox News unless it’s cut down into digestible tidbits on the YouTube. Maybe that’s why I’ve never seen or heard of this Fox News early morning show called Red Eye. Apparently it’s some sort of comedy roundtable that […]
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The First Annual Malt Ball!
Q. What happens when you mix beer and music? A: Watered down versions of bothB: BeermusicC: The Portland Mercury and the Oregon Brewers Guild’s First Annual Malt Ball! If you answered A or B, you are wrong (and if you answered B, that is not even a word, brainiac). But if you answered C, not […]
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ChocoVine: Because… Why?
I am inured to the heartbreak that sets in upon seeing the racks of Night Train, Thunderbird, and Cisco at my local bodega. This recently-discovered product set off a whole different sort of tracheal sympathy-spasm, though: No Credit Wanted ChocoVine, “For the Purist.” ChocoVine. A great alternative to having nine dollars, this beverage—which is billed […]
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Socially Responsible Schmoozing
This nonprofit’s got it figured out: Green Drinks (a “volunteer-driven group created to connect and grow Portland’s environmental community”) hosts short lectures at classy joints around town, luring in potential activists to learn about saving the planet while they get their drink on. This month’s conscientious cocktail party will be Tuesday, March 6, from 6:30 […]
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It’s Hard Being Mr. Happiness – Vodka Solicitation
Nearly ninety percent of running the Food column for the Mercury is fielding vendor offers for free vodka. What this says about the last fellow I shall not say, but it would explain the wealth of profanity and old band names scribbled on the underside of the desk. Chris Onstad Exclusiv Vodca. This onerous situation […]
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City Fires Another Shot at Food Cart’s Liquor License Application
illustration by wilder Schmaltz The Oregon Liquor Control Commission seems poised to kindly overlook the Portland City Council’s last-second bid to stop the Cartlandia pod on SE 82nd Avenue from receiving the state’s first-ever annual liquor license for a food cart—so now city officials plan to start shouting even more loudly. A resolution headed before […]
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Beer! Bands! Introducing the First Ever Malt Ball!
click to zoom You like music. You like beer. So we’re bringing the two together—in a way that seems perfectly obvious, but hasn’t really ever been done successfully before. The first annual Malt Ball is coming on Saturday, March 24, and it’s going to be fantastic—Portland’s very first beer festival that actually has GOOD music. […]
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Red Fang and the Thermals to Play a Free Show for Service Industry Workers!
Are you in the service industry? Do you have your OLCC Servers card or Oregon Food Handlers card? Do you like to have an insanely good time with fantastic, loud music—for totally free? Then you, my friend, are in luck. PBR and the Portland Mercury are teaming up to bring you a FREE show at […]