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Today in Justin Bieber
Get ready to buy your tickets to L.A.—Justin Bieber is planning on opening up a store in posh outdoor shopping center The Grove! From LA Weekly:The main draw at the Bieber store, said to be opening...
View Article"Sorry for slavery. We didn't mean to."
it's Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2011 and America's troubled (read. super racist) past is still a touuuuchy subject. Maybe not for long. Reliably weepy slash screamy slash insane v-blogger CopperCab...
View Article"Pornland" Reputation Built on Speculation.
In case you missed it in Good Morning News last week, the O had an important article last Friday about how Portland's reputation as a sex trafficking hub is based on completely speculative numbers....
View ArticleFrug Yeah!
Goal for 2011: Learn the "Aloof" dance from Sweet Charity. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Blazers vs. Timberwolves - Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers welcome Team Jacob and the rest of the Minnesota Timberwolves. The bumbling Washington Generals to the Blazers' Harlem Globetrotters, the...
View ArticleCool-Ass Cover of Captain Beefheart's "Hot Head"
Olympia's foremost Indonesian-inflected rock band, Arrington De Dionyso's Malaikat dan Singa, recently entered Calvin Johnson's Dub Narcotic studio to cut a version of Captain Beefheart’s “Hot Head,”...
View ArticleGood Morning News!
Suicide Bombing Kills 52 People: Bomber in Baghdad targeted police recruits. Cheney Needs a New Heart. Well duh. But he's finally looking for a transplant. Chinese President Visits America! And gets...
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Another Portland First? A Food Cart—Yes, the Whole Food Cart—Has...
Courtesy of foodcartsportland.comI guess it was bound to happen, eventually—what with nearly 600 food carts having sprouted in pods all across Portland. This weekend, for the first time that the fine...
View ArticleThe Battle Hymn of the Sarah Palin Republic
In this tribute video, a couple of tea party hillbillies sing a stirring remake of the Battle Hymn of the Republic dedicated to Sarah Palin. Naturally it's pretty confusing. So wait... she's going...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Crocodiles, Flexions, and Dirty Beaches
CROCODILES, FLEXIONS, COSMETICS (Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) Read our article on Crocodiles. A complete listing of this week's show can be viewed here. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleSpeaking of Idiot Sarah Palin and Her Idiot Mouth
Idiot Sarah Palin opened her idiot mouth again last night. “Blood libel obviously means being falsely accused of having blood on your hands,” Palin whined to Sean Hannity. Um... not quite, Sarah:...
View ArticleNatalie Portman Totally Thinks I'm Hilarious
Guys! Natalie Portman totally thinks I'm hilarious! IT'S TRUE!! Watch, I'll prove it. Hey Natalie! So a customer walks into a computer store and says to the clerk, “I’m looking for a mystery adventure...
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This article in Slate looks at the most important issue of our time: Annoyance at people who insist on putting two spaces after every period. Two-spacers are everywhere, their ugly error crossing...
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Happy Hour with Amy Sacks
Another small Portland eyewear company has popped up on my radar. Amy Sacks:Puppy! (The glasses aren't bad either.)The company is in its growth stage, and looking for people to join their team, so...
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Gay Teenager Bullied At School Commits Suicide, School's Anti-Bullying...
Heartbreaking: Eighteen-year old Lance Lundsten died on Saturday as a result of a suicide attempt, according to KSAX-TV. Lundsten’s friends say he was gay and that he was bullied at Jefferson High...
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R.I.P. Basil
Sad news from the pitbull grindcore community. Basil, the pitbull singer/barker from Caninus has passed away. Basil was diagnosed with a brain tumor and put to sleep earlier this month, she was nine...
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It's Happening Tonight!
WARTS AND ALL—The tagline is "49 percent motherfucker, 51 percent son of a bitch," but when we're talking about legendary Motörhead bassist Lemmy Kilmister, it's 100 percent badass. Lemmy shows us the...
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For Once, Something Good Happens on Buffy's Brithday
Birthday RuinerBuffy Summers' birthdays have been historically terrible (Angel loses his soul after they have sex; Giles betrays her; Giles gets turned into a demon; Dawn sets the house on fire; Dawn...
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Tonight on OPB: Serling, Roddenberry, and TV Sci-Fi.
Tonight at 8 pm on OPB: Pioneers of Television: Science Fiction, an hour-long doc examining a couple of old-school sci-fi TV shows and their creators: Lost in Space, Star Trek, and The Twilight Zone....
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Bridgeport + World Cup Coffee = I Guess I Can Get Out Of Bed This Morning
T.S. Eliot is full of shit. April is not that cruel—at least occasionally it stops raining and I don’t have to wear gloves and goddammit I need new wiper blades and…so yeah, I’m saying January is far,...
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