I got a real case of the hangovers. I’m curing it with copious amounts of Maria Bamford commercials. Please join me. I think I’ll wear a glitter mustache to my next holiday party (musings of a person whose skull is attacking her soft squishy useless brain).
Drunk
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Fire At Interurban
flashalertportland.net A couple weeks ago, we reported on the soft opening of Interurban, the new bar collaboration between Kurt Huffman (Chefstable), John Gorham (Toro Bravo/Tasty & Sons), and Dan Hart (Prost) on Mississippi. If you didn’t take our advice and show up for the preview evenings, you may not have a chance…at least for a […]
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Interurban
Richard Thompson, The newest arrow in the Chefstable quiver, a bar called Interurban (named for the old trains that ran up and down Mississippi), is having a soft opening tonight. The collaboration between Eater’s “Empire Builder Of The Year” Kurt Huffman, John Gorham of Toro Bravo/Tasty & Sons, and Dan Hart of Prost are setting […]
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Pair Your Music with Booze
Marking his professional transition to full-time boozehound, we got this tip from former music editor-turned-bar owner Ezra Caraeff. Need a little help with what you’re drinking? Try Drinkify, which pairs music with a beverage. Punch in what you’re listening to, and the handy database comes up with the ideal pairing. A few kinks*, though: There’s […]
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Now Open: The Old Gold
Blogtown Nostalgists: remember that guy Ezra? Worked here for a couple years or so? Wrote about music and basketball? Something about a pug? Well, his sophomore effort—a Stryper–themed, Rasheed Wallace–themed bar called The Old Gold—dropped this weekend. If you’re still pissed about Ezra’s Floater or Dandy Warhols coverage, now’s your chance to tell him what […]
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Debut Dinner: The Bad Habit Room
Saraveza—Killingsworth’s great beer-bar and bottle shop—is showing off their new event space, The Bad Habit Room, with a dinner in honor of Stone Brewing’s 15th anniversary. These kind of dinners are usually the kind of thing I’d have to save for, but this four-course meal, with beer pairings included, will only run you $20: “11th […]
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Pabst Blue Ribbon Presents: Disco Patrick Swayze!
Speaking of PBR: Check out this utterly charming and bizarre 1979 commercial for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, starring a then unknown disco-dancing Patrick Swayze! (See, even then the hipsters loved PBR!) via
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Cart Confusion
If you read Michael Russell’s cocktail-cart piece in the Oregonian, or the speculation right here on Blogtown, and believed they meant that the OLCC had pulled the swizzle stick out of its collective ass loosened up its regulations, or that the Oregon Bartender’s Guild’s setup down at 12th and Hawthorne was anything like permanent, the […]
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The Guild Public House to Close
File this under “sads”: The Guild Public House, a bar started on East Burnside last year by former city council candidate Jesse Cornett, is closing down. And its closing party is on Cornett’s 36th birthday. Their press release about the closure is all upbeat, but I think it’s depressing. Blarg. A fter nearly a year […]
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Portland Cocktail Week (And Ticket Giveaway!)
“One drinks a right and proper amount; everyone else drinks either too much or not enough. One’s own drinking preferences exhibit refinement and sophistication; everyone else’s are suspect, as are everyone else’s snobberies, recipes, rules, brands, and styles.” -Daniel Handler, from his introduction to The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto. There are those among us that […]
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A Hollywood Vintage Halloween
I just returned from New York City, where on literally every block of Manhattan a seasonal “Ricky’s” Halloween costume shop has opened its doors to sell the masses life-sized replicas of Indiana Jones and $40 pairs of “creepy contact lenses.” Halloween planning may not have permeated the streets of Portland to such an extreme (seriously, […]
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Where To Pick Up Girls (in 1974)
This week I may have dampened the spirits of anyone who thought they’d found Portland’s hottest new place to pick up babes. Worry not, I present to you Eric Weber and M. Rob Frazier’s Where to Pick Up Girls! A Complete Guide to America’s Best Pick Up Spots. It “features over 900 action spots in […]