Human/Nature

In his new autobiography, Cache: Creating Natural Economies, Spencer Beebe offers a tell-all look at his successes, failures, and the larger, often rut-ridden forks in the road between.

By Spencer Beebe

NSFW

The ethical and legal line between personal rights and public wrongs has always been blurry when it comes to pornography. Drs. Douglas Boyd and William Underwood, and their female staff entered a hall of mirrors as they tried to rid their office of a business colleague whose porn-cruising was potentially creating a hostile workplace and a harmful environment for patients.

By Lee Van Der Voo

Best Bars to Take a Date

For dates from the romantic to the respectable, find the room with the right atmosphere here.

By Kasey Cordell

Best Bars to Eat Well

These spots serve up dishes to perfectly compliment a fine whiskey, wine or beer.

By Rachel Ritchie

Bar Basics

If you really want to show off when you’re out on the town, tip right, keep your coaster on the table and drop these terms into your next conversation.

By Ali Moran

Rules of the Juke

A jukebox implies a social contract that’s unfashionable in today’s earbud era, but still very real.

By Zach Dundas

Classic Drinks to Try Before You Die

These neigh-forgotten traditional drinks are worth remembering.

Straight Up

Three of Portland’s best bartending stories, told by the bartenders themselves.

By Nicole Morales

How to Buy a Lady (or Gent) a Drink

Want a phone number? Start with a drink.

By Alexis Rehrmann

How to Drink Alone

Sipping solo can actually be a rewarding experience, a chance to sit back and quietly absorb the events of the day.

By Kasey Cordell

Best Bars to Become an Expert

Imbibe in ignorance no more. Recieve a tippler’s tutelage at these locales.

By Martin Patail

Best Bars to Play

From throwing darts to spinning records, Portlanders can indulge in an indoor Olympiad at these watering holes.

By Gretchen Holzgang, John Chandler, Georgia Perry, and Ali Moran

Best Bars to Score a Deal

The five o’clock world never looked so good.

By Zach Dundas

Best Bars to Hide Out

Whether off the beaten path, underground or out-of-state, these regional haunts are great for ladies’ nights, discreet encounters or silently lurking in the shadows.

By Rachel Ritchie and Kasey CordellWith contribution from Brian Barker

World Gone Plaid

The fashion world has gone crazy for “heritage,” a term encompassing all things grandfatherly and artisan-stitched, and brands like Pendleton, Filson and Danner.

By Ali Moran and Zach Dundas

La Niña

La Niña by the numbers.

By Nicole Morales

The Perfect Party

Spotted at the December Perfect Party: Blazers GM Rich Cho, county commissioner-elect Loretta Smith and her oponent, Karol Collymore, lemonade-stand renegade Julie Murphy, star chef Matthew Lightner, the Jefferson High donkey and the Old Spice Guy.

Gold School

Carolynn Duncann is the 29-year-old founder of Portland Ten, a boot camp-style, 12-week shock-therapy course in business fundamentals for tech entrepreneurs, in which “students” must pledge to aim for $1 million in revenue within 18 months.

By Eric Blokland

30 seconds with... Tex Clark

Tex Clark talks about the re-release of her 1995 feminist rockumentary, Radical Act.

By Zach Dundas

Fall & Winter Cleanup

You’ll soon be glad you left those architecturally handsome, winter-interest perennials standing. On the other hand, some plants should be removed or pruned promptly.

By Kate Bryant

The Kulongalaxy

Kulo’s sheer endurance means he’s overlapped with a cosmos of big names over his 40-year political career.

By Zach Dundas

Scene & Herd

A sign on the fence declared “Banquet in progress,” and outside, goat-fanciers gathered as dozens of the beasts ruminated over a smorgasbord of weeds and garbage on a vacant lot at SE 10th Avenue and Belmont Street.

By Zach Dundas

Klickitat Trail

Tucked in the rain shadow of the Cascades, the Klickitat Trail once rumbled with Burlington Northern railcars. Today, the 31-mile path links the towns of Lyle and Warwick, and is a haven for sun-starved hikers and bikers.

With contribution from Brian Barker

Word on the Street

The faux-rror…the faux-rorr.

Room With a View

Curtis Knapp and Aaron Flint Jamison have tuned the 1908 Yale Union Laundry Building at SE 10th Avenue and Belmont Street into YU Center for Contemporary Arts, “a sustainable center for contemporary international avant-garde art.”

By Randy Gragg

Little 
Big Buzz

If Ray Kroc went to the Rhode Island School of Design, with a semester in Tokyo, history may have looked like Little Big Burger, the Pearl District’s first independent fast-food joint.

By Karen Brooks

Courier Coffee Roasters

An intimate den of coffee cool, Courier Coffee roasts some of the best beans in the city, turning those smooth roasts into pour-over coffee and lovely lattes.

By Karen Brooks

Cellar Notes

Silcox Hut chef Jason Stoller Smith’s Winemaker’s Dinner Series pairs his sous vide-prepared black truffles, wild boar, short ribs, duck, and wagyu beef with Oregon’s best wines: Bergström, Chehalem, Cristom, Domaine Drouhin Oregon, Lange, Ponzi, and R. Stuart & Co.

By Condé Cox

Sunshine & Wine

With postcard-worthy views of the Pacific to the south and the shadowy Santa Ynez Mountains to the north, the trip from Santa Barbara’s palm-studded municipal airport to downtown is fraught with neck-craning distractions. But truly, it’s the local wine country that makes it the perfect destination for the winter-weary Portlander.

By Kasey Cordell

Chai Life

The chai served in Portland cafés is often a syrupy, cinnamon-spiked concoction. But order it in most Indian restaurants, and the richly seasoned spin on British tea offers a delicately balanced, complex flavor that’s perfect for pairing with your curry.

By Deena Prichep

Raw Faith

By Deena Prichep

Present Perfect

These five locally-designed essentials are perfect for the stylish Stumptown citizen. Plus, a slideshow of gift selections for this holiday season.

Survey of Portland Drinking

Cocktail Recipes

Whether you want to play mixologist at home, or just want to be enticed, these recipes let you in on some of the secrets of signature cocktails from some of Portland’s best bars.

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