Credit: PHOTOS BY NOLAN CALISCH

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PHOTOS BY NOLAN CALISCH

If you’ve been paying attention to the Portland food scene over the last several years, you’ve probably heard about Morgan St. Theater. The ice cream pop-up pairs courses of inventive ice cream desserts with storytelling, Dr. Seuss read-offs, puppeteering, and even flamenco dancing.

On paper, the pop-up reads like a Portlandia sketch, skewering our city’s twee-est side, but the events are sincere, inclusive, and, at times, even a little subversive.

Chad Walsh writes about Portland’s food scene and other stuff, too. He makes a mean carbonara and an even meaner chicken larb, and he’ll never muddle fruit in your Old Fashioned because he knows you...