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On the Vanguard of Police Technology: Flying Spy Drones
News reports out of Miami this week bring tale of a rather dystopian development: The police department in Florida's most telegenic city is ever closer to becoming America's first to deploy...
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BREAKING: Mayor Sam Adams' Top Aide Moving to Transportation Bureau
Wall Street JournalTom Miller and his preferred means of alternative transportation.Big changes in Mayor Sam Adams' world: Sue Keil, Portland's transportation director, is retiring, and the mayor's...
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Barbie's New Body For A New Century
Here's an interesting compare/contrast on the evolution of Barbie doll figures. Not like figurine, like figure. Or actually I guess both: I prefer the modern, more natural looking curves on the...
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For Those (Ladies) About To Rock, We Salute You!
Although heavy metal has long been a dude-dominated genre, plenty of women have formed and fronted metal bands over the years. One zealous librarian/metal fan named Nate has taken it upon himself to...
View ArticlePublication Studio Event This Sunday
Those busy folks at the Publication Studio are in the midst of hosting three book events in three cities with a Portland homecoming scheduled for this Sunday at their base on SW Ankeny at 6:30 p.m....
View ArticleNew Huck Finn Revision Replaces "N-word" with "Hipster"
So NOW are you okay with it?!? Here's an excerpt from newly revised novel, The Hipster Huckleberry Finn. Jim was monstrous proud about it, and he got so he wouldn’t hardly notice the other hipsters....
View ArticleThe Most Dangerous Bar: Club 915 Loses Liquor License After 19 "Serious...
The OLCC announced today that it has repealed Club 915's liquor license. The most recent fatal shooting of the club's bouncer is just the beginning. In the past year, the OLCC and police detailed a...
View ArticleNASA Names the Most and Least Realistic Science Fiction Films Ever Made
Because yeah...that's what I want in my science fiction. REALISM. (Psst, you guys! Pretty sure super-duper-realistic science fiction is just called SCIENCE.) Anyway, here's the list! Most Realistic...
View ArticleFor Your Consideration... Cool Dog!
Yes, as a matter of fact, I am still befuddled and steaming that Toy Story 3 made so many "Best of 2010" lists. (Oh, C'MON! You love my obsessive-compulsiveness. It allows you to take the intellectual...
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Compound x GoodWood NYC
2011 is turning out to be quite the year for collaborations. Today's featured bi-coastal collab is between Portland's Compound gallery and GoodWood NYC: The Sheed Pendant was released to coincide with...
View ArticleJudd Apatow's Next: A Pseudo-Sequel to Knocked Up.
Both as a writer/director and a producer, Judd Apatow's been remarkably reliable the past few years; even his "smaller" films—like the underrated Funny People—have been well worth checking out. Hitfix...
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Tonight in Music
Bipartisan Cafe—Shicky Gnarowitz Doug Fir—Casey Neill & The Norway Rats, Ashleigh Flynn, Lindsay Fuller, 9 pm, $10 East End—Palo Verde, Lamprey, ZsmokeHolocene—Pictureplane, Teengirl Fantasy, DJ...
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Dark Horse Digital Download Contest
Local comics retailer Dark Horse is diving full-on into digital comics distribution this month, with the launch of the Dark Horse Bookshelf, a new digital store that's notable in part for its price...
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World's Longest Cat! Coming Here!
STEWIE IS COMING TO TOWN! I would wear him as a scarf. Stewie's a cat from Reno who just won the record for the world's longest cat. He's a Maine Coon who's over four-feet long. He looks so stretchy....
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Sale's On: Mabel & Zora
Now through Sunday take 20% off storewide at Mabel & Zora, including an additional 20% off items already marked down, like this wear-it-constantly hooded sweater from 525 America: [ Subscribe to...
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"You Arabs, I Know Your Kind": Police Hunt For Hate Crime Suspect
Rickey Watson—Seen this guy recently?Police are looking for a suspect in a December bias crime who seems to have disappeared. The suspect is 28-year-old Rickey Lee Watson and he's wanted on suspicious...
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Nicolas Cage Proudly Presents the Mercury Film Section.
STEP THREE: WIN AN OSCAR FOR SEASON OF THE WITCH Reel Music Festival. Says Ned: For the 28th installment of its annual Reel Music Festival, the Northwest Film Center once again assembles a gaggle of...
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Download Episode 26 of the Mercury Music Hour
Ladies and gentlemen, we proudly present the very first episode of the Mercury Music Hour of 2011. To mark this historic occasion, you can expect to listen to as dreary and unprofessional a radio show...
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Bad-Ass Dog Mocked Nazis, Got Away With It
Recent news indicates that dogs can be offensive and get away with it. Adolf Hitler, one of the most ruthless men in history, has recently been found to have had difficulty in dealing with the smack...
View ArticleGrand Jury Clears Cops in Shooting of Mentally Ill Man with Machete, Charges...
A Multnomah County grand jury has found no criminal wrongdoing in the nonfatal police shooting December 27 of Marcus Lagozzino, a machete-wielding man threatening to commit "suicide by cop," ruling...
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