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Ducking an invitation? Yes, but it's okay. Amanda Fritz, it seems, has declined Randy Leonard's offer to light the new Portland, Oregon sign. Turns out the hot-and-heavy Oregon Ducks are playing their...
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Black Friday at Tender Loving Empire
If you're not already up and out there chasing deals and blazing through your holiday gift list/credit limit, I'll be here with my cats and my leftovers putting up more gift ideas for your Black...
View ArticleO They Will Know We Are Christians...
...by our emails: Seriously, you fucking piece of shit. I don't care if gay kids kill themselves. I'm glad they kill themselves. I don't like gay people. Homosexuality is fucking stupid and is an...
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Cabbies, Mohawks, Turkeys, and You
While you weren't looking, Bishops has gone and further expanded their astonishingly quickly multiplying empire. They're opening two new locations (one in Bridgeport, the other at Orenco Station,...
View ArticleRepeating Our Warning From Earlier This Month: Parking Isn't Free Today
It was only 23 days ago, but for all intents and purposes, November 3 really was a lifetime ago. Bristol Palin hadn't been bounced from Dancing With The Stars. Tom Hughes, not yet the Metro president,...
View ArticleBikini Girl Lets TSA Cop a Feel
A girl dressed in a bikini practically dares the TSA to check her out for any T&A explosives. Ummm... problem here. SHE'S CUTE. If she really wants to see someone stage a protest, then I should...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Gwar, The Taxpayers, Climber
GWAR, THE CASUALTIES, INFERNAEON, MOBILE DEATH CAMP (Roseland, 8 NW 6th) Gwar is known for elaborate costumes, dousing fans with fake blood, and ridiculing topical celebrities and political figures....
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Give and Get: Souchi and Grace House
Should you be lucky enough to do any shopping at Souchi today or the rest of the month, consider bringing with you clean, lightly used clothing for men, women and children, to be donated to Grace...
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Emily Katz at The Clean Up
There are about five more hours left of Clean Up At The Cleaners—get down there y'all! One of the vendors is Emily Katz, a multi-talented force to be reckoned with. She's got "embroidered ties for...
View ArticleSL Letter of the Day: No Easy Answer
I've got a sad problem. My sex life with my husband of 12 years, total of 15 together, was hot for a few years, but dropped off when I started antidepressants ten years ago—can't orgasm, very low...
View ArticleIt's a Disney's Gummi Bears Kind of Day
If you're like me you are so full of gravy and stuffing and pie and... what's that bird called? Whatever, you know what I'm talking about. Anyway, I think I just want to lie here for the rest of the...
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Save Some for Una
Una's not playing the Black Friday game, but they are taking 20% off almost all clothing accessories tomorrow and Sunday, so if you're sitting out today's sells, glumly sure that you're missing fist...
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Blazers vs. Hornets - Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers welcome the New Orleans Hornets in a spirited game of five-on-five basketball. Earlier this week Joel Przybilla declared he was 90% certain he'd...
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FBI Sting: Man Arrested in Plot to Blow Up Pioneer Square
A Corvallis man who parked what he believed was a van full of explosives outside Pioneer Courthouse Square—with a plan to blow the place sky high during the city's people-packed annual tree lighting...
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Mohamed Mohamud, The Affidavit: "I Will Be a Martyr in the Highest Chambers...
The FBI affidavit in the case of Mohamed Mohamud is full of interesting details about allegedly planning the attack on Pioneer Square. This is the document the FBI had to present to a judge to get the...
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Why Was the FBI Interested in Mohamed Mohamud?
Among the big questions surrounding the FBI's Pioneer Square bombing sting is how Mohamed Osman Mohamud even got on their radar in the first place. They may have gotten a nudge, some are reporting....
View ArticleFox News on Portland Bomb Plot: "Can You Imagine the Psychic Damage?"
Three Saturday morning anchors mix in a splash of righteousness and fear-mongering—they totally play up that it was at a CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING—with rare heaps of praise for the federal authorities...
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Is this because it's a Christmas tree? Friday, during the Pioneer Courthouse Square tree lighting ceremony, a 19 year-old named Mohamed Osman Mohamud tried to ignite what he believed to be an active...
View ArticleTonight in Music: The Frames, Paper or Plastic, Wampire, and more
THE FRAMES (Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell) Remember that movie-musical Once, starring the Frames' frontman/sweetheart/baby cheeks/widdle ickle cutesybottom Glen Hansard? I wish I didn't: Once was...
View ArticleFamiliar Script Emerges in Stories About Terror Stings
If it feels like you've been reading more and more stories about government-assisted terrorism plots—notwithstanding the one close to home that we're all talking about—that's because you really have...
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