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Fortune Magazine Blows Up Xboxes
Dan Saelinger Alright, I will admit to being something of a PlayStation fanboy. It's not that I hate Microsoft's Xbox, the system just doesn't have the exclusive games that I want to play. The...
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Photos from Sunday's Muslim and Interfaith Peace Rally
The leaders of the Corvallis mosque that was firebombed after Mohamed Mohamud's arrest organized a peace rally yesterday in Pioneer Square. The hour-long "Interfaith Peace Solidarity Rally" had a...
View ArticleThe NBA: Where Fail Happens
The backstory is this: Last week Paul Piece of the Boston Celtics hit a game winning shot against the New York Knicks. Dude was stoked. But not as stoked as teammate Nate Robinson, who decided to jump...
View ArticleA Very Beverly Hills, 90210 Christmas
Have a Merry Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas...
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Fire Frashour Campaign Speaks On Ferguson Shooting, Cop Talks
Denis C. TheriaultKathryn Cates of the Fire Frashour campaign, amid a horde of news cameras.In a few hours, we might learn whether the city's contentious contract talks with the Portland Police...
View ArticleTron: Legacy: Crappy Movie, Cool Halfpipe
Perhaps over the weekend, you were inundated with critical hate spew for Tron: Legacy: It's pretty to look at but intensely boring. Olivia Wilde is way hot but the lead actor is meh. Supposedly the...
View ArticleDo Not Kiss the Monkey
Look. I'm happy that you and your family have found a way to entertain yourselves—and sure, it's funny... at first. But when you ask the kid to "kiss the monkey"? That reminds me WAY too much of the...
View ArticleDavid O. Russell Confronted by Creepy Uncharted Fan
Fans of the PS3 game Uncharted were upset when it was released that Mark Wahlberg was cast as the main character Nathan Drake. David O. Russell, the film's director—who's famous for films like Three...
View ArticlePortland Copwatch to Sam Adams: More Questions to Consider on the JTTF
Mayor Sam Adams is angling for a January decision on whether Portland should rejoin the Joint Terrorism Task Force—a question that took on new urgency last month after a Corvallis man thought he had...
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YACHT and Fred Schneider Share Some Holiday Fruitcake
This is the type of story that would be weird if it involved any band but YACHT. Turns out that the B-52s' Fred Schneider steps away from the love shack from time to time with a little project on the...
View ArticleSL Letter of the Day: Cautionary Tale
I'm sending this email from a demo phone at the phone store where I work because I just had my Android phone—complete with the Savage Love app—stolen by a customer. And while that sucks, I am not...
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First Concept Art from Battlestar Babies.
Despite the fact that Battlestar Galactica ended with a drawn-out whimper and no one gave two shits about its prequel spin-off Caprica, Syfy's going back to the well a second (or is that third?) time...
View Article"Desperate" Guy With Weapon Holed Up in Reed Parking Lot
Reed College has been on alert for the past hour and a half, after Portland Police followed a man they believe to be armed onto the East Campus parking lot. "Police gave us a description of the person...
View ArticleNot Invited Back: Drink Minumums
I've spent the past couple days putting together year-end lists for the New Year's issue of the Mercury. (Yes, we editors really leap to some outrageous creative heights in December. Stay tuned for my...
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Blazers vs. Bucks - Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers welcome the Milwaukee Bucks. As is customary around these parts, here is a list of Blazers players that will not be playing tonight: Marcus...
View ArticleSL Letter of the Day: The Electric Company You Keep
I have to point out something. The speaker on behalf of Body Electric on this week's "Savage Lovecast" insisted that their program is "not just for gay men," but then went on to specifically describe...
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Film Shorts
In which we hit it and quit it. 127 Hours "Lesson: Don't buy the cheap, made-in-China multi-tool," Aron Ralston (James Franco) says to himself in Danny Boyle's 127 Hours. It's a solid observation—as...
View ArticleThe Year in Lists
We ask pretty much every single person involved in Portland's music scene for their top five albums of 2010, here is what they said. IT'S THAT TIME of the year again. At the end of yet another...
View ArticleGirl, Interrupted
More than 15 years after the publication of Girl, Blake Nelson is serializing a sequel. by Alison Hallett BLAKE NELSON'S Girl is a seminal Portland novel: Set in the early '90s, it's about a suburban...
View ArticleSOLD OUT
2011 style forecasts from Portland fashion industry experts. by Marjorie Skinner 'TIS THE SEASON for year-end lists, but in fashion it's more important (and exciting) to look forward than back. So we...
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