What Beaverton is "Learning" from Screwing Up With Gay Student Teacher
This week's news lead details how Lewis and Clark grad student Seth Stambaugh got his job back in the Beaverton school district: a winning combination of legal action, staff support, and parent...
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Best Portland Graffiti EverBest Portland Graffiti Ever
... of a horse wearing a suit and cardboard handcuffs. This wheatpaste showed up today outside the Dekum Building and Huber's, Portland's oldest restaurant. Pretty awesome. I'm all for scraping lazy...
View ArticleThe One Where I Swear I Thought I Saw Mark Kozelek in a McDonald's...
It took a few months of seething hatred, but I've now finally figured who this annoying McDonald's "Don't Talk to Me" commercial reminds me of... ...Mark Kozelek from Red House Painters and Sun Kil...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Of Montreal, Best Coast, Super XX Man, and more
OF MONTREAL, JANELLE MONAE (Roseland, 8 NW 6th) Of Montreal's live shows are exuberant, horrifying, delightful things, with their catchy, weird-ass pop serving as the soundtrack for a production that...
View ArticleRepublican Sex and Marriage Advice
Another competitor... ...looks like I'm going to need a green screen if I wanna keep up. One more after the jump. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Garnish Event to Help Tired ClothesGarnish Event to Help Tired Clothes
We all know it's Garnish's Birthday - Happy Fourth! To celebrate they will be offering 25% off everything in the shop during their Birthday Party which runs from 6-8pm at Alberta’s Last Thursday event...
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Counterpoint: Hall of Records is the Best Bar on Belmont.
Hall of RecordsIn Lush Life this week, Ned pans the bar that has taken over half of the deceased It's A Beautiful Pizza spot on Belmont, Hall of Records. Ned is saddened that Hall of Records isn't the...
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Martell Webster, Damaged Goods?Martell Webster, Damaged Goods?
Getty ImagesI'm no doctor, but he looks just fine in this picture. Ruh-oh! It was recently announced that former Portland Trail Blazer Martell Webster would have to undergo surgery to repair a disk in...
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I (Almost) Had Sex with Christine O'Donnell and All I Got Was This Lousy...
GAWKERBorn-again ladybug.JESUS CHRIST! Do we really need to read another dispatch about Christine O'Donnell's sexual proclivities? Really? Why, actually, yes. Yes we do. Because they're weird and...
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What Is A Really Scary Book?What Is A Really Scary Book?
This is a constant question I get working at a bookstore. People are really specific about it, they want a book that will actually scare them. Answers usually range from the humorous (Noam Chomsky,...
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Charles Burns at Powell's—Tonight!Charles Burns at Powell's—Tonight!
Black Hole creator Charles Burns is at the downtown Powell's tonight at 7:30 pm, reading from X'ed Out, the first book in a projected trilogy. I wrote about it here, kind of; it's an as-yet incomplete...
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Something You Won't See On The Mercury's Event CalendarSomething You Won't...
Last night I was forwarded an email entitled "POWERFUL 11:11 GLOBAL LINK UP" filled with promises of amazing opportunities for me, you and everyone else in the world. What was inside was too silly not...
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Tonight: Last ThursdayTonight: Last Thursday
Seth NeefusLook for this one tonight at Together Gallery If any one of your rain-sensing senses are intact, you know we're entering the "I want to jump from one of these very accessible bridges"...
View ArticleDriver Passes Out on NE Alberta
KGW has the story about the carnage left in the path of a driver who passed out on NE Alberta: several parked cars, two bikes, and a bike corral. Sigh, this reminds me of only a few months ago when...
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Theater Season is Upon Us!Theater Season is Upon Us!
Portland Playhouse's TelethonSo fall is here. Or are we in winter now? I think we're still in fall... anyway, we're in the midst of a season in which things are cold and wet, which means us...
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Domestic Violence Killed 49 Oregonians This YearDomestic Violence Killed 49...
About 70 people braved the rain last night, standing amid a downpour just after sunset in leafy Holladay Park for the Portland Women Crisis Line's (PWCL) vigil commemorating Oregonians killed by...
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Jersey Shore's Angelina to Rap on Her Single "I'm Hot"Jersey Shore's Angelina...
Clutching her 15 minutes for dear life, Angelina Pivarnick went on Wendy Williams two days ago to report: 1) That she blames the show for her mother's poor health; 2) She only slept with one dude...
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TOMORROW: Watch the Stewart/Colbert Rally with the Mercury!TOMORROW: Watch...
You needed a reminder... so here is your reminder. GUYS! Join us TOMORROW (Saturday morning, Oct 30) at the Mission Theater to watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's "Rally to Restore Sanity" and...
View ArticleOur City Economy: We Are Muddling Along.
City Council is at a "budget retreat" all day, meaning they're retreating to the council chambers to discuss the lay of the land for the next fiscal year (i.e. "How fucked are we?"). Denis will be...
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The Human Race Wrote Me a Letter.The Human Race Wrote Me a Letter.
No really, look, this letter addressed to "Sara Mirk, The Jerk" arrived yesterday. Please note: American flag upside down: The human race is in distress.The human race is slightly paranoid.The human...
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