What comes to mind when you think of food and the LGBTIQ(Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, In-transition, and Queer) community? We like to eat? We have an abundance of food industry community members? Dig a little …

id Magazine joins many today focusing on the 100’s of people who have died because they were transgender. We are progressing as a society and community in passing laws that make it it illegal to …

By Christian Messer
Since the year 2001, Portland has been in love Mother’s Bistro. The food is amazing and best of all, it serves the most pleasurable food of all…Comfort food. Full disclosure? I am a …

West Cafe is a young, but thriving restaurant in the Portland Art Museum neighborhood. Owned by Sean Concannon and Doug Smith, the flourishing eatery offers a Bailout menu for customers, making a dinner here …

Wild Abandon, located 2411 SE Belmont St, will be soon celebrating 15 years of delicious food, since February 1995. We sat down with owner Michael Cox to discuss what drives his passion for the business …

Photo by Jeffrey Horvitz
By Nikki Jardin
Grocery Gardening Planting, Preparing and Preserving Fresh Food is a new book by Portland author Jean Ann Van Krevelen that evolved from a collaborative process amongst its four authors and …

By Matthew Free
Food is powerful currency. It has been as such since biblical times. For the importance of even the smallest of meals can feed a nation of people. Cultures and families …

Photo by Horace Long Photography
By Christian Messer
I was referred to Sarah Pool by a colleague, Chuck Arbuckle of Chuck Arbuckle Interiors at a networking function. He and I discussed the magazine and the stories …

By Bret Wurletzer
It was the mid-70’s – Ancient History to some. The bar scene was the only scene! The only really organized activity was something called the Imperial Rose Court. (And that …

Are all these pills necessary?
By Edward “Ed” Garren, MA, LMFT
You see those ads on TV, “If your anti-depressant alone isn’t enough, maybe you need (an extra pill).” The other one, from a local health …