Double Mountain Brewery‘s new “Killer” fresh hop series is made with over eight pounds of fresh Willamette Valley hops per barrel. Double Mountain Brewery It’s the most wonderful time of the year for beer lovers: fresh hop season! Fresh hop beers are made from hops processed no more than 24 hours after being harvested, resulting […]
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Your Guide to Fall 2020 Film Festivals in the Pacific Northwest and Beyond
Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) stars as a housewife on the run in Julia Hart’s I’m Your Woman, screening online via the Chicago International Film Festival and LA’s AFI Fest. Courtesy of Amazon Studios Movie theaters will sadly miss out on this year’s film festival season, but organizers in the Northwest and around the […]
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The 24 Best Things to Do in Portland This Week: September 21-24, 2020
Philly-based artist Jaamil Olawale Kosoko uses his knowledge of Black queer theory in his contemporary dance piece American Chameleon: The Living Installments, which screens at PICA tonight as part of the Time Based Art Festival. Courtesy of PICA Portland is looking and feeling slightly less apocalyptic thanks to the non-smoky skies, but the ongoing pandemic […]
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This Week in Portland Food News: Japanese Food, Mochi Doughuts, and More!
The one-week-old Japanese-inspired restaurant Nanban‘s menu includes Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki with house-smoked pork belly bacon, yakisoba, and a house okonomiyaki sauce. Nanban via Facebook Welcome to a new edition of Portland food news! We’ve gathered all the latest happenings in the food scene, including a new Pearl District winery, a drool-worthy smash burger destination, a mochi […]
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The Best Movies to Stream in Portland This Weekend: September 17-20, 2020
You might not be able to breathe in fresh PNW air right now, but you can watch Alone, a woodsy survival story about a road trip to rural Oregon gone awry. Magnet Releasing Another weekend of smoggy isolation is met with some good news in the form of sexy short films (an encore of the […]
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Where to Celebrate Rosh Hashanah 2020 in Portland
Bring sweetness into your new year this Rosh Hashanah with baked goods from Baker & Spice. Baker & Spice via Instagram Religious or not, Rosh Hashanah is as good an opportunity as any to 1) experience fun Jewish cultural traditions and 2) get a fresh start on this dumpster fire of a year. In addition […]
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The 30 Best Things to Do in Portland This Week: September 14-17, 2020
The Portland Latin American Film Festival kicks off online this Thursday with César Díaz’s 2019 Cannes Film Festival Camera d’Or-winning debut Our Mothers, set in the aftermath of Guatemala’s civil war. It’s still hazy out there, folks. Stay inside if you can and give yourself a break from *gestures everywhere* by checking out the Portland […]
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The Best Movies and Shows to Stream in Portland This Weekend: September 10-13, 2020
Thin Skin, a new film by our sister site The Stranger‘s own Charles Mudede, is screening this Saturday as part of the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time Based Art Festival. If the ongoing amalgam of bad news (helmed at the moment by wildfire smoke worsening the air quality throughout the state) has you searching […]
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The 35 Best Things to Do in Portland This Week: September 8-10, 2020
The 18th annual Filmed by Bike festival, which highlights indie bicycle films from around the world, kicks off this Thursday on YouTube. Filmed by Bike via Facebook The last three-day weekend of summer has passed, but on the bright side, Friday will arrive one day sooner than usual. Here are the best socially distant events […]
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The Best Movies and Shows to Watch in Portland This Weekend: Sept 3–6, 2020
Pepe, the world’s most controversial frog, is the subject of a new documentary out this weekend, Feels Good Man. Movie theaters are still closed for the most part, but you can get close to that big-screen experience with drive-in screenings of classics like The Lost Boys, or you can cue up movies at home available […]
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The 20 Best September 2020 Events in Portland
Catch a livestreamed performance of LA-based cumbia artist San Cha’s amazing narrative album La Luz De La Esperanza on September 25 as part of the Time Based Art Festival. Ivan Dario It’s September in Portland and everywhere! Are you clutching your Tevas for dear life or knitting yourself a sweater and swan-diving into fall? Either […]
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The Best Things to Do in Portland This Week: Aug 24-27, 2020
The Chicks join Gloria Steinem, Letitia James, Lily Tomlin, and many more at the Women Take the Stage concert celebrating the 19th Amendment. The Chicks via Facebook And like that, the last week of August is here. September is on the horizon, fall is (Probably? Maybe? Kinda?) coming soon, and before you know it, we’ll […]