Am I Financially Responsible? Recently, we’ve been hearing a lot about how the looming global recession will make the Depression look like the Moulin Rouge. All this yammering has made many of us examine our own fiscal conservatism. What shape will you be in when capitalism collapses? Take the simple quiz and find out. Good […]
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CafÉ Castanga
Café Castanga 1752 SE Hawthorne, 231-7373 When I was in college, my friends and I would spend all our money on drugs, beer, and text books. Since we couldn’t afford to eat, we’d do something called “scrounging,” waiting at the end of the cafeteria line to eat people’s leftovers: soggy fries, vinegar-soaked lettuce and cabbage, […]
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MUST…EAT…FOOD!
Our Obsessive-Compulsive Eating and Drinking Guide
THE YEAR OF EATING DANGEROUSLY Sharing an Eating Disorder with My Best Friend by Katia Dunn THE NEW SPRING LINE OF LIQUOR A Lush’s Guide to the New and Unusual by Wm. Steven Humphrey and Quinn Viladas SWEETS FOR THE SWEET Manipulation through Licorice by Kathleen Wilson SUCKIN’ THE BONE Chicken Necks with a Friend […]
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PAL’S SHANTY TAVERN
PAL’S SHANTY TAVERN 4630 NE Sandy Blvd, 288-973 Jim, who I barely knew, called to tell me he was broke, and to ask if I would buy him lunch. I drove over, picked him up, and drove us both to Pal’s Shanty. “This is an okay place,” he said. I agreed. “Portland’s got a lot […]
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The Year of Eating Dangerously
Sharing an Eating Disorder with My Best Friend
In high school, my best friend and I were inseparable. When we were two, Erin and I met in play-school, and we formed a friendship based on pushing the limits of everything. After scaling a building when we were seven, I watched as she fell and slit her chin open. She didn’t cry until she […]
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The New Spring Line of Liquor
A Lush’s Guide to the New and Unusual
Spring is a time for rebirth and renewal–as well as getting stoopid drunky on the liquor of one’s choice. However, after emerging from a winter-long slumber of hot toddies and PBR, wouldn’t it be nice to have a brand new drink to go along with the brand new you? Face facts, folks; everybody including the […]
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Sweets for the Sweet
Manipulation through Licorice
For years I’ve been in the constant possession of a shirt that, as a child, I believed to be magic. And when I pull it out of the drawer and slip my arms into its well-worn sleeves, I smell red licorice. I came to own the shirt when I was 25, after rifling through my […]
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Suckin’ the Bone
Chicken Necks with a Friend
Food was never very important to my family when I was growing up, so my relationship to it has always been functional: I eat when hungry, and I don’t care whether I’m sharing the experience with anyone else. In fact, I never knew how important food was to some people–much less that people actually bonded […]
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Twenty-Nine Cent Hamburger
Everyone Has a Price; Especially When Starving
Twenty-nine cents for a hamburger? A person could feed a nation! A thirty-nine-cent cheeseburger? It’s insane! Sundays and Wednesdays. I couldn’t wait for these days to come around. Holding 60 cents in my hand, two quarters and a dime, standing in line, knowing exactly what to order. For years I lived almost next door to […]
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Ah’m Hown-gray! (Translation: “I’m Hungry.”)
A GUIDE TO THE BEST PORTLAND EATS
Compiled by Wm. Steven Humphrey, Phil Busse, Julianne Shepherd, Katia Dunn, Quinn Viladas, Katie Shimer, Jessica Troiano, Monica Drake, and Louise Ross Low blood sugar is setting in, and you’re looking at the love of your life as if their head was a pork chop. The question arrives: “Where do you want to eat?” And […]
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Eggcetra
Eggcetra 1501 NE Fremont 288-3766 I’m sad that I have to write this negative review, because the service at Eggcetra (I’m not even going to comment on the dumbness of the name) is stellar. You know when you meet one of those waitresses who seems like she is genuinely interested in being your friend, rather […]
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Self-Hell
Recently, it has come to our attention that many people across the United States believe themselves to be in love with Benicio Del Toro. But before you leave your spouse and children, don’t you think you should be sure? Working around the clock with a team of crack Benicio Del Toro experts, we have put […]