Portland Makes It Easier to NOT Pay For Leaf Removal
The Portland Bureau of Transportation has a message for the multitudes of Portlanders pissed off about this year's first-ever fee for leaf pickup: We got it. We hear you. Loud and clear. We're really...
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Battle: Los Angeles Looks Awesome, and Also Will Someone Please Spoil the...
SKYLINE If the twist isn't that the aliens are just a race of giant vacuum cleaners, I'm gonna be disappointed. Opening today is the alien-invasion flick Skyline, a film that's supposedly so similar...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Watain, Junip, Mono/Poly, and more
WATAIN, GOATWHORE, BLACK ANVIL (10:30 PM) (Branx, 320 SE 2nd) Rotture's downstairs neighbor Branx has expanded in a huge way. The big room is now a full-time, 600-capacity venue. To kick things off...
View ArticleIn Defense of Heroin
Heroin... h e r o i n... did we write something about heroin lately? Help me out here. From this morning's letter to the editor mailbox: Dear Portland Mercury: Why is it that every media outlet in...
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Portland Study: 22 Percent of Cyclists Injured in a Year.
FLICKRA couple weeks ago as I was getting on my bike outside a cutesy art supply store in SE (no comment), an older woman stopped me and said, "Oh, I don't know how you do that! It's so dangerous!" I...
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New Akron/Family Record: S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT
After spending time on the island of Hokkaido, off the coast of Japan, in a cabin built into the side of an active volcano, partial Portlanders Akron/Family have emerged with a new record that sounds...
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It's Happening Tonight!
GET HUMPY!—Hoorah, it's time for the porniest event of the year! HUMP! 2010 promises the funniest, most wickedly sexy homemade dirty movies made by your friends and neighbors right here in the...
View ArticleFlurry Fashion Show Postponed
I've being adding updates to the Pop-Up Calendar as I get them. Note the date changes for Tricia Martin at cloth/gold FACTORY and a later date for the Flurry show. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11-Flurry: Happy...
View ArticleIn Case You Don't Already Want to Stab Your Face Off, There's This
You know, I've been willing to overlook Glee's faults for quite awhile now, because I truly believe that what they're doing with the overall product is revolutionary. There has NEVER been a show that...
View ArticleMustaches in The Name of Men's Health
Seems like every time you turn around in this town there's occasion to grow a mustache, so it's understandable if you didn't know that November Movember was a dedicated month for men to grow some lip...
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Demi Lovato's Heavy Drinking And Cocaine Use Led To Downfall?
What? No...I find this incredibly hard to believe! For those that don't already know, 18-year-old actress/singer/songwriter/Joe Jonas ex-girlfriend Demi Lovato recently went into rehab due to some...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Neil Young
In honor of his 65th birthday, let's take a second to consider some of Neil Young's more experimental work of the 1980's. From lawsuit-inducing rockabilly album released by Neil Young and The Shocking...
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Oh Yes She Did: Heidi Klum and The Polka-Dotted Mondo Dress
Remember how, during the painfully drawn-out final judging scene of last season's Project Runway Nina Garcia dared Heidi Klum to actually wear the full-length polka-dotted dress of Mondo's she was...
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Download Episode 18 of the Mercury Music Hour
You can do it! You can listen to the Mercury Music Hour when it broadcasts every week at noon on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on 910 AM, on HD radio at 94.7 Too, and streaming online at 947.fm. You...
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This Week's Mercury Film Section.
FOUR LIONS Finally, a comedy about terrorism! FOUR LIONS My favorite phrase in this week's paper: "the confused, chucklefucked faces of terrorism." UNSTOPPABLE Steve says it's so bad it's good, but to...
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Tonight in Music
Alberta Rose Theatre—Bryan Free, The Dimes, Pancake Breakfast, 8 pm, $10-12 The Artistery—Malaikat Dan Singa, JP Jenkins, John Krausbauer, Helll, Hungry Ghost, 8 pm, $6, all ages Backspace—Water &...
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"P" Is For "President." Also "Plagiarist."
Is anybody really surprised by this? You are? Then you're a little dumb, aren't you? Apparently George W. Bush's first decision when sitting down to "write" his "memoir," Decision Points, was this:...
View ArticleProudly Presenting the Greatest News Story of All Time
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View ArticleTonight's Nightmare Today
Okay, Japan! Now you're just fucking with us! YOU HAVE NO INTENTION OF MAKING A REALISTIC HUMAN ROBOT! You just want to create these... these... weird, creepy things that look kind of human-ish but...
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Comment of the Week: Cat Friday Edition
This week's Gold Star goes to Blogtown's cuddliest commenter, Joneser, for her comment on my cat show post this morning*: The sentence "I don't know if I like a cat or not until I've watched...
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