Portland’s Best Bars 2022

The Rose City’s top bars, all-star bartenders, and bar bites. Plus: Oregon’s scream queens, fall road trip escapes, new vintage stores, and more

In this issue:

Arts & Culture

Dance

This Contemporary Dance Festival Is Ready to Broaden Portland’s Horizons

Now in its fifth year, Union PDX concentrates global talent in Southeast Portland.

11/07/2022 By Fiona McCann

Cinemas

The Hollywood Theatre Gets a Makeover

The iconic cinema’s façade receives a long-awaited renovation.

10/11/2022 By Conner Reed

Feature

Remembering Vampira and Tarantula Ghoul, Oregon’s Scream Queens

Inside the legacies of two locally grown horror hosts

10/03/2022 By Conner Reed Illustrations by Patrick Leger

Fall Arts

Preview: Jeffrey Gibson’s ‘They Come From Fire’ at Portland Art Museum

The artist’s photography project is a sprawling celebration of Oregon’s Indigenous communities, past and present.

09/28/2022 By Rebecca Jacobson

fall arts

Get Ready for Portland’s First Full-Blown Theatrical Season since 2019

Portland Center Stage, Artists Repertory Theatre, Profile, Lakewood, and other companies have big plans for local stages.

09/02/2022 By Conner Reed

Interview

Denial Presents a Compellingly Low-Key Vision of Post-Revolution Portland

Set in 2052, the latest novel from author/screenwriter Jon Raymond imagines a disillusioned future that looks a lot like the present, despite big policy victories.

07/22/2022 By Conner Reed

Movie Theaters

How the Clinton Street Theater’s New Owners Are Bringing It into the Future

The 107-year-old Southeast Portland punk palace is getting a light makeover—but its spirit is staying the same as ever.

07/19/2022 By Conner Reed

Eat & Drink

Editor's Note

From the Editor: On the Life-Changing Delights of the Best Bars

Whether it’s at your uncle’s pub in Offaly, a character-packed place on a Tokyo side street, or a new find in Portland, a night out can be magical.

09/20/2022 By Fiona McCann

Review

Portland Soup Dumpling Showdown: Who Makes the City's Best?

Two chain restaurants, three mom-and-pop shops. Who’s the xiao long bao champ?

09/12/2022 By Katherine Chew Hamilton

Home & Real Estate

Home Remodel

A Manzanita House with a History Gets a Game Changer of a Makeover

Out went the beige carpet and surfboard décor; in came smart built-ins, nautical curves, and a spa dream of a bathroom.

08/11/2022 By Julia Silverman Photography by George Barberis

News & City Life

Education

Portland Private Schools, by the Numbers 2022–2023

Use our handy guide to zero in on what you’re looking for, from faith-based education to language immersion and more.

05/02/2023 By Portland Monthly Staff

History

Meet Some of the Women Who Helped Shape Oregon as We Know It

From securing the right to vote to leading the state in Salem to representing Oregonians in DC, we owe a lot to Redmond, Neuberger, Green, Kafoury & more.

09/20/2022 By Margaret Seiler

Election 2022

Suzanne Bonamici Is Ready for Some Company

The Democrat from Beaverton has been the only woman in Oregon’s congressional delegation for a decade. Whatever happens in November’s elections, that will change.

09/15/2022 By Fiona McCann