December 2016
Portland Culture Cheat Sheet

Pop Culture
Your Ultimate Portland Pop Culture Cheat Sheet
Top Stories
Table of Contents
Arts & Culture
Pop Culture
Your Ultimate Portland Pop Culture Cheat Sheet
Culture Cheat Sheet: Comics
6 Comics Heroes with Serious Portland Cred
Culture Cheat Sheet: Books
Why Beverly Cleary Is Portland’s Undisputed, Unofficial Novelist Laureate
Culture Cheat Sheet: Books
The Essential Portland Bookshelf: 32 Books That Define Our City and State
Culture Cheat Sheet: Music
Stumptown Soundtracks: A Hard-Rocking Portland Playlist
Culture Cheat Sheet: Music
Stumptown Soundtracks: A Seductive Portland Playlist
Culture Cheat Sheet: Music
Stumptown Soundtracks: An Eclectic Playlist for the Day-Drinker
Culture Cheat Sheet: Music
Stumptown Soundtracks: Homegrown Shoegaze for Rainy Walks (and Dampened Hearts)
Culture Cheat Sheet: Essay
Portland’s Cultural Exports Might Never Take Over the World. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing.
Culture Cheat Sheet: Movies
The Ultimate DIY Oregon Film Festival
Eat & Drink
Wise Up: Get Cooking
6 Places in Portland to Up Your Kitchen IQ
Word of Mouth
The 11 Best Things Food Critic Karen Brooks Ate in 2016
Recipes
Five Phenomenal Winter Cookies
Editor's Note
Editor’s Note
Can Pop Culture Conquer All?
Home & Real Estate
Next-Level Bodega
Mini Mini Reimagines the Convenience Store
News & City Life
Wise Up: PCC
A Beginner’s Guide to Portland Community College
Wise Up: Learn Something New
Yes, You Can Study That: 29 Portland Classes You Didn’t Know Existed
Wise Up: Get Artsy
6 Places in Portland to Embrace Your Inner Artist
Wise Up: Get Crafty
Basket Weaving to Spoon Carving, WildCraft Offers Arts & Crafts for Grown-Ups
Wise Up: Do It Yourself
5 Places in Portland to Get Your DIY On
Wise Up: Alterna-Master's Degree
Reed College’s Only Graduate Program Puts Intellectual Exploration above Practical Payoff
Wise Up: Humanity in Perspective
How a Class Designed for Low-Income Portlanders Changed One Mind—and Life
Wise Up: Get Smart
7 Places in Portland to Exercise Your Brain
The Shakedown
2016: Sizing Up the Year That Can’t End Soon Enough
Politics