Welcome to Green City USA

Welcome to Green City USA <p>Portland is at the center of the green revolution, and our <strong>green issue</strong> is out to prove it. Read The Ripple Effect for 15 big ideas that are changing how we impact our environment. And discover the oasis hidden amid Portland’s concrete and barbed wire: blue herons hunt fish and chorus frogs sing in waters that are cleaner than they have been in years. (Plus, how you can explore Portland’s waterways yourself.)</p>

In this issue:

Arts & Culture

WE LIKED IT

Doomsdayer’s Holiday

05/19/2009 By Lucas Bradley-Kelly

WE LIKED IT

Hearts & Daggers

05/19/2009 By Lucas Bradley-Kelly

5 MINUTES WITH…

Sarah Vowell

In The Wordy Shipmates (Penguin Books), Vowell revisits the 17th-century Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Company, finding them to be a singular and idiosyncratic bunch.

05/19/2009 By John Chandler

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Long Way Home

Oft-displaced artistic powerhouse Disjecta settles into more permanent digs on the edge of working-class Kenton.

05/19/2009 By Martha Calhoon

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Book Binders

A clerk at Powell’s finds multiple loves (and other difficulties) in between the pages.

05/19/2009 By Aaron Gilbreath

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Win a Getaway

It’s your last week to play the online scavenger hunt.

05/19/2009

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Mean Girls Like Me

Determined to prove herself, an untested skater charges into a game ruled by breakneck speed, big collisions, and fishnet hose.

05/19/2009 By Kasey Cordell

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Comics 101

This month Portland State University and Dark Horse Comics open the country’s first comic book archive.

05/19/2009 By Kristen Hall-Geisler

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Rebound Relationship

Jilted Sonics fans may well turn their adoration to the Blazers this season. Help them make the transition.

05/19/2009 By Benjamin Golliver

Eat & Drink

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Smooth Operator

A $4 million restaurant debuts on a lonely stretch of the South Waterfront. But is the food as opulent as the décor?

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

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Ponzi 2007 Whites and Rosés

Our Critic’s Top Wine Picks

05/19/2009 By Condé Cox

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Fool Proof

Once banned from being sold domestically because it was thought to drive people mad, absinthe makes a comeback in Portland.

05/19/2009 By Tom Colligan

RECIPE

American French Fries, Paley-Style

From sweetbreads to French Fries: In their first cookbook, Kimberly and Vitaly Paley aren't afraid to put everything on the table.

05/19/2009 By Nancy Rommelmann

INTRODUCING…

50 Plates

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

THE HIT LIST

Counter Culture

Grab a stool at a local diner and dig into Portland’s best old-school eats.

05/19/2009 By Stacey Wilson

Editor's Note

Publisher’s Note

High Five

05/19/2009 By Nicole Vogel

Health & Wellness

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Mind the Gap

Buying green sure sounds like a good idea. But it’s also a luxury not everyone has.

05/19/2009 By Camela Raymond

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Mother’s Helper

Award-winning doula Christy Hall talks about jailhouse births, modern feminism, and the postpartum watercooler.

05/19/2009 By Randy Gragg

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Power From the People

A Northeast Portland gym charges up with green energy—and sweat.

05/19/2009 By John Chandler

Home & Real Estate

(It's the place to be.)

Green Acres

Think communes went out with the 1960s? Welcome to Cedar Moon, where the quinoa grows tall, Nubian goats mow the lawn, and life (almost) off the grid is sweet.

05/19/2009 By Bart Blasengame