Not being a football fan at all, I had no idea this was coming up. But, my lack of American manliness should not get in the way of your good time.Here are what some of the bars are doing for the BCS:Bossanova -  One of the few times you will not

Lacking anything remotely interesting to say, I’ll resort to two old standbys: sports and the weather. And because I know that City Sports Team played their sport so terrible this season, I’ll skip the sports and talk about the weath

Email of the week from a friend I don't know named "Bro", who has this idea that topless darlings with unnatural hair color are going to follow him to the tranquil, unspoiled beaches of the lower Sandy River for some sexing up on a mass

Sweeping dust off the moldy oldies updating others with long over due info, BarFly's thankless word slaves have given us the following:Whiskey Bar & Lounge Valentine's Top of the Hill Tavern Tanuki Sweet Masterpiece Station 66 Slapp

Like every other dork, I love Lost and I'm looking to get my drink on with other Losties for the season finale, if for no other reason than to take a shot of whiskey and cuss at you for spewing inane theories. I'm sure other people are as wel

I could fill up our server's disk space with rants about OLCC's contradictive existence and mind-numblingly retarded rationale behind, well, everything they do. The OLCC's new happy hour rules basically state "You can advertise price

April 17th 6pm @ East BurnOld friends of mine are releasing their family beer for public consumption. I've heard it is good stuff, so come and drink with me.

This just in from the folks at East Burn:~April Fool's Brewers for Boobs! This Thursday, April 1st 7:00pm-10pm EastBurn Annex  It's a Brew-off with Laurelwood, Lompoc, Hopworks, Full Sail, and Everybody's Brewing.Join us for a tastin

Julian at PdxPipeline just launched a site that documents all the wonderful Portland tattoos. It is quite addictive, even just looking at the photos. http://tattoosofportland.com/

I'll preface by saying this: I'm not against Yelp. It is a wonderful concept, similar to what helped build BarFly. It is far too bad that it has got to the point where I end up stereotyping all Yelpers as self-entitled glory whores. You might

I'm not a football fan myself, but the University of Oregon/Oregon State civil war game is always a big deal, particularly when the outcome determines which team goes to the Rose Bowl. So, for our football watching friends, here is a list of plac

Is the sound of your great uncle chewing on ham gristle while slurping cranberry sauce making you want to puke? Never fear, BarFly's compiling a list of all bars open on Thanksgiving in Portland. Please email info@barflypdx.com if you work at a p

According to KATU, those neo-prohibitionists at MADD along with some make-a-name-for-myself-the-children! legislator are re-visiting the idea of sobriety checkpoints. Despite the oversized logs that were overdue for removal, this legislator instead o

I'm being totally redundant for posting link about todays raid on Ibiza, called to my attention by the story on Willy Week, and first reported by Portland Food And Drink.I did email some employees in attempt to get the scoop.

I am not a beer guy at all. I don't know if it's the beer geek stigma that turns me off, or the simple fact that I hate beer. However, I must confess, I tried Double Moutain IRB last night at East Burn while smoking on their heated, covered s

75 years ago, the dark days of prohibition, allowing sweet, sweet alcohol to legally flow through our veins once again.As such, today the hard drinking city of Portland is celebrating Repeal Day. Devil's Point is having a celebration.So is Teardr

As word on the street has it, Green Dragon is selling to Rogue Brewery. While I've never been much of a beer guy, Green Dragon has been nothing but friendly to us here at BarFly. I wish those guys the best of luck. More here, here, and here

Jack Bog posted that the Hung Far Low sign has been removed, effectively eliminating one of the few symbols of once greatness that still exist Chinatown. Not that Chop Suey is the culturally relevant to China proper, but as historic Chinese-Americana

The 34th-39th sector of Hawthorne has always been a little barren as far as BarFly acceptable drinkeries. Now I finally have reason to drink in that area again. The affable Tyson Rogoway, who in the recent past became the proud new owner of Nick'

Spotted at Tiny's on MLK today: Tiny's will be closing at 6pm on Mon 8.25 for our staff meeting. Just thought we'd let you know since the Oregonian won't be writing an article about it, just like they do every time Starbucks closes fo

Please keep an eye out on the road and if you're perusing the best of craigslist or whatever for my brand new mint green 2009 Kymco People 150cc scooter. Some

The OLCC, Oregon's #1 drug dealer with a vice grip monolopy on the supply, has finally given up their ham radio in favor of, get this, a blog! You'll find it chock full of two posts that justify it's continued contradictory existence. For

Nothing makes my day more fun than finding out that BarFlyMag.com has been hacked, which is why the website was down all goddamn day. Argh! As far as I can tell, no contact information was compromised, but I'll be digging around deeper to make su

After many months of being totally closed, Nick's Coney Island has re-opened, at least according to BarFly Execubabe Kris Strackbein. I think I'm going to try to swing by there tonight and get the full scoop.

