A former Portland Monthly editor in chief, Zach Dundas is the author of the The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes.

Editor’s Note

Golden Goals

With the Portland Timbers' first season as an MLS team fast approaching, over 10,000 season tickets have been sold. The question is, can the low-budget "Timbers Army" fan base that has been with the team for 10 seasons in an obscure second-tier league sur

02/11/2011 By Zach Dundas and Martin Patail

Mud Room

Sea Change

A new captain steers McCormick & Schmick’s through choppy waters.

01/14/2011 By Zach Dundas

Mud Room

State of Wonder

Is Oregon the most romantically flexible place in the nation?

01/14/2011 By Zach Dundas

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The Best of Times

As a new year begins, we salute all that’s going well (Seriously!)

12/22/2010 By Zach Dundas

DO THIS NOW

Off Hours: January 2011

How to spend your free time this month

12/22/2010 By Zach Dundas

READ

30 seconds with… Richard Settersten

Oregon State professor and coauthor of Not Quite Adults, on slow-starting twentysomethings.

12/22/2010 By Zach Dundas

Salem 2011

Friends With Benefits

As a divided Oregon Legislature convenes, relationships—between people, not parties— could decide the state’s future

12/16/2010 By Randy Gragg and Zach Dundas

2010 Best Bars

Rules of the Juke

Guidelines for putting together your playlist, from a jukebox junkie

11/17/2010 By Zach Dundas

2010 Best Bars

Best Bars to Score a Deal

Cocktail Recipes

11/17/2010 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Scene & Herd

A sign on the fence declared “Banquet in progress,” and outside, goat-fanciers gathered as dozens of the beasts ruminated over a smorgasbord of weeds and garbage on a vacant lot at SE 10th Avenue and Belmont Street.

11/16/2010 By Zach Dundas