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Wait... The Worst Post EVER??
Earlier today I wrote a post chastising my co-workers for refusing to practice for our half-time performance dance routine at tonight's Blazer game. This is what Blogtown semi-regular commenter...
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Industry Days at Palace
Good news for Portland fashion industry peeps: Beginning in January, Palace is designating the last Wednesdays of every month as a special discount day for anyone involved in the local industry—20%...
View ArticleMercury Auction Item 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...
View ArticleAlbina: Portland's Ghetto of the Mind!
Wow. Mercury alum Patrick Alan Coleman dug this dusty 1967 KGW out of the Internet archives. It's a blast from the past worth watching. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleSenate Kills "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Repeal
Today in Republican fuckery: The Senate is three votes short of repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell. This is especially galling and out of step because just weeks ago, the Pentagon released the results of...
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Stand Up Comedy Wants to Talk to You
File this under intrigues for the weekend: On Saturday Stand Up Comedy is hosting a "casual talk" given by contemporary artists Snowden Snowden and Louise Keefer titled "GABARDINE. GINGHAM. PAISLEY....
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Stumptown Comics Fest Announces Curation Policy
Interesting news out of the Stumptown Comics Festival this morning. Even after relocating to the Convention Center to accommodate more exhibitors, the fest is still looking at waiting list of over 100...
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Levi Pitters at Black Wagon
Hungry Eyeball"I am faster than 80% of all snakes." Awesome alert! Tonight from 5-7 pm, Black Wagon is debuting a series of paintings by local 13-year-old artist Levi Pitters. Over at Hungry Eyeball...
View ArticleAn Abstinence Education
A political party that was interested in fiscal sanity, reducing the deficit, and eliminating ineffectual federal programs would come out strongly against the $1.5-billion-and-counting abstinence-only...
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You Can Do Anything at Zombocom
These are stressful times. What with all the bombing attempts, the arrival of 4G, holiday shopping scroogery, the new Facebook profile, and whoever keeps outbidding me for Your Face on Every Page of...
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You Voted, We Pretended To Listen While Rolling Our Eyes
I'm spending this rainy, depressing day cold chillin' with Patrick Stewart's MacBeth, but wanted to remind you all of something else you totally need to see. Remember a while back when we put out a...
View ArticleGail O'Hara in Attendance at Tonight's Screening of Strange Powers
Gail O'Hara, the PDX-based co-director of Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields, will be on hand for a Q&A after tonight's 7 pm screening at the Hollywood. O'Hara was a...
View ArticleSo I Guess Someone Stole The Satyricon Marquee?
That's what I'm getting from this I, Anonymous submission. It does sounds like, at least, that the historic monument has found a loving home with someone who appreciates its long and debaucherous...
View ArticleSo I Guess Someone Stole The Satyricon Marquee?
That's what I'm getting from this I, Anonymous submission. It does sounds like, at least, that the historic monument has found a loving home with someone who appreciates its long and debaucherous...
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GAH! The Mercury Charity Auction Ends in 24 Hours! GAH!
GUYS! It's make it or break it time for the Mercury Online Charity Auction because all bidding will come to an end at noon tomorrow (Saturday)! Please open your hearts and wallets because all the...
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What's Next for North Williams?
As the swiftest and least-hilly route to North Portland, N. Williams Ave is essentially the bike highway for North and NE Portland and daily bike ridership along the street has exploded. Six years...
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Not That Anyone Asked...
...But I think my favorite album of 2010 might be A Weather's Everyday Balloons. (Possibly only because I can't bear the twee shame of picking Allo Darlin's debut full-length.) In keeping with...
View ArticleMister Heavenly Plays This Weekend
We told you when Mister Heavenly—the new band with Man Man's Honus Honus, Islands' Nick Thorburn, Modest Mouse's Joe Plummer, and some dude on bass named Michael Cera—dropped through town a couple...
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In The Confectionary Where Al Jolson Is Buried
How do you give a vanilla dessert rhythm? Apparently, you just make it brown. It sprouts big, red cartoonish lips and googly eyes, and breaks into routine as a “Hip Hop cupcake.” What the fuck...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Big Freedia, Will West and the Friendly Strangers, Thee Oh...
BIG FREEDIA, BEYONDADOUBT, ONUINU (Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison) When I was young and in college, I never dreamed of getting breast implants, like other girls. No sir! I wanted ASS implants. See, I went...
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