March 31st, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Features, Food/Drink
Every stupid city in America is devising some dumb scheme to lure Google and its superfast fiber optic network there. Towns are renaming themselves Google, throwing untold subsidies at the project and so on. As for Portland, it’s bidding for the mega-network the only way it knows how: having one of the city’s top local [...]
March 31st, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Sex/Strippers
Hey lookie, there’s this contest that’s been going on for 100 years that we didn’t know about: Our BFFs at your Portland boozy internet concern, Barfly, are taking votes RIGHT NOW for your favorite things/people/toilets in Portland. Oh man, what a deal, go fucking vote now everybody!
March 31st, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis
We just don’t get why you guys are so upset about the police. What did they do that was so wrong? Oh, sure, they shot and killed a suicidal man while he had his back turned to them, and then, a couple weeks later, shot and killed a transient who was wielding a, um…oh let’s [...]
March 30th, 2010 | by Tyler | published in Food/Drink
Recent news for all you drinkers out there. Angostura Bitters, the most popularly used bitters in all of my favorite drinking holes is completely sold out. I’m not talking, wait until next week sold out, or we just haven’t made it sold out, but factory in Tobago and Trinidad shut down sold out. Rumors have [...]
March 30th, 2010 | by Tyler | published in Music/Bands/Clubs
NOOOOOOO! Ricky Martin, the toughest roughest dude to ever mosey onto a stage announced to the world yesterday that he is, in fact, gay.
March 29th, 2010 | by Matthew | published in Analysis
No shit, some daffy looking weather man used the, cover your children’s ears, “snow” word on the television last night, either that or the goddamn digital receiver box was on the fritz again.
March 29th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis
Thanks, Chuck. Couldn’t have said it better.
March 29th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis
Oh my, did any of you people here that big explosion last night? Scary, right? The authorities are stumped as to its cause, but we have a pretty good theory: It was the official deity of Stumptown Magazine, Zeus, just straight up raining thunder down on the masses, as usual. We can’t figure out why [...]
March 27th, 2010 | by Tyler | published in Features, Food/Drink
Today is Saturday, and that means Farmers Market. If you haven’t been, you should go. The Pine State Biscuit line is impossible, there are twenty root vegetables for sale you’ve never heard of and the music is “like listening to a ballerina” (overheard that quote last week). Free smells, samples and tons of neighbors bumping [...]
March 26th, 2010 | by Tyler | published in Analysis, Food/Drink
So happy Portlanders, today marks the return of yours truly to society. It’s been a rough past couple days, but I’m back amongst the living. My week consisted of sitting in a hot tub, drinking some of the best wines in the state, eating bacon wrapped scallops and butermilk banana pancakes doing some early morning [...]