Welcome, traveler. Letโs toast your arrival with an alcoholic drink, which Portlanders love even more than coffee or weed. In the spirit of assimilation, hereโs a visitorโs guide to drinking in Portland: BEER Horse Brass Pub (4534 SE Belmont) Portland beer culture would be nothing without Don Younger, a beer drinkerโs beer drinker and adviser […]
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A Quick Peek at Portlandโs Neighborhoods
Portlandโs not so big! Even if youโre only here for a short time, itโs easy to catch the flavor of each of the five quadrants of our city. (Yes, we know… five quadrants is an oxymoron. But remember how they told you Portland was รขโฌลweirdรขโฌย?) No matter where you end up, youรขโฌโขll always be able […]
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A Quick Peek at Portlandโs Neighborhoods
A Quick Peek at Portland’s Neighborhoods
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The Overlook Restaurant, a Portland Staple for 40 Years, Might Become Apartments
Overlook Restaurant Facebook The Overlook Restaurant, a cheap and delicious stalwart for more than four decades at N Skidmore and Interstate, might be the next Portland institution giving up the ghost in favor of development. After weeks of rumors the restaurant would be shuttering, documents filed with the city’s Bureau of Development Services this month […]
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What a Lents Resident Thinks About the Future of Lents
The future of Lents might also be the future of the New Copper Penny I’d never been to the New Copper Penny until last night. I didn’t dance. I didn’t bet on a horse. I didn’t even get a drink. The four-decade Lents institution played host to a forum on the future of the neighborhood, […]
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Mayor Charlie Hales Finally Has Support for Street Closures! Provided He Drastically Changes Them
Mayor Charlie Hales seems as surprised as anyone that crime-stopping efforts in gin-and-tonic-happy Old Town are suddenly popular. “This has gone from management of a liability to an opportunity,” Hales said earlier this afternoon, at a hearing on the weekly street closures that have raised hackles in Old Town/Chinatown since they began in December 2012. […]
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You’re Probably Paying an Unfair Amount of Property Tax. Here’s a Helpful Map!
As the Multnomah County auditor, Steve March mostly concerns himself, understandably, with county business. He’s looked at the sheriff’s troubles with overtime and the county’s overspending on cell phones. And he even created a helpful tool to let you know whether anyone in county government was taking those recommendations seriously. Now March has widened his […]
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Here, Have A Look at All the Dangerous Chemicals Near Your Home/Work/Child’s Daycare
Brett Superstar Early July was filled with so much hope—the promise of endless weeks of summer sun, that odd nostalgia we all feel for fireworks. So the Mercury decided to snap everyone out of it, with a long story about the many deadly chemicals being stowed all over our fair city, and the piteous (potentially […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
FILMโNW Film Center’s been celebrating Wes Anderson’s films and inspirations all month, and they saved the best for last: Not only are they screening Moonrise Kingdomโmaybe the purest distillation of Anderson’s aesthetic in a single filmโbut the Mercury’s delightful Erik Henriksen is introducing it. BOBBY ROBERTSWhitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park, 6 pm, $6-8 JADE DISTRICTโYou’ve […]
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Fritz Responds to Pearl Neighbors Over Right 2 Dream Too Proposal: “I Act to Do What I Believe Is Right”
Commissioner Amanda Fritz’s push to relocate Right 2 Dream Too beneath the Broadway Bridge’s Lovejoy Street off-ramp remains technically alive this afternoon—her office, when asked, had no updates saying the plug had been pulled—but it’s causing a kerfuffle among Pearl District neighbors. The Oregonian‘s Sara Hottman reported this morning that the neighborhood association is asking […]
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Who’s Still Mad About Parking?
Back in spring, when it seemed everyone in the city was angry about Portland’s parking supply, Alan Durning came to town and chided our electeds. “It’s a little bit like I’ve arrived in some nightmare alternative-reality version of Portland,” Durning, founder and executive director of Seattle-based Sightline Institute, told city commissioners on the verge of […]
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Police Union Answers City in Appeal Over Frashour Reinstatement
Months after Portland took the first step in its long-shot appeal of Portland police officer Ron Frashour’s reinstatement by an arbitrator, the Portland Police Association this week submitted a tart response that pokes the city for seeking a system that would let it arbitrarily “refuse to comply with any arbitration award in which the city […]