Feed Me Portland!

I have been on a tear recently, eating, drinking and flitting about on weekdays, weekday nights and weekends like I've been sitting still for 6 months.Oh wait, I did.

In high school, before good taste catches up with the mere novelty of liquor, I remember a certain misguided group of friends eschewing the high culture offerings of Prague to find a dingy tourist bar offering 'real strong absinthe,' which they consumed straight, hoping to feel the eyelid flutters, teeth grinding and mild n

"Struggling only makes it tighter, cookie monster...""Cookies like Novocain."

I know that playing professional soccer in the United States involves a vow of poverty (unless you're goldenballs), but someone's taken it a bit too far:MLS player retires to enter pri

Rant: Fucking Timbers. They're playing like they're two goals up when they're two goals down.Rave: little piggy Give-away that gave the Army ammunition to pelt the Puerto Rico Goalkeeper who shook his nuts at us.Rant: Fucking Timbers.Rave: Bringing tourists into the Army who had fun des

I had a pretty good independence day, including leading a bike tour for some PDX noobs, giving directions to I5 to a folksy father and son team from small town Oklahoma, and preceded by a great friendly match between the Timbers and a Monarcas De Morelia, a vastly superior team. Friendlies are great because they bring out

Those of you who know me or my family may be aware of a generational divide over the idea of 'music,' which means that my brother and I, throughly educated in the arts of syncopation and the wonders of music made in, y'know, the 20th century, have our own idea of what good music is: Afro Cuban, 1960s-1970s soul and MoTown,

The North American Organic Brewers Festival is coming to Portland this weekend at Overlook Park in North Portland!The line up of beer looks

Portland Farmers Market: EastbankYuppies, Children and Grazing OH MY!Every Thursday, May to September.SE 20th and Salmon, in the Parking lot of Hinson Church.

"Me like Robert Downey Jr. of Cookies"(for those viewing this in an RSS reader, click through for a video.)