If you're interested in protest or revolutionary art, this show is for you. A large collection of political art from an artists' col...

Our corner of NE Portland is turning into a global restaurant mecca, with taquerias and Thai spots elbowing each other for room amidst the E...

Had coffee one recent morning at the Busy Corner, a little cafe hidden away on a corner in the Woodstock neighborhood. It reminded me of one...

Our friends Monique and Kevin came over for dinner the other night and, while I'm not a big hostess-gift person (a bottle of wine seems ...

One thing you should know about me is that I'm a complete sucker for dim sum. Maybe it's the allure of those mysterious little noodl...

And I return with a message of bounty. My friend Kathryn and I ventured out to deep Beaverton to explore what's being termed the flagshi...

Woo hoo! Now you can get an RSS feed of GoodStuffNW! What the heck is an RSS feed? Well, it's a machine-readable version of the blog th...

The next couple of weeks have a distinctly canine focus, with the Rose City Classic dog show coming up starting on Jan. 18 and continuing t...

We stopped into Laurelwood for a pint of their Moose and Squirrel, a dark and delicious Russian Imperial Stout, and heard that in the very ...

I had the good fortune to meet Kaie Wellman, local maven and originator of the Eat. Shop. series of guidebooks to some of the best places o...

Our friends from the Marqués de Valdueza olive oil estate in Spain let us know that that their estate olive oil has just been named a final...

I know, I know, you're all tired of hearing me blather on and on about Foster and Dobbs but, sheesh, they're just blocks from my ho...

We are so lucky to live in Portland, especially those of us on the east side of the river, because of the profusion of great ethnic restaura...

My old pal Steve Bloch has been on an extended trip to India and parts beyond and, after he'd been saying what a grand time he's be...

Well, y'see, there's this guy named Jim Dixon (yes, the Jim Dixon who writes for Willamette Week) who imports and wholesales olive o...

If you have a cook on your list, or one of those people who drool over recipes and collect cookbooks the way some people collect Wade figuri...

If you're out shopping on Hawthorne and have worn your shoes down through the soles looking for that perfect gift for Aunt Edna, stop an...

I stopped in at my friend Kim's shop, Urbino, on NW 23rd because it always has the most wonderful, Christmas-y feeling this time of year...

If you love Uwajimaya , the all-things-Asian superstore, but hate driving out to deep Beaverton for your key limes or wasabi peas, there...

Last Saturday morning my husband, Dave, and I were driving along on some Christmas errand or other and pulled up behind a car at a stop ligh...

Our friend Kathryn has hosted a yearly cookie decorating party for the last decade, and we were invited this year even though we have no you...

We used to be the kind of family that would trek out to the hinterlands to a tree farm and tromp all over the muddy hillsides in the freezin...

For the Wallace on your Christmas list, or any list for that matter, there's no better gift than a cheese-of-the-month club. And wouldn...

A surge of development is hitting yet another formerly dreary eastside strip. The few blocks surrounding the intersection of 50th and Divisi...

Last weekend we went to our first house concert at the home of our friends Bob and Chris. It featured new transplant to Portland (from Mass...