Given Portland’s reputation as a passionate sports city, it comes as no surprise that the retail landscape echoes this enthusiasm. While the PTFC Authentics and Rip City Clothing Co. team shops located inside Providence Park and the Moda Center offer a reliable range of officially licensed Timbers, Thorns, and Trail Blazers gear, venturing out into […]
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Shopping Local for the Unusually Weird Gifts
Your friends aren’t like other friends, and therefore the usual style of gift giving (bottles of wine, socks, tins of popcorn) won’t work. That’s why we’ve put together a great list of great places where you’ll find gifts that are just as weird and unusual as the company you keep. Made in Milwaukie Okay, one […]
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One-Stop Shops: Holiday Gift Giving Made Easy
You are a busy person. At the same time, you are committed to shopping locally AND finding fun, unusual gifts. This is why securing the most prezzies in the shortest amount of time is vitally important. Well, fear not: Here’s a list of some great local stores where you can get all your unusual holiday […]
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Gifts for the Geek: Where to Shop for Comics, Games, and More
Portland has so many shops catering to the geeky among us that it feels like you can’t throw a D20 without hitting somewhere that sells comics, video games, or board games. (Do I recommend going outside and throwing a D20 in random directions just to see what you hit? Sure! I also recommend shouting “CRITICAL […]
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Get the Most Fashionable Gifts by Shopping Local
Buying stylish gifts for your loved ones is a tactile experience, one that can only be achieved by walking into one of the many great local boutiques and stores that Portland is famous for. There are too many to include here, but try these for starters. CLOTHING Wildfang This feminist-forward shop started with the belief that […]
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Shop Local: The Greatest Gift of All Is Beer
These bottle shops are the ideal places to find something for the beer lover on your list (even if it’s you).
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Shop Local: Giving the Gift of Cannabis
If you’re thinking about giving your friends cannabis this holiday season, YOU ARE THE BEST PERSON IN THE WORLD. And if you need help on where to search out these gifts, here are a few of our fave dispensaries, and good places to start your search. La Mota Oregon’s cannabis shops are quickly being gobbled […]
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Shop Local, Shop Quicker: Portland’s Top Shopping Districts
Wait… what are you still doing here? Are you kidding me? You’ve got SO much shopping to do, my friend! And yet, here you are! READING A NEWSPAPER?? Don’t just sit there! Get thee to any of the following Portland shopping districts to get all your holiday shopping done—tout de suite! Then you can go […]
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Portland’s Most Scrumptious Spots for Foodie Gifts
Not once in my five and a half years of living in Portland have I ever thought, “Gosh, I wish I knew where I could find some good food around here!” As every insufferable national trend piece will tell you, we’re a veritable foodie mecca. But not every Portland food specialty translates to an ideal […]
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Shop Local: Our Favorite Thrift Stores and Antique Malls
Hello! I’m a thrifty mothereffer! That’s why I spend a lot of time combing Portland’s best thrift stores and antique malls every year to score holiday gifts, as well as the clothes on my back, the shoes on my feet, and the Urkel posters on my wall. Here are a few of my faves…. House […]
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HUMP! 2019: A Guide for Your First Time
In the beginning… there was porn. And some of it was pretty awesome! But a lot of it, you know, wasn’t. Mainstream porn can be problematic in all sorts of ways—most notably that 90 percent of dirty movies are made for white dudes by white dudes. And why is there primarily only one body type […]
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Introducing SLAY—the New Eight-Minute HORROR Film Fest from the Makers of HUMP!
It’s official: The world loves HUMP!—America’s sweetest homemade-porn film festival, where entrants make short dirty movies for the chance to win impressive cash prizes! And now, the freaky minds behind HUMP! (and SPLIFF, our cannabis-themed film festival) have a brand-new and terrifyingly fun contest we know you’re going to love: SLAY—a film festival for fans […]