Outdoor Dining

Outdoor Dining <p>Join us this month for 50 Outdoor Dining destinations where the cuisine is supreme and the scenery serene. Also, get caught up with the best Belgian beers, and see what a designing family did to spruce up their Raleigh Hills split-level home.</p>

In this issue:

Arts & Culture

WATCH

VIDEO: Poetry in Motion

See exclusive video of a trio of our top poets waxing dramatic.

07/22/2011

Long Story [Short]

The Designer

Joey Roth, 27.

07/22/2011 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Do This Now! August 2011

Cycling, softball, and seeing spectacular homes are on tap for August.

07/22/2011

Mudroom

Get Versed

Portland’s freshest poets take center stage at the city’s most entertaining reading series.

07/22/2011 By Ryan Donaldson

Mudroom

Fantasy Mayor 2012: Timber Joey

Timber Joey for mayor? Or are we barking up the wrong tree?

07/22/2011 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Word on the Street: August 2011

Let's hear it for the dietary indecisive!

07/22/2011

Mudroom

Sew Like a Man

PDX PHD: Make yourself smarter.

07/22/2011 By Emily Burton

Mudroom

Five Questions For: Nikki McClure

Olympia, Washinton's cut-paper chronicler of DIY life opens her first retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Craft.

07/22/2011 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

PDX Index: Rivers

Washed Out?

07/22/2011 By Ryan Donaldson

Now Read This

It Looked Different on the Model

By Laurie Notaro

07/22/2011 By Anne Adams

On The Town

Trade Routes

Leach has made Portland part of a global marketplace. Here’s a sampling of 30 works she has imported and exported to and from the Rose City.

07/22/2011

Culturephile

Global Canvas

Connected the wider art world to Portland—and vice versa.

07/22/2011 By Randy Gragg

Mudroom

The Perfect Party: August 2011

People we’d most like at our dinner table this month.

07/22/2011

An Appendix

Eat Outside: Off the Eaten Path

Favorite alfresco meals from select Portland neighborhoods.

07/21/2011

Eat & Drink

EAT OUTSIDE

Outdoor Dining August 2011

Since you’re going out to eat anyway, why not take it a step further? Our guide to fresh-air feasting has the lowdown on the best places to see the skyline.

08/01/2011

Cover Story

Eat Outside: On the Water

Riverside reprieves.

07/22/2011 By Kasey Cordell

Cover Story

Eat Outside: Up in Flames

Fire pits worth a visit.

07/22/2011 By Kasey Cordell

Cover Story

Eat Outside: Sunny Side Up

Open-air breakfast favorites.

07/22/2011 By Rachel Ritchie

Cover Story

Eat Outside: Rooftop Respites

Meals without walls.

07/22/2011 By Martin Patail

Cover Story

Eat Outside: Ale Alfresco

Outdoor beer halls.

07/22/2011 By Martin Patail

Cover Story

Eat Outside: P-Town Picnic

Sometimes finding a spot to eat outdoors is no picnic, but we're here to help.

07/22/2011 By Zach Dundas

Cover Story

Eat Outside

Your guide to dining in the sunshine.

07/22/2011 Edited by Kasey Cordell

Pour

7 Delicious Beers from Belgium

For a truly continental taste, you must discover suds from a truly obsessed bastion of beer.

07/22/2011 By Condé Cox

Savor

Local Preserver Pink Slip Jam Captures August's Vivid Flavors in a Jar

Suzanne Fuoco's jams combine fruit flavors from well outside the box.

07/22/2011 By Amara Holstein

Review

Field Studies

Some of the city's best chefs gather for a new kind of farm fest.

07/22/2011 By Karen Brooks

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note

State of Refuge

07/22/2011 By Randy Gragg

Home & Real Estate

Mudroom

Plantwise: Blue Bonanza

Growing fruit in your backyard is a berry, berry good idea.

07/22/2011 By Kate Bryant

Wish List

Ideas for an Artful Modern Retreat

Just a few suggestions for DIY decor that will brighten up any bungalow.

07/22/2011

Mudroom

Go West!

Will humble Hillsboro define Portland’s future?

07/22/2011 By Zach Dundas

News & City Life

FEATURE

The Hidden War

Bullets, Bombs, IEDS. For today’s armed forces, the risks are many. But for women who serve their country, some of the greatest dangers come from an enemy within: men.

07/20/2011 By Kasey Cordell

Style & Shopping

PRÊT-À-PORTLAND

Test Pattern

Bold prints take over the summer runways.

07/22/2011 By Eden Dawn

Mudroom

Seed Money

A new company plows investment cash into organic farms.

07/22/2011 By Eleanor R. Brown

Habitat

Urban Escape

A renovated split-level provides a forested haven of style for a creative family.

07/22/2011 By Amara Holstein

Travel & Outdoors

Trail of the Month

Wahtum Lake

Keep cool in the heat with a little wading at Wahtum Lake.

07/22/2011 By Brian Barker