Slide Show: Trophy Case
BIG IDEA A trip to Burma—where modern artists adapt traditional Buddhist icons—inspired Kevin Noonan’s own series of historical portraits, in which writers like Ernest Hemingway ap
Photography by Kevin Noonan
NIGHTSTAND Acclaimed young author Grace Krilanovich lives in LA, but in her impressively weird surreal-horror novel The Orange Eats Creeps (Two Dollar Radio, $16), “vampire hobo junkies” rampage around Port
Photography by Michael Novak
BAND OF THE MINUTE The hazy, melodic guitar pop of The Soft Tags puts a rocking knife edge on a dreamy cloud. See them live at the Ella Street Social Club
Photography by The Soft Tags
IMPORT Lille Boutique (1007 E Burnside St) is one of only two American shops to carry stockings and tights from France’s Les Queues de Sardines. Each quirky, girlishly graphic motif—like “Disco Zeus” (lightn
Photography by Les Queues de sardines
OBSESSION Three days each week, Little T American Baker (2600 SE Division St, 503-238-3458) makes its habit-forming date bars: flaky, cakey slabs of sweetness that are like graduate-level Fig Newtons. Tortur
Photography by Michael Novak
EXPORT Four years ago, Canby native Eric Singer used a tree limb, a knife, cabinet hinges, and corner-store lenses to make his first pair of shades. Now, his company, Shwood, fashions specs from sustainable
Photography by Shwood
