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High Wolf's Metaphysical Shamanic Drone Coming To Portland
Since December, rumors have been circulating about the French trance-drone artist High Wolf coming to perform in the Northwest. With a February 4 Seattle show confirmed by the cerebral minds of the...
View ArticlePublisher's Lunch Part 2 - Philip Iosