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A Wine Club Worth Waiting For—Plus, Vinlandia!
by MJ Skegg When Tom Monroe and Kate Norris established Division Winemaking they expected to have a wine club up and running within their first year. It’s actually taken until their sixth vintage, but...
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Housing Activists Showed Up At a Landlords' Gala. Here's What Went Down
by Dirk VanderHart Local landlord industry group MultiFamily NW held its glitzy annual ACE Awards tonight, and nattily dressed property management folks were breathless in anticipation for categories...
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Good Morning, News: Drunk Chief Problems, Cheering Comcast's Pain, and Obomba...
by Dirk VanderHart You've probably heard by now that Police Chief Larry O'Dea had bloodshot, glassy eyes and smelled of alcohol after he mistakenly shot his friend in the back. A Harney County...
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Forget $15 Per Hour—Oregonians Now Need More Than That to Afford an Apartment
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey According to this story from The Atlantic's Citylab, a new report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition has found that the hourly wage needed to afford even a modest...
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If You're Going to Turn Into an Animal, Deciding to Turn Into a Lobster Seems...
by Erik Henriksen Here's the thing about The Lobster, the thing that'll either make you want to see it or never see it: It captures what it feels like to be single. And not just that—it captures what...
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In Francesca, Isabella, Margarita, A Pageant of Cringe-Comedy Antics at Imago...
by Katie Pelletier The first time I watched It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia at the urging of a friend, I didn't like it. I probably wouldn't have watched it again, but I found myself home with the...
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La Sera Two-Steps into Country
by Ciara Dolan LA SERA Throwing garage-pop fuzz to the wind.JULIA BROKAWTHE CASUAL DEFLECTION of the title Music for Listening to Music To, La Sera's fourth full-length, might read as impersonal or...
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The Mausoleum (AKA The Coolest Place Ever) Is Open on Monday!
by Courtney Ferguson Wilhelm's Portland MemorialCourtney FergusonIt's almost here! Memorial Day is the one day of the year that the Wilhelm Mausoleum (6705 SE 14th) opens to the public. Monday's open...
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Josh Alpert, Charlie Hales' Chief of Staff, Is Leaving City Hall
by Dirk VanderHart Josh Alpert—Heading out of City Hall.Josh Alpert— Mayor Charlie Hales' chief of staff and the central architect of the city's new strategies around homelessness—is leaving City Hall...
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Timbers v. Chicago Match Preview
by Abe Asher Molly J. Smith/Portland TimbersAfter a cathartic 4-2 win over the Vancouver Whitecaps, the Portland Timbers set about the slightly less glamorous task of piling up points and dragging...
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Amid Controversy, Sheriff Dan Staton to Retire. Former Portland Police Chief...
by Doug Brown ***Update***Multnomah County chair Deborah Kafoury just issued the following statement on Sheriff Dan Staton's retirement:These issues have been a recurring distraction for the men and...
View ArticleTom McCall Waterfront "Pay To" Park
by Anonymous Everyday someone complains about how Portland is changing for the worse. Well guess what lazy Portlanders, if you want Portland to retain it's "keep Portland Weird" ethos, you have to...
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PREMIERE: Here's a New Sunbathe Track from Golden Brown's Perfectly Toasted...
by Ciara Dolan We've got the exclusive premiere of Sunbathe's "Magic Number," a previously unreleased song that feels like it could soundtrack a montage of sweet but unreachable memories from the...
View ArticleSL Letter of the Day: Foot Imprints
by Dan Savage Originally posted on October 8, 2014.I'm 25, I'm virgin, and I find it quite difficult to relate with girls. My main problem is I can't accept my sexuality. I'm into fetish SM. But it...
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Gov. Kate Brown Has Renewed a Cease-and-Desist Order on Bullseye Glass
by Daniel Forbes The high-wire negotiations between Gov. Kate Brown and Bullseye Glass have stalled. Leah Feldon, a special assistant to Oregon Department of Environment Quality (DEQ) Director Pete...
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After Four Decades, The Cure Still Balances Gloom and Knavish Glee
by Robert Ham THE CURE Less mope, more hope.ANDY VELLAONE OF THE more frustrating, kneejerk musical assumptions is that the Cure is strictly for sad-sacks—the lipstick- and mascara-smeared goths who...
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Portland Public Schools Didn't Immediately Shut Off Water Faucets With High...
by Dirk VanderHart As worries over lead (and other metals) in Portland air threaten to shutter a local art-glass factory, Portland Public Schools suddenly finds itself flirting with controversy over...
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Check Out Videos from Some Recent Ear Candy Shows!
by Ciara Dolan Here's a whole new batch of videos from our recent Ear Candy concerts at Mississippi Studios featuring up-and-coming Portland acts Keegan Bauer, the Crenshaw, Andrew Endres Collective,...
View ArticleOn Being a Woman Getting Her Car Fixed
by Anonymous So, it's great that someone hit my parked car and didn't have the decency to leave a note. Great, now I have to try and figure out just where I can go to get an my car fixed without being...
View ArticleYou: 0 / Snookums: 10000000000000000000000000000!!
by Anonymous I have many deal-breakers when it comes to dating, but the one thing that I cannot stand are people with kids. EW! I'm not looking to be a step-parent or anything like that. YUCK! I LOVE...
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