Catholic Bishops to Straight Marrieds: No More Oral, No More Handjobs, No...
If you must fuck the wife—instead of raping generations of defenseless children—just stick it in her twat, 'kay? Canadian Catholic bishops are cautioning married couples to not get too focused on...
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Cute Band Alert: School of Rock's the Smith vs. the Cure
Tonight: The School of Rock is mussing up their hair and/or pomading the unholy sadness out of it. It's Robert Smith vs. Morrissey in a battle of tears and loneliness, with the most adorable musicians...
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Cute Band Alert: School of Rock's the Smiths vs. the Cure
Tonight: The School of Rock is mussing up their hair and/or pomading the unholy sadness out of it. It's Robert Smith vs. Morrissey in a battle of tears and loneliness, with the most adorable musicians...
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The Best Way To Waste Time This Afternoon
Welp, it's Friday and most of you are back from lunch by now, which to me means, "time to surf the web until 5pm!" I've got a way for you to kill some time right here—it's a little tumblr called...
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Why Helena Bonham Carter Wore Different Color Shoes to the Golden Globes
While it's totally not MOD's style to cover Golden Globe or Oscar fashion do's and dont's, anyone that loves fashion and follows "celebrity" pays attention to these events. We all had our Globe...
View ArticleGood Afternoon, Television!
Well, I know what you're going to be doing on Saturday... watching the world premiere of Mega Python vs. Gataroid starring 80s pop idols Tiffany and Debbie Gibson! (Syfy, Saturday, 9 pm) IFC is...
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Someone Stole Lea Michele's Ascot
Hmm. Apparently Glee's Lea Michelle likes the letter "V." Thank you, Lea... but I believe we've seen enough.via [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Download Episode 29 of the Mercury Music Hour
It's a smash! It just wouldn't be a Friday without another episode of the Mercury Music Hour ripe for the plucking. So kick off your weekend in style with a full hour of all local music. The Mercury...
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This Week's Mercury Film Section. (Oh! And! A Chance to Win Ip Man on DVD!)
BIUTIFUL “The sun will come oooout... to-mor-row! So ya gotta haanng onn...’til to-mor-row!” Another week, another Film section to read once you get bored with James Cameron talking about Ryan...
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Get Drunk—the Justin Bieber Way!
Well... I guess I know how I'm gonna get fucked up this weekend. via People Note to Mercury office: I won't be in on Monday. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Drunk Driver in Kipp Crawford Case Gets 60 Days in Jail
On the first floor of Multnomah County courthouse this afternoon at 1:30pm, a wedding party poured out of the elevator, laughing and holding flowers. Five stories up, in room 526, two other families...
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Fertile Ground: Closing Weekend
This is it: the final weekend of Fertile Ground 2011. Last Thursday I recommended a few events, and this week Alison shared some thoughts about three shows she saw, some of which you may still have a...
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(En)Counter Culture, Flashing Up This Weekend
(En)Counter CultureSometime between now and Monday, (En)Counter Culture— a "social experiment in visual arts" organized by Kristin Bayans and Joey Brown of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry...
View ArticleExamining the Grand Jury Transcripts in the Police Shooting of Tom Higginbotham
The call flashed over to 911 about five minutes before 4 o'clock on what officers said was a "slow" Sunday afternoon. A homeless man had threatened a security guard at a strip mall at SE 82nd and...
View ArticleProtest Rapper Arrested in Tunisia
From the New Yorker: That ended on December 17th, when Mohamed Bouazizi, a twenty-six-year-old fruit seller, set himself on fire in the central town of Sidi Bouzid. He was protesting the demands for...
View ArticleTonight in Music: DJ Dance Party at Holocene, Tennis, Forgetters, Interpol,...
8 1/2 DJS: BEYONDADOUBT, LINGER AND QUIET, NATHAN DETROIT, COPY, ZAC ENO, NEW DADZ, SEX LIFE, JEFFREY JERUSALEM (Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison) Dance, mothereffer, dance! Join Holocene and a passel of...
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No One Likes Anthrax
In anticipation of this, it's been brought to my attention how much of a weak link Anthrax is on that tour. No one likes Anthrax*. * Notable exceptions: Scott Ian's parents. Chuck D. Kelly Bundy. [...
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A portrait of Egypt in chaos: Amid the sixth day of massive, full-throated protests aimed at toppling dictator Hosni Mubarak, the military is bringing in the big guns but still doing little, police...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside at The Crystal Ballroom...
CRYSTAL BALLROOM 97TH BIRTHDAY: SALLIE FORD AND THE SOUND OUTSIDE, THE PARSON RED HEADS, ELIZABETH COOK, PANCAKE BREAKFAST, & MORE (Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside) If there's one place that...
View ArticlePublican Don Younger In Unstable Condition
Sad news coming in from 45th and Belmont. Don Younger, the undisputed godfather of Oregon craft brews and proprietor behind the Horse Brass Pub, is reportedly unconscious and on a respirator in the...
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