Storytelling, Now with Ice Cream
Jared Goodman’s Morgan St. Theater brings the two together. by Zahir Janmohamed Jared Goodman has grown accustomed to the skepticism: A night of storytelling and ice cream for $39 per person? In a...
View ArticleA Visit to Shawarma Square
A visit to Shawarma Square. by Zahir Janmohamed Many years ago, when I was backpacking across the Middle East, I discovered there was a subject that divided its citizens. This time it wasn’t about...
View ArticleDrink This!
On the hunt for Portland’s best chai. by Zahir Janmohamed The secret to making the perfect cup of chai, a roadside vendor in India once told me, is to strain the tea with a used men's undershirt. The...
View ArticleThe Dodo Takes Flight
Shyam Dausoa’s Chez Dodo empire expands to the airport. by Zahir Janmohamed Shyam Dausoa cannot verify the claim, but he figures his business, Chez Dodo, is the only food cart or restaurant in the...
View ArticleHow Portland Is Driving Away New Residents of Color
Portland isn’t taking care of their people of color—so I left. by Zahir Janmohamed At a lecture in Portland last October, Isabel Wilkerson—the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who wrote about the great...
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