Make Plans for Here We Go Magic, Sunday
Proof that Here We Go Magic's 4-tracked bedroom sound translates live: And now you know what to do on Sunday, Halloween proper. All the good parties will be Saturday anyway. I remember, back when we...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Avi Buffalo, Pierced Arrows
AVI BUFFALO, WAMPIRE (Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) Every time I go to my grandparents' house, they ask me to lift something heavy, write HTML code for their computer, or open that jar of...
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Organ Trail: 80s Nostalgia, Zombies And Portland ElitismOrgan Trail: 80s...
The Men Who Wear HatsHighbrow. As Always. Courtesy the least date-rape-prone member of the Gawker empire, io9, comes Organ Trail, a neo-retro rejiggering of The Oregon Trail focused on the zombie...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Laura Veirs, Marnie Stern, Lyrics Born, and more
LAURA VEIRS AND THE HALL OF FLAMES, LESLIE STEVENS AND THE BADGERS, LED TO SEA (Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) See My, What a Busy Week!. MARNIE STERN, AGESANDAGES, SIELAFF/SCHONBERG (Mississippi Studios,...
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Roseburg Paper Prints: Dudley Wins!Roseburg Paper Prints: Dudley Wins!
Ah, yes, a dispatch from the alternate reality of Roseburg, where a small town paper struggled with an election night print deadline. Thanks to Roseburg native Cody for sending this in! [ Subscribe to...
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Clean Up at The CleanersClean Up at The Cleaners
Black Friday can be a dicey situation, for sure. The crowds, the pushing, the corporate desperation, the protesters—not my idea of a relaxing, thoughtful shopping experience. However, a newly...
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So Many PDX High-Schoolers Doing Shakespeare! So Little Time!So Many PDX...
This weekend is a big weekend for high school thespians here in Portland Oregon. Starting today seven metro-area high school drama departments will gather in PCPA's Winningstad Theater to put on a...
View ArticleA Woman Has Needs
The Smoking Gun brings us a story of sexual demands, alleged threats of violence, and horrible desperation from West Virginia. Melissa Lee Williams, 41, is facing assault and weapons charges after...
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It's Happening Tonight!It's Happening Tonight!
HOMECOMING QUEEN—While she got her start in Seattle, Laura Veirs belongs to PDX. In the past year Veirs has delivered both a child and her best recording to date, July Flame. Get ready to swoon like...
View ArticleMore Gretchen Jones, More Warren Etheredge
Thanks to the internet, we can let our interviewees ramble on as long as they please, and while we clip them down to tidy word-counted increments in print, they go on (and on and on) in full glory...
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This Week's Mercury Film Section.This Week's Mercury Film Section.
DUE DATE (and/or PLANES, TRAINS, & AUTOMOBILES): This time there's a dog! DUE DATE What's that? Planes, Trains, & Automobiles is screening tonight at the Bagdad? THE NORTHWEST FILM & VIDEO...
View ArticleMagazine Steals Articles, Claims the Internet Is Public Domain
Consumerist has the story: A writer was surprised to discover that an article she wrote for a website in 2005 was reprinted wholesale by Cooks (sic) Source Magazine. She contacted Cooks Source and...
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The Most Annoying Song Ever?The Most Annoying Song Ever?
This may be old news (in fact, the original study was was done in the 1996, and resufaced two years ago in Wired), but I'm just getting around to this whole "internet" thing. (Where are the tubes?!)...
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Radioactive Rabbit Found in Wash. Nuclear SiteRadioactive Rabbit Found in...
Blogtownie Todd Menklen passed on a Tri-City Herald story stating that some time in the last week, a radioactive rabbit was trapped, killed and disposed of at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near...
View ArticleDick's House is the New Disney World
In this classic vid, a mom surprises her kids by letting them know they're going to DISNEY WORLD, BAY-BEE! Their reaction is somewhat less than enthusiastic. (Unfortunately, this mom doesn't...
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The Vocoder: from WWII to Hip HopThe Vocoder: from WWII to Hip Hop
We love The Sound of Young America, Jesse Thorn's podcast and radio show delivering smart, unadorned interviews with important and eclectic figures in modern artistic culture. Recently Thorn had on...
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Swans Are Coming To Portland!Swans Are Coming To Portland!
The legendary avant-gloom rockers Swans, who reformed this year and released their first studio full-length in 14 years, My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky, just announced yesterday that...
View ArticleKeith Olbermann Suspended for Making Political Beliefs Clear
This is absurd: MSNBC TV host Keith Olbermann was suspended indefinitely on Friday for making campaign donations to three Democratic congressional candidates, apparently in violation of NBC News...
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City Aims to Puts $285K To Build State's First Sex Trafficking ShelterCity...
Saltzman, Sam Adams, and Diane McKeelBig news today from City Hall: Portland City Council will vote next week on whether to put $285,000 from the city's contingency fund toward building the region's...
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