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I wrote this story on March 2nd for Reasons to be Cheerful , David Byrne's new publication.  As Washington State moves to ban companies...

(This story originally appeared on Civil Eats on Feb. 10th, 2020.)   On a recent Monday night, Jacobsen Valentine stood before a...

The American cannabis boom goes far beyond the vast ranks of stoners who can finally roll their joints legally. Hannah Wallace looks at...

This story first appeared on Civil Eats on Dec. 20, 2019. Forty-two years ago, when Seth Tibbott was 26, he visited a hippie commune in...

From tiny boîtes and chic restaurants to all-day cafés and well-stocked shops - the best wine bars in Portland, Oregon A decade ago, you could count the number of wine bars in Portland , Oregon on one hand, but over the past few years there’s been a flurry of openings, from tiny boîtes with simple fare to those that blur the line between wine  bar and wine-driven restaurant. Here are a selection of our favourite places to eat and drink in Portland. The new wave of Portland wi

The sun-filled dining room at Dóttir (Photo by Mikael Lundblad) These days, it seems like a new hotel opens in Portland every week. I...

My husband and I have been car-free for a decade, and one of the things that made this lifestyle possible was the existence of car2go, a...

Back in July, I reported on the Phylos Bioscience saga for Wired .  When Mowgli Holmes and his childhood friend Nishan Karassik founded...

Winemaker Barnaby Tuttle tells Club Oenologique about his most radical experiments, his mentors (he calls them the Mosel Mafia), and how psychedelic jazz energises his winemaking [ This interview was published in Club Oenologique in August 2019.] Drop into Barnaby Tuttle’s southeast Portland winery , and chances are he’ll be tending bar wearing a baseball cap and rocking out to Miles Davis’s psychedelic Bitches Brew . Tuttle, who runs  Teutonic Wine Company  with his wife Olg

This story on the evolution of Heath Ceramics appears in the July/August issue of Inc. Mention Heath Ceramics  to design nerds or  high-end restaurateurs , and chances are they'll fawn endlessly over its retro, midcentury tile or brightly glazed stoneware. Heath devotees are nothing new: Since visionary ceramicist Edith Heath and her husband started the company in 1948, enthusiasts have included architect Frank Lloyd Wright and chef Alice Waters. Yet the company likely woul

I live just an hour from the glorious Columbia Gorge, and whenever I go there to hike or taste wine, I take mental notes of all the new...

I wrote a Destination guide to Miami's startup scene for the July/August issue of Inc .  A vibrant immigrant entrepreneurial scene and a...

It seems to me that many of the most creative cannabis ventures in my home town of Portland are run by women. I was pleased, then, to be...

Since college, I've been a devoted Ani Difranco fan. If a CD were as delicate as a record, I would've worn away the grooves on Out of...

I wrote an insider's guide to Denver's start-up scene for the March/April issue of Inc.   See here for the online version .  Many are...

Cathy Whims has been resurrecting the classic Italian Maialata celebration in the Willamette Valley for the past 7 years. I wrote about...

I got to profile Bertony Faustin , a fantastic winemaker here in Oregon, for the Makers issue of Food & Wine . See below for the full...

I was happy to contribute a hotel review for Travel + Leisure's 2019 It List , the magazine's favorite new and radically redone hotels...

The guy from K9 and Red Heat now sells the strain smoked on Saturday Night Live back in the 1970s in Portland. The first time Jim Belushi smoked cannabis, he was a teenager in Wheaton, Illinois. “It must’ve been really good pot because I don’t remember,” he says. He does remember being busted twice for marijuana by Wheaton cops. “One time, it was marijuana. One time it was what we called Indiana ragweed. It wasn’t even weed. It was  weeds!” What a difference 45 years makes. B

Lisa Sedlar, founder and CEO of Green Zebra, an Oregon-based healthy convenience store chain  I wrote about Green Zebra for Inc. Green...