Online Comic Book Retailer on Giffords Shooting: "1 down, 534 to go."
In a blog post titled "I down, 534 to go," Travis Corcoran, the owner of online comic book store Heavy Ink suggested that the Giffords shooting was a good start: It is absolutely, absolutely...
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Hutch Harris Goes Solo
Hutch Harris, the lovable/spazzy frontman for the Thermals, is launching his first solo foray entitled Forbidden Friends. You might recall Harris' pre-Thermals days in Urban Legends, Haelah, or even...
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Bike and Pedestrian Projects Create More Jobs Per Dollar
script and sealYou know who I like? Ray LaHood, the transportation secretary for Obama. You know why I like him? Because he has a really good blog. Yesterday on his bloggie blog, LaHood spelled out a...
View ArticleAt This Time in 2007, There Were 14 People Running for President
As David Weigel helpfully reminds. By contrast, in this election cycle, not even dark horse candidates like Herman Cain or John Bolton have announced anything yet.It's another sign of the strength of...
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Lookbook Shots From Pendleton's The Portland Collection
Finally, first look at the Pendleton collaboration with Church + State designers Rachel Turk and Nathaniel Crissman, and John Blasioli!!! Behold, The Portland Collection: See more after the cut! All...
View ArticleOooohkay... I Guess Some Cats Just Don't Like Justin Bieber
Sure, I'll admit that his later singles aren't as strong as his early ones... and yeah, his so-called professed Christianity is boring and annoying. But c'mon, foreign cat! Justin Bieber isn't all...
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Let's Rename the Rose Garden!
Looking good, ExtenZe Arena Blazers fans, be thankful for Paul Allen. And no, this is not another post about the sheer unbridled insanity that pours from John Canzano's pen. This is about Power...
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Today in THE GREATEST IDEA EVER THAT I WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN
As you already know, the Portland red carpet premiere of Portlandia is tonight at the Hollywood Theater—and though it sounds sorta fun, I will not be attending because these types of things just seem...
View ArticleEat—and Then Lose—Your Lunch: "Faces of Death" for Factory Workers!
I didn't realize this, but working in factories—around giant machines that spin and grind, and fat men who drop things like large wrenches or who don't sweep the floor—is apparently INCREDIBLY...
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If Oregon is Pakistan, Mississippi is Bangladesh.
The Economist mapped out the 50 states compared to the foreign countries with their equivalent GDP. Oregon is the unstable, steeply divided state of Pakistan. Mississippi, of course, is Bangladesh,...
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Lookbook Shots From Pendleton's The Portland Collection
Finally, first look at the Pendleton collaboration with Church + State designers Rachel Turk and Nathaniel Crissman, and John Blasioli!!! Behold, The Portland Collection: See more on MOD. All images...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Peter Wolf Crier, Icarus the Owl, Dashboard Confessional,...
KURTIS BLOW, DESTRO, L PRO, ROCKET ONE, BROWN CAESAR, OZROC, DJ SPARK (Mt. Tabor Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne)If you need an idea of how long Kurtis Blow has been making hiphop history, the Harlem emcee...
View ArticleMaximus Marathon Poetry Reading Begins Today
To commemorate the hundredth birthday of modernist poet Charles Olson, The Switch is staging a weekend long event in which local poets will read the entirety of The Maximus Poems. What are The Maximus...
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Most Superior Donuts in Portland
As a fun little gimmick for the opening of Tracy Letts' Superior Donut (Alison's review here), Artists Repertory Theatre held an event last Saturday called "Most Superior Donut," a contest wherein...
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Scenes From a Town Hall Meeting (on the Joint Terrorism Task Force)
Mayor Sam Adams sits next to Portland Copwatch's Dan Handelman.Last night, I made my way over to Portland State's student-union building for the much-ballyhooed, city-council-led town hall on whether...
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They Live Here: Shelley Short
Faulkner ShortShelley Short Once again it's another chapter in our series of 10 (or so) questions with musicians that live in Portland, but play all over the world. Rainy, wet days like these call for...
View ArticleRequired Viewing: The Tea Party's True Colors
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It's Happening Tonight!
LEDA—Playwright Kimberly Rosenstock's 99 Ways to Fuck a Swan was the talk of the 2009 JAW playwriting fest. Now Rosenstock's tale of historical romance, obsession, and fowl boning gets a full...
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Download Episode 27 of the Mercury Music Hour
Holy hot dog, it's time again for this week's episode of the Mercury Music Hour, the only all-local one-hour radio show brought to you by the chuckleheads at the Mercury. Every week, you can listen to...
View ArticleThe 900 Number
Word to Mark the 45 King! Looking @ Tumblin Erb today I saw this commercial for Ice-T's old 900 line:Man, remember that special period from the late 80s to the early 90s when everygoddamnbody had a...
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