Love Letters is Portland Monthly’ s quarterly series from nonfiction comics creator and editor Shay Mirk celebrating the parties and places that shape our city.

Eugene punches above its weight in the baked goods category, and right now Noisette Pastry Kitchen is the go-to morning stop. Its flaky multilayered croissants sell out quickly, so don’t dawdle.

Staying on the vineyard isn’t as immediate of a thought. Though it absolutely should be. At Abbey Road Farm in Carlton, for instance, three transformed grain silos make a five-room bed-and-breakfast, ...

There’s so much fantastic design in this town—how’s a house supposed to stand out? How about a surprise tiki bar off a mid-level stair landing? It certainly got our attention. Not that you’d guess ...

Many of the Willamette Valley’s best wineries are within an hour or two of Portland, making a day trip of tasting a relatively easy feat. But why pass up a nightcap on a veranda with a vineyard view?

Portland Monthly chronicles, challenges, and celebrates one of America’s most innovative cities, inspiring readers to explore and shape the vibrant metropolis we call home.

Portland Monthly chronicles, challenges, and celebrates one of America’s most innovative cities, inspiring readers to explore and shape the vibrant metropolis we call home.

Portland Monthly chronicles, challenges, and celebrates one of America’s most innovative cities, inspiring readers to explore and shape the vibrant metropolis we call home.

Sitting on the crest of a hill, just off the appropriately named NW Hilltop Drive in the West Hills, this pristine midcentury ...

Being Dead rocks. The Austin band’s chanty, thrummy, spaced out, disaffected, charging antirock owes a lot to the crown jewel ...