The report post-festival ? There were alotta tomatoes, man. End of report. What, you want more than that? OK, then, the exact number of vari...

For years I kept seeing lamps around Portland that reminded me of Isamu Noguchi's Akari lamps, translucent organic shapes stretched ove...

If you're someone who thinks that anything good about Portland stops at the west bank of the Willamette and the only time you head east ...

The Bard of Ayers Creek, Anthony Boutard , sends another bulletin from the real world. To subscribe to his missives, simply e-mail him and ...

I have to admit it was one of those ambivalent moments, kind of like arriving at the the Hundred Steps in Mt. Tabor Park and hearing Kristin...

Say you've got an elderly aunt coming to town and she wants to take you out to lunch. In the old days you'd head straight downtown t...

You are currently reading the 250th post on GoodStuffNW , 15 months of posting about the food, people, places and events in and around the P...

Last weekend was unusual for us in that we had commitments every evening, something we normally try to avoid since we're more in the ...

A bit of blurbage to vary the pace a bit: Randy Montgomery, the former cheese wizard of Provvista Specialty Foods, and his immensely talente...

Like my brother and myself, my friend, Loo , and her sib, Hank , are both bloggers. Hank writes about politics for The Record, a paper in S...

Y'know, I start thinking I've almost caught up on new places to eat in this town, then someone says, "Hey, let's meet for l...

Listening to my friend Susana wax poetic about her tomatoes, I said, "Write that down and I'll post it on the blog." So she di...

Last weekend our new neighbors invited us to a farm in Washington County for a glass-blowing demonstration and sale. We arrived and found ...

So I did it. I got off the pot, took the bull by the horns, saddled up, felt the heat from the Swedish meatballs and stayed in the kitchen a...

Okay, some information I just don't want to know. There are things I don't care about, like Tom Cruise's latest film debacle or ...

We will often get a couple of days in February or March where the temperature heads up into the seventies and the sky turns from dark grey t...

It was a very bad day. One of those days that forever changes you. A day that delineates a definite "Before" and "After....

Back in the day, SE Foster Road was the home of Tom ("Free is a very good price!") Peterson and various dive bars and chop shops w...

How often have you spent a fair amount of money of a nice piece of cheese and had it dry out or get moldy in the fridge? Or bought some fro...

Another in a series of engaging essays from Anthony Boutard, the Bard of Ayers Creek . And if you're interested in receiving his missive...

On my occasional forays to the Sellwood neighborhood, I'd come across the bridge and there, on my right, would be a building under what ...

Not to go all foodie on you, but a couple of years ago there was a big discussion going on about the best Banh Mi place in Portland, whethe...

Within a couple of days after we met our new neighbors, they brought over bags of Vietnamese sandwiches, called Banh Mi , savory pastries ( ...