Dear GLAAD: Leave Susan Sarandon ALOOOOOONE!
About this... Rocky Horror star Susan Sarandon thinks the controversy over Glee's usage of the word "tranny" is overblown.... GLAAD fires back: "The word 'tra—y' has become an easy punch line in...
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New Plug-ins to Handle Your Social IneptitudeNew Plug-ins to Handle Your...
You're out at the bars. You're drunk. It's 2 am. The world starts spinning. Suddenly, you're sitting in front of your blurry computer screen, holding a half eaten sandwich and not wearing pants. The...
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New Mean Jeans SingleNew Mean Jeans Single
Portland's Best Party Band (TM), the Mean Jeans, have a new 7" split single, "RU Mental?" The vinyl is available in fine record stores now. And as with every song in the Jeans' catalog, "RU Mental" is...
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The Most Uncomfortable Shoes in The WorldThe Most Uncomfortable Shoes in The...
There's a good chance I'm going to die from Morton's Neuroma, guys. I'm not joking! The main cause of it is high heeled shoes, and at 5'1" I'm not going to stop wearing them anytime soon. In fact, as...
View ArticleDescendents Return?
Shit, let's keep the pop punk skateboard rolling. The Descendents just played a show in Texas! Via Brooklyn Vegan. Fun Fun Fun Fest getting the Descendents as a last minute headliner fill-in for Devo...
View ArticleGutwrenching Update in Pedestrian Crash
Yesterday I sounded off about poorly designed roads and dangerous drivers who cause pedestrian fatalities. But this update from yesterday's three-person crash is worth a moment of silence:The Portland...
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Blazers vs. Pistons - Hot Live Blog ActionBlazers vs. Pistons - Hot Live Blog...
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the Detroit Pistons. The big news around these parts is the drama surrounding Brandon Roy's sharp decline as of late. Following an...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Carl Sagan.
I'm hardly the first person to post this video today, on what would've been Carl Sagan's 76th birthday. But still. More at John Boswell's Symphony of Science site. [ Subscribe to the comments on this...
View ArticleI Love Television
Welcome to all of my new Tea Party readers! by Wm. Steven Humphrey As you may have noticed, we had an election last week! And while this particular election may not have turned out exactly as I...
View ArticleBirth Write
Sarah Glidden helps you Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less. by Jane Carlen "NOT A BRAINWASH" is the unofficial slogan of Birthright Israel, an organization that has sent over 250,000 Jews, ages 18...
View ArticleTrial by Teens
Oregon eyes expanding a program that puts young offenders on trial in front of their peers. by Sarah Mirk RICARDO GONZALEZ, a Gresham high school senior, was telling a room full of high-ranking state...
View ArticleHall Monitor
Mayor Sam Adams' gun control laws are finally back in the light of day. THEY'RE BAAA-AAACK. After fine-tuning them in city hall's darkest, most secret places for the past three months, Mayor Sam Adams...
View ArticleDognapping, Performance Art, and the NEA
Profile Theatre's one-man show Chesapeake. by Alison Hallett HERE'S A VOCAB WORD: "neoteny," defined by Wiki as "the retention, by adults in a species, of traits previously seen only in juveniles."...
View ArticleA Catalog of Punk
Destroy All Movies!!! is an obsessive, obsessed guide to punks in the movies. by Ned Lannamann ZACK CARLSON AND BRYAN CONNOLLY got the wild notion to write a guide to every movie that ever contained a...
View ArticleGetting Served
Filing a federal lawsuit, the family of Aaron Campbell serves a sharp rebuke to the Portland Police Bureau. by Denis C. Theriault WITH SHARP WORDS for the Portland Police Bureau over its handling of...
View ArticleGimme Shelter
City hall wants to stomp out our "Pornland" reputation by spending $285,000 on shelter beds for young sex-trafficking victims. by Sarah Mirk PORTLAND AND MULTNOMAH County are taking baby steps toward...
View ArticleChasing the Song
David Dondero gets his muse back in Portland. by Ned Lannamann "CHASED THE SONG on up to Oregon," goes a line in "Caught the Song," from David Dondero's latest record, # Zero with a Bullet. Dondero,...
View ArticleUp & Coming
This Week's Noteworthy Shows THURSDAY 11/11 NATASHA KMETO, GRAINTABLE, NICKY MASON (Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison) Read our article on Natasha Kmeto. BLUE GIANT, BOBBY BARE JR. (Alberta Rose Theatre,...
View ArticleA Hallmark Spank Fantasy
Welcome to the Rileys' halfhearted grittiness. by Ned Lannamann DOUG RILEY (James Gandolfini) has a troubled marriage, to say the least: His wife Lois (Melissa Leo) is nearly catatonic, having not...
View ArticleMorning People
Early to bed, early to rise with Morning Glory. by Marjorie Skinner MORNING NEWS PROGRAMS exist in a parallel universe, made by people who keep antisocial working hours and watched by...? Morning...
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