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Make sure you wear your rubbers. Which is always a good idea, except this time I'm talking about the thunderstorms (maybe?) and the big ol' blustery winds about to visit the metropolitan area. You'll...
View ArticleTonight in Music: The Vaselines, the Migrant
THE VASELINES, DUM DUM GIRLS (Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell) When the Vaselines reunited for a few shows last year, it came off more as a genuine desire to play those old songs again than a simple...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Women
WOMEN, MANCHILD (Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) Two years after their stellar self-titled debut, Canadian indie genre-smashers Women have given us Public Strain, apparently after misplacing their memo...
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Patty Mills Gets a JobPatty Mills Gets a Job
Quick, call Lars Larson, another immigrant has crossed our borders and took a job from a hardworking 'Merican! Australian Patty Mills just took the Blazers' final roster seat, and guaranteed contract,...
View ArticleIt Gets Better: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
I love this guy... In case you missed it at the time: Trumka's speech to a Steelworkers convention during the 2008 election was amazing. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleWin Tickets to the Grindhouse Film Fest's Lucio Fulci Double Feature!
Tomorrow night at the Hollywood Theatre, the Grindhouse Film Fest is showing not one but two films by Italian gore-meister Lucio Fulci: 1979's Zombie and 1981's House by the Cemetery ! House by the...
View ArticleIt's Time to Play: "GUESS! WHERE! THIS! GUY! IS!"
Hello Blogtownies, and welcome to our newest online game show we like to call, "GUESS! WHERE! THIS! GUY! IS!" The rules are simple: Watch the following video, and then? "GUESS! WHERE! THIS! GUY! IS!"...
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Tonight at Powell's: Mark BittmanTonight at Powell's: Mark Bittman
Cookbook author/New York Times columnist Mark Bittman is at Powell's tonight, touring with his latest, The Food Matters Cookbook, which expands on the recipes included in last year's Food Matters. The...
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Attention, Ramen Addicts!
The folks at traveling ramen show Boke Bowl are setting up camp at Cruzroom (2338 NE Alberta) tonight from 5-9 pm, for the second in their series of Ramen Nights. The first took place at SE's Globe...
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Well Now That's a Suspicious Vehicle.Well Now That's a Suspicious Vehicle.
Tipster Wesley Pasqualle send in these photos he took of a truck and trailer he saw in the Fred Meyer parking lot at SE 82nd and Foster. Now, clearly, I don't know anything about this vehicle or its...
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She & Him, Live at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 10/22/10She & Him, Live...
Zooey! M! Together on one stage and in Portland for the first time ever! So, how'd it go? Our very own Ned Lannamann lit a candle in his Zooey worship alter to show his approval for the show—if he...
View ArticleChristian Christian Pastor to Non-Hater Christians: Speak The Fuck Up, People
A Christian pastor tells his co-religionists pretty much the same shit I've been telling them for years—that their faith's hateful reputation is largely their own fault, that they have to learn to...
View ArticleEl Guincho's "Bombay"
Terrific song, and a video to match. For a little background on "Bombay" and El Guincho's latest offerings, check out It's a Hit by the Stranger's Michaelangelo Matos. Because of a number of exposed...
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Tonight: Natalie Jeremijenko Speaks at PSUTonight: Natalie Jeremijenko Speaks...
Artist/technologist Natalie Jeremijenko is a serious badass, and she's speaking tonight at 7:30 pm for PSU's MFA Monday Night Lecture Series (free to all!). Equal parts artist and engineer,...
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John Canzano Gets Hysterical About the BlazersJohn Canzano Gets Hysterical...
Damn you, Nancy Kerrigan! Hey, John Canzano has a new column! About the Blazers! Clear off the mantle, someone is winning some awards for this one. Let's have a look: NBA season opener. Rose Garden...
View ArticleMorning Teleportation's Living Room Performance
Glacial Pace Recordings—that's Isaac Brock's label, duh—signees Morning Teleportation invited the cameras of Into the Woods to their humble abode for this live version of "Crystalline." Turns out that...
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Good Morning News!Good Morning News!
Child Soldier Pleads Guilty at Guantanamo: After nine years in US military custody, 24-year-old Canadian Omar Khadr pleads guilty to avert a trial. Don't Tread on Me! Rand Paul supporter literally...
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Win Tickets to Kate Nash!
We are giving away tickets to see the mighty Kate Nash on Monday November 1 at the Wonder Ballroom. Click on over to End Hits for your chance to win. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Win Tickets to Kate Nash!Win Tickets to Kate Nash!
If you don't love Kate Nash, you are a monster and we can never be friends. But for the rest of us non-monsters, let us rejoice that the cheekiest of all Brits is passing this way on Monday November 1...
View ArticleSL Letter of the Day: Mom, Dad—There's Something I Don't Need to Tell...
I'm an 18-year-old girl who has been dating a 20-year-old guy for about a year and a half now. We get along really well, and I enjoy being with him. Not too long ago, I decided I wanted a vibrator to...
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