All photos by Katie Summer. The fourth annual Malt Ball took place on February 28 at the Wonder Ballroom and was a splendid time for all. A dozen excellent Portland bands and 19 just-as-excellent Oregon brewers converged for a festival that brought out the best of both thriving scenes. While you cannot drink or listen […]
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Happy Hour… A Professional’s Guide: Shelley McLendon and Bri Pruett
Have you checked out the Mercury‘s massive Happy Hour guide on the streets this week? There are almost 80 suggestions of great places to eat and drink on the cheap—but we also asked many of Portland’s food and entertainment industry professionals to weigh in with their favorites, which we’ll be sharing with you from now […]
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Happy Hour… A Professional’s Guide: Gary Okazaki
Have you checked out the Mercury‘s massive Happy Hour guide on the streets this week? There are almost 80 suggestions of great places to eat and drink on the cheap—but we also asked many of Portland’s food and entertainment industry professionals to weigh in with their favorites, which we’ll be sharing with you from now […]
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Happy Hour… A Professional’s Guide: Kate Monroe and Ezra Johnson-Greenough
Have you checked out the Mercury‘s massive Happy Hour guide on the streets this week? There are almost 80 suggestions of great places to eat and drink on the cheap—but we also asked many of Portland’s food and entertainment industry professionals to weigh in with their favorites, which we’ll be sharing with you from now […]
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Happy Hour… a Professional’s Guide: Doug Weiler and Danny McGeough
Have you checked out the Mercury‘s massive Happy Hour guide on the streets this week? There are almost 80 suggestions of great places to eat and drink on the cheap—but we also asked many of Portland’s food and entertainment industry professionals to weigh in with their favorites, which we’ll be sharing with you from now […]
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Happy Hours… A Professional’s Guide: Damian Magista
Have you checked out the Mercury‘s massive Happy Hour guide on the streets this week? There are almost 80 suggestions of great places to eat and drink on the cheap—but we also asked many of Portland’s food and entertainment industry professionals to weigh in with their favorites, which we’ll be sharing with you from now […]
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Toast 2015: Best in Show
If anyone tried all the spirits on offer at Toast on Saturday they presumably had the next day blocked out to lie in the dark with a wet towel on their forehead. There was a lot of booze. It was good to see signs of the spirit industry thriving in Oregon, though there was some […]
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Here’s What’s Really Happening to the Sandy Hut
Katie Summer The Sandy Hut is not dead. News of the sale of the inner Northeast Portland dive bar—which temporarily closed its doors on March 1—broke earlier this week, with a report appearing at Willamette Week before the sale was finalized. That deal did go through to completion on Tuesday, and today, the new owners, […]
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Toast 2015: Sign Up Before it Sells Out
The annual celebration of artisan spirits, Toast, returns next week, featuring 120 spirits from across the Pacific Northwest, the US, and from around the globe. Expect whiskey, rum, gin, vodka, tequila, brandy, liqueurs and absinthe and anything else in between; Portland will be well represented by the likes of Aria, Bull Run, Aviation and Stone […]
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Don’t Miss Out! Get Your Tix for This Saturday’s Malt Ball… NOW!
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Hot Prospects
Prospect, a recently-opened bottle shop/bar on NE Killingsworth, builds on the template that co-owner Adams Hobbs successfully established with his other premises, 1856. Here, there is more space for tables and outdoor seating (which has already proved popular during our recent ‘heat wave’), making for a relaxed neighborhood spot to watch the world go by […]