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Holiday Guide 2024 🎅

Featuring all the advice, gift-giving ideas, and frivolity you need to survive the holiday season. (Oh yeah… and SNACKS.)
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Zen and the Art of Holiday Pet Sitting

I’m permanently estranged from my family.
 Here’s what cats and dogs have taught me.
Avatar photo Lindsay Costello

  [Editor’s note: Read all our holly jolly HOLIDAY GUIDE articles here. Looking for a print copy? Good! You can find it in more than 500 spots across Portland with this handy map!]   From etymonline.com: estrange (v.) late 15c., from French estrangier “to alienate,” from Vulgar Latin *extraneare “to treat as a stranger,” from […]

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Knives Out: An Extremely
 Sharp Holiday Gift Guide

Everybody wants a good knife.
 Here’s where to find the best in the land.
Avatar photo Andrea Damewood

[Editor’s note: Read all our holly jolly HOLIDAY GUIDE articles here. Looking for a print copy? Good! You can find it in more than 500 spots across Portland with this handy map!] For your favorite home chef or local line cook, a new knife is a thing of glory—and it’s even better when someone else […]

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Fairytale of Old Portland

A love letter to a less shiny city, and the teenagers, insomniacs,
and eccentrics who populated it.
Avatar photo Ben Coleman

[Editor’s note: Read all our holly jolly HOLIDAY GUIDE articles here. Looking for a print copy? Good! You can find it in more than 500 spots across Portland with this handy map!] It was December 25, 2013, and everyone in the gay steakhouse was getting amiably drunk. It was one of those Portland winters that […]

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Eight Vinyl Gift Ideas for the Holidays

Nothing says “you’re cool” like the gift of vinyl.
Avatar photo Jenni Moore

[Editor’s note: Read all our holly jolly HOLIDAY GUIDE articles here. Looking for a print copy? Good! You can find it in more than 500 spots across Portland with this handy map!] The holidays are a great time to support your loved one’s passions (read: greatest obsessions) by splurging on vinyl copies of their favorite […]

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Fantastic Holiday Treats
(and Where to Find Them)

A roundup of the best holiday sweets and snacks for your festivities.
Avatar photo Martha Daghlian

[Editor’s note: Read all our holly jolly HOLIDAY GUIDE articles here. Looking for a print copy? Good! You can find it in more than 500 spots across Portland with this handy map!] Throughout centuries of human civilization, people have sought out ways to combat the darkness and cold temperatures of winter: from ancient temples that […]

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What’s the “Holiday” in Holiday Beers?

Local brewers describe the secret ingredients that put their beers in the holiday spirit.
Avatar photo Joe Streckert

[Editor’s note: Read all our holly jolly HOLIDAY GUIDE articles here. Looking for a print copy? Good! You can find it in more than 500 spots across Portland with this handy map!] Every year around November, beer aisles and bottle shops get seasonal. Winter ales appear on the shelves right around the time frost starts […]

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Christmas Music for Every Mood

Four examples of music that take a decidedly
different spin on the holidays.
Avatar photo Corbin Smith

[Editor’s note: Read all our holly jolly HOLIDAY GUIDE articles here. Looking for a print copy? Good! You can find it in more than 500 spots across Portland with this handy map!] Over the years, the recording industry has managed to create Christmas music for every mood. Thousands of sad piano takes on “The Christmas […]

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