Ever had that problem where you get totally hammered, get all responsible and take a cab home, then realize that picking up your car the next morning is going to be a total pain in the ass? RideOn Portland solves that problem. Unfortunately, the serv

In case you are in the group of people not in the know, Crush now has "That's So Gay" trivia on Tuesdays at 7pm:  As many of you know, Michele and I are starting a trivia night called "that's so gay trivia". Topi

This just in from Portland's finest DUII avoidance taxi service: Come celebrate the 75th anniversary of the end of prohibition in Oregon. You are invited to a Ride On Benefit Party. Monday April 7th at 7 pmThe Green Dragon 928 SE 9thAll proceeds

Gotta love B-side for putting together Lady Arm Wrestling bouts. Julian at PDXpipeline has the scoop along with an over the top lady on lady arm rasslin' picture.

Electronica-philes rejoice! Last I heard Pi-REM was closed down by the proprietor due to a career change. Seems there was either a change of heart or a change of ownership at least according to the email I received. It appears that there has been a r

Sigh. Here is the scoop on today's move. Dear Virginia Cafe Extended Family, The time has finally come to say adieu to Park Avenue on Monday, February 25th around 4pm. We will be moving up to 10th avenue via a bar stool crawl up Yamhill then le

That's right, bask in my  cheery glow as you ride school bus with 40 of your closest drinking buddies to drinkeries in the eastern outskirts, then trudge on up to the mountain for slightly off balance skiing/snowboarding at Mt. Hood Ski Bowl

After this mornings rant about the Dixie Tavern Dipshit DJ, I was so angry that I just had to blow off virtual steam by wasting time surfing sites like Fark.com. Lo and behold, there be a link to BikePortland's article about the stolen ghost bike

As much as I personally dislike spending time in Concept Entertainment Group's, uh, concepts, I'll never really complain about their existence...until the time comes when their hired hands try to wreck my website and waste my time by writing

That soy ship sinking into the sea of industrial waste known as Pirate's Tavern has reinvented itself into a smoke free vegan flesh palace Casa Diablo. I assume this name change came about after a lengthy study indicating that the Devil themes ha

Whoever runs the Yen Ha myspace page has been posting quotes he/she has overheard there. It reminded me of how much I love the Yen Ha. The pearls of wisdom contained within it's dark, kind of pee smelling walls are priceless. Yen Ha on beauty:

For the sake of the staff who witnessed the incident that this post was previously about, I felt it was in better taste to remove said post. For those who read it, yes the information I posted was entirely true.

Earlier in the month the Tribune reported that Nick's Coney Island was for sale, which inspired one blogger to lament both the loss this particular establishment as well as the loss of blue collarness in SE Portland. Perk up buddy, rumor has it t

According to BarFly gossip and a couple of inside sources, the Green Room lost it's lease will be shutting down on the 19th. Word on the street is that the owner doesn't want a bar in the space anymore, and I'm wondering what kind of mons

According to murmurs on local Portland foodie boards, a new restaurant/tequila bar has opened on NW 23rd called Casa del Matador. I'm preparing myself for the inevitable: Teaming hordes of clueless dipshits lacking the mental ability to successfu

I don't know why I slacked so hard on setting this up, but now those of you with BarFly accounts can upload photos of your favorite bars and tie them to the listings so that readers can see what the bar looks like. Awesome, eh? I've got an ex

While some of us were destroying brain cells celebrating the 2008 years since the death of Jeebus at the vile hands of the Heevrews, Kenric Ashe of dBMonkey.com was working his delectable ass off to provide you people with an easy way to update your

This just in from the folks at Pi-REM. It is with a saddened heart that we'd like to inform you that Pi-rem will shut its doors to the public on December 16. Due to some shifting priorities and personal choices - we deem it best not to continue.

Ever wanted to own a larger venue? Do you balls of steel and an extra 50k to throw down on the table? That looks like Bossanova for sale for around $350,000. Here is the listing on craigslist.

There is a tear in my beer because of this news. Now if only the OLCC would spontaneously combust and be sent to the temperance afterlife, we'd be making some progress.Just for fun, spend sometime browsing the Prohibition Party (which seems to be

I usually spend my Sunday nights watching reruns of Matlock, beating other people's children, and making robots out of yarn. This past Sunday, however, I spend my time drinking copious amounts of booze at Mt. Tabor Legacy (courtesy of Bendistille

Nothing says latently gay like an urban cowboy line dancing to Achy Breaky Heart under his very own 1000 gallon mirror tiled cowboy hat. If that urban cowboy is you, you might be interested in purchasing one...but where, oh where in Portland could yo

It is a well known fact that I'm a misogynist with mommy issues and I seek to constantly exploit women to satisfy my own lust for power. I can't even talk about vaginas without muttering "Beav" under my breath then busting into cack

We've gone live with a new happy hour tool I've been working on. We still have a huge set of incomplete or inaccurate data (damn bars always change their times), but hopefully, this one works better than previous version.You can search by tim

As Jen and I work feverishly to upload every article from Issue#1 to Issue #58 of the print version, I couldn't help but take a break to marvel at these excerpts from the Matador Employee Logbook. If our accompanying graphic representation isn

Hands down, the most controversial bar listed on our site has been Outlaws. Some of the most entertaining threads have involved catty RollerGirls, and douchey-douchertons, flaming idiots, ex-employees, and bands trying to promote themselves. To their