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Steal of the Day: Arrested Development DVD Box Set!
Need an awesome, cheap holiday gift? How about an Arrested Development:The Complete Series DVD box set—regularly $90, now only $27.99 at Amazon. Get it quick, cuz they're going quick. [ Subscribe to...
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Porn Makes a JLA Movie First
Remember those naughty porn companies who keep making Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman porn parodies? Then have I got more news for you! There's a new porn production company in California called...
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Sarah Palin = Michael Vick?
"I am not a moose!"Over at Huffington Post, Aaron Sorkin makes a compelling and satisfyingly dickish case for why Sarah Palin is a monster and he is not: So I don't think I will save my condemnation,...
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Today in "Another Bieber Mystery Solved!"
Remember this? Well, this was because of THIS! BUT OF COURSE IT WAS. Here's the story from the Baltimore Sun: [Director John Waters and Justin Bieber] shared the sofa last week as guests on Britain's...
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week's PHART CHART TOPPER is aldenkelley! Congrats, and look! We've animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart Topper? Toss your art or photos into the Mercury's Flickr pool, and start...
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Gleegasm: The Difference Between an Elf and a Slave
Howdy ho, gleeks! I'm here to talk about last night's Glee holiday special! It looks like it might be the last Glee of the year (can I get confirmation on that?) so let's make it memorable. Speaking...
View ArticleMTV Hates You
The good people at MTV have found a way to ruin New Year's for EVERYONE. (Though I suppose that they've been ruining things for a few years now.) MTV is holding a New Year's Eve special in Times...
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Mercury Charity Auction Item(s) of the Day
As you all know, our annual charity auction is currently online. There are tons of incredible items available for bidding, with all proceeds benefiting the kind souls at the nonprofit Raphael House, a...
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So What Do You Think of The New Timbers Billboards?
By now you've probably seen some of the new billboards that're stirring up interest in the 2011 MLS-ified Timbers, the work of former W+K ad director Jelly Helm (with an assist from OMFG Co., who also...
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View ArticleLetters to the Editor
The pudding-brained hip kids' discussion group will now come to order! ASSHOLEDLY WEAK DEAR MERCURY—Seriously, what ass-holes you are at the Portland Mercury for, in the November 25 edition, giving...
View ArticleEveryone Who Looks Like You
Everyone Who Looks Like You is an exciting performance for the discerning holiday theatergoer. by Noah Dunham It's holiday theater season in Portland—a time in which just about every theater company...
View ArticleIt's Only Rock 'n' Roll, But He Likes It
Keith Richards' new autobiography is winning and pleasingly un-gossipy. by Ned Lannamann WOULD YOU BELIEVE that Keith Richards kept a journal? Yes, Keef—the slurring vampire-junkie rock star who...
View ArticleDon't Call Them Terrorists
Mohamed Osman Mohamud didn't kill anyone. Take a look at another politically motivated Oregon bomb plot that did. by Sarah Mirk WHILE THE 19-YEAR-OLD accused of plotting to bomb Pioneer Courthouse...
View ArticleHe's Gained Control
Oh, Joy Division! Peter Hook Resurrects Unknown Pleasures by Dave Segal "THE MUSIC OF JOY DIVISION was about the death of optimism, of youth," guitarist Bernard Sumner told Jon Savage in an essay...
View ArticleSexy Ballerina Sexytime!
Black Swan: Whoa, that's sexy. Wait—hahaha! Wait—ewww, gross! by Erik Henriksen THOSE EXPECTING BLACK SWAN to be one of the best pictures of 2010 might want to adjust their expectations. While Darren...
View ArticleSad Stories of the Death of Kings
Author Barry Gifford tackles 1960s Chicago in his first YA book. by Courtney Ferguson BETWEEN HIS NUMEROUS collaborations with David Lynch (Wild at Heart, Lost Highway) and a documented love of film...
View ArticleIntroducing Emitown
Welcome to Emi Lenox's diary comic EmiTown. by Alison Hallett LOCAL DIARY COMICS CREATOR Emi Lenox has been documenting her life online for two years in EmiTown (emitown.blogspot.com), an innovatively...
View ArticleI Love Television™
The 10 Most (Un)Fascinating People of 2010. by Wm. Steven Humphrey Do not mark your calendar! On Thursday, December 9, at 10 pm on ABC, Barbara Walters will be revealing her choices for the "10 Most...
View ArticleThe Food Cart War? Not Quite...
The city's crackdown on food carts is serious, but it's hardly shaping up as a "war." by Denis C. Theriault IS PORTLAND DECLARING WAR on its food carts? That question loomed large last week for...
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