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Pop-Up Shop: Crafty Wonderland
We all know by now thanks to Marjorie's posts that the Portland Pop-Up shops are in full effect. I went over to Crafty Wonderland this afternoon to get a good look before their Grand Opening Party +...
View ArticleYoutube Play
Recently the Guggenheim teamed up with Youtube to create Youtube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video— an exhibit of films that originated online. The videos in the bi-yearly showcase— currently on view...
View ArticleRockstar Games Releases First Trailer For L.A. Noire
Rockstar Games, they of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption fame, have long been working on a game called L.A. Noire. Not a lot is known about it, and what you might imagine from the name seems...
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Amazon Pulls Second Round of Pedophilic Books, Concedes to Censorship?
Until Thursday morning, the frankly-titled, self-published e-book The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover's Code of Conduct was available for purchase on Amazon.com, and late Friday...
View ArticleTonight in Music: PDX Pop Now Benefit, Built to Spill, Mighty Ghosts, and more
PDX POP NOW BENEFIT: GUIDANCE COUNSELOR, WELCOME HOME WALKER, ONUINU, STARPARTY (Backspace, 115 NW 5th) Unlike most guidance counselors (AKA responsibility police), Portland's own Guidance Counselor's...
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Rich kids: Ever fantasize about moving to NYC but wonder how much it would cost you to live in how shitty of a neighborhood? Behold. Time to pay the bills! Earlier this week, an Obama-appointed panel...
View ArticleClergy Send Letter Backing Sam Adams' Proposed Gun Laws
A group of Portland religious leaders sent a letter to the Portland City Council on Friday mostly expressing support for Mayor Sam Adams' ambitious package of anti-gun-crime laws—due for a vote...
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Sass Attack!
OMG! OMG! OMG! I can't believe what I just read on Tavi "the style rookie" Gevinson's blog! Miss Tavi and Jane Pratt, founding editor and then EIC of Sassy, are joining forces to "start a magazine for...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Benoit Pioulard, Candy Claws
BENOÎT PIOULARD, CINEMA VERITE, CHARLES STANYAN, PIONEER (Valentine's, 232 SW Ankeny) Bending and shifting like sounds of nature, the recordings of BenoÎt Pioulard—the alter ego of Portland artist Tom...
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Sharing is caring! Right, gang? In the Oregon House of Representatives, Democrats and Republicans are starting down the awkward road toward navigating their 30-30 membership split in the chamber....
View ArticleThe TSA vs Your Junk, Sanity
The ridiculous security theater that our government puts on at airports has recently taken on a new, more ball-grabbing, yet no more effective tack. Seems people were opting out of the TSA's fancy new...
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PREDICTION: The New Muppet Movie Will Be Great.
/Film Over the weekend, /Film got a peek at one of the sets for the new Muppet movie, written by Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller and directed by Flight of the Conchords'...
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The ethics trial of Rep. Charles B. Rangel hit a bit of a snag today when the defendant walked out, saying he no longer had enough money to afford a lawyer. WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT??? "Lame duck...
View ArticleMore in Decemberists News: Tour! Conan!
The Decemberists have announced a spate of tour dates for next year, in support of their new album The King Is Dead, which comes out January 18. The tour includes a February 19 show at the Arlene...
View ArticleMore in Decemberists News: Tour! Conan!
The Decemberists have announced a spate of tour dates for next year, in support of their new album The King Is Dead, which comes out January 18. The tour includes a February 19 show at the Arlene...
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Review: Pro Evolution Soccer 2011
Konami America has never had much love for the world's game, and even for a red-blooded Yank I'm particularly soccer-ignorant. I never played organized soccer as a child, I've never seen the Timbers...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Bad Religion, David Dondero, Megaton Leviathan, and more
BAD RELIGION, BOUNCING SOULS, OFF WITH THEIR HEADS (Roseland, 8 NW 6th) We get it, Bad Religion is OLD. But Greg Graffin & Co. can still deliver a lights-out punk rock show that elevates both mind...
View Articlebe .Portland
Looks like Portland retail is getting organized: be. (to be a part of) Portland’s collaborative success and unique experience. be .Portland is a network of Portland's finest specialty apparel...
View ArticleThanks for Humping at HUMP!
Hey guys! Thanks to everybody who made HUMP! 2010 such a horny, sold-out success this past weekend! Portland provided half of the finalists this year, as well as some of the funniest, skankiest...
View ArticleSL Letter of the Day: Foreign Affairs
I'm a 22-year-old, straight, attractive woman. About a month ago, after having been together for a year, my boyfriend and I opened up our relationship because I'm studying in Denmark this year, and...
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