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Duende de Lorca review
RUSSELL YOUNG I went into Miracle Theatre's Duende de Lorca knowing little about Federico García Lorca and wondering what a bilingual theater production would be like. The play, directed by Matthew B....
View ArticleThe Price of Discrimination
Enforcing DADT cost the federal government $200,000,000 over five years: The military's controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which is set to be rolled back in the coming months, expelled...
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Kush Welcomes You
While some welcome mats can be anything but welcoming—with sayings like: "Leave" and "Oh Shit Not You Again"—Brian, the designer at Kush Hand Knotted Carpets, is doing his absolute best to make sure...
View ArticleTV News Discovers Trolling
Hey, did you guys know about trolling? It's a serious problem! (Via Laughing Squid.) [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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It's Happening Tonight!
PROBING—Something missing in your life since Action/Adventure Theatre's spot-on Portland hipster melodrama Fall of the House called it quits last year? Well, their new semi-improvised serial may fill...
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Triple Word Floor!
Check out this awesome office floor!Probably the coolest office ever. It's public relations firm Lambert, Edwards & Associates in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I'm lobbying for the Scrabble board floor...
View ArticleThe Dismemberment Plan on Fallon: Travis Morrison Caught the Beard Bug
Holy shit, I'm so glad the Dismemberment Plan didn't suck on Fallon last night. I'm going to New York to see their show at Webster Hall next Saturday and if last night's TV performance was awful, I...
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Dear Mercury Employees: If You Have Time to Mope, You Have Time to Mop
Ahem. ATTENTION ALL MERCURY EMPLOYEES: According to SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH as reported by the Daily Mail:An hour of pushing a mop across the floor and wringing it out in a bucket works off 238 calories,...
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Hopworks Part II
Details about the long whispered-about new Hopworks are starting to come out. The Bike Bar, so named for its location on the busiest bike route in the state, is opening up right next to New Old Lompoc...
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New Bills Roundup: Bag Ban is Back!
The legislative session kicked off this week, with over 1,600 new laws and rule changes proposed by Oregon's representatives. I'll be doing roundups of the laws relevant to Portland on the blog all...
View ArticleUm, Okay, but Then You Republicans Are Going to Get Started on Creating Jobs,...
Because we could really use some jobs, you guys. People voted Republicans in so you could get the economy back up and running. So next you're going to do everything in your power to lower...
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Bubble Boutique - SALE Ends Sunday!
Perusing the Bubble Boutique website it appears as though almost everything is marked down! And the same apparently goes for in-store shopping as well. But you've only got until Sunday to get these...
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Salon Reviews Portlandia
Here's a 'graph from Salon's review of Portlandia (premiering tonight on IFC, 10:30 pm)—which asks (but doesn't answer) if the show is actually funny. The series rather pointedly teases a core section...
View ArticleF/M/K Just Got A Whole Lot More Intellectual
The last few months I've been getting a kick out of a regular feature at The Hairpin where writers/bloggers Julie Klausner and Natasha Vargas-Cooper tackle the classic game Fuck/Marry/Kill. For...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Jared Mees & the Grown Children, POH-Hop pt. 2, and much more
JARED MEES AND THE GROWN CHILDREN, AND AND AND, CHARTS (Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th) No curfew. No work tomorrow. You gonna just stay home Friday night? Say goodbye to the workweek with boisterous pop...
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Three Easy Steps to Getting Your Local Film Reviewed and/or Listed in the...
Here at ye olde Mercury, we try to cover Portland's film scene in all its permutations—from the big blockbusters rattling the speakers at Lloyd Cinemas, to subtitled arthouse flicks flickering around...
View ArticleThe Story Of Little Red Riding Hood Just Got Worse
A few days ago saw the release of a trailer for a supposedly more terrifying and adult version of Little Red Riding Hood. In between my uncontrollable eye-rolling, the filming type looked familiar....
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Orcas (Benoît Pioulard and The Sight Below) Cover Broadcast's "Until Then"
In honor and remembrance of recently-passed Trish Keenan, Portland-based Benoît Pioulard and Rafael Anton Irisarri (also known as The Sight Below) recorded this haunting and beautiful cover of...
View ArticleWeen Week Countdown! Day 3: "Birthday Boy"
"Birthday Boy," off the terrific God Ween Satan, is the precursor to "Baby Bitch," the song which the lyric "wrote 'Birthday Boy' for ya, babe," falls. Like "Baby Bitch," "Birthday Boy" is a...
View ArticleCheck out the Wacky Trailer for The Wonderful World of Dissocia
I'm happy to see the rising trend of local theater companies posting video trailers for their shows, but some use the medium better than others. This trailer (for Third Rail's upcoming Wonderful World...
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