Today marks the beginning of Oregon Craft Beer Month, the best possible excuse to drink local beer you’ve ever been given. You may remember last year around this time I gave up spirits and dedicated myself to drinking nothing but Oregon craft brew for the entire month of July. I succeeded in that goal and […]
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More Foodie Sex Code
One of my favorite things to write in this week’s Mercury Food Issue was the foodie sex code. The premise is that you can learn about how a person will be between the sheets based on the restaurant they choose in various situations. It’s a complete load of bullshit, of course (or is it?), but […]
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Portland: Drunk Driving Enabler?
Writing on Grist, Jonathan Hiskes questions the common practice of “mandatory sprawl,” when cities require an excessive number of surface parking spaces for businesses. Particularly: why are bars required to provide parking? This seems to condone, or at least enable, drunk driving. If it were tougher to find parking around a bar, patrons would be […]
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What to Drink at This Year’s North American Organic Brewers Festival
The North American Organic Brewers Festival (NAOBF) kicked off yesterday at Overlook Park, and it remains one of the most pleasant annual beer festivals simply due to the fantastic setting. The fest is also on the smaller and more welcoming side, with only a handful of the more popular beers creating long, lingering lines—a markedly […]
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NAOBF Starts Today
In fact, when I left Overlook Park today at 1pm the North American Organic Beer Festival was already in full swing. A tight funk band was rocking it, the sun was out, and more than 50 organic beers and ciders were flowing. Why an organic beer fest? The point of the whole thing is to […]
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Yee Haw! A New Bar Patio in Southeast
While North (5008 SE Division) treats me kind indeed, I do not much care for sitting on their Plaid Pantry-facing “sidewalk patio.” It’s noisy and the view is terrible. (But I love you guys! Happy Birthday on Thursday! Free bands and fun.). So I’m itching like a cowgirl with a poison-ivy rash to get my […]
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So This Probably Didn’t Need to Exist…
Ah, but it exists all the same. Showing the same display of judgment and artistic integrity that gave the world this album cover, Whitesnake has now released Whitesnake Zinfandel (it’s not a white zinfandel, although the name is confusing). Says Mr. David Coverdale: “It’s a bodacious, cheeky little wine, filled to the brim with the […]
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When Booze is Beautiful
This is crystallized whiskey as seen through a standard microscope at 1,000x magnification. It’s a product of a company called Bevshots, which sells prints of magnified booze and cocktails. I always knew my drunk was just as beautiful on a microscopic level. Buy a print of your Dad’s favorite beverage for father’s day! I bet […]
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We Are Doomed
That’s honestly the only conclusion I could reach after looking at this list of Worst Beverages in America, which includes the following: Worst Water – Snapple Agave Melon Antioxidant Water Sugar Equivalent: 2 Good Humor Chocolate Éclair Bars Okay. One thing: THAT’S NOT WATER! Water does not taste like agave sweetened melon. It does not […]
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Today’s “Guess the News Story Based on the Incomprehensible and Vague Photo Illustration” Game
Hey you clever Blogtownies! Can you guess the headline of the story that accompanies the following photo illustration? Click here for the answer!
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Lindsay Lohan and the Lessons of SCRAM
That thing around Ms. Lohan’s ankle is a Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor, which works by measuring alcohol content in the wearer’s perspiration. As you may have heard, Lohan’s SCRAM anklet went off during a post-MTV Awards party on Sunday, instigating a new li’l shitstorm of revoked-then-repaid bail and dramatic protestations from the Camp Lohan, […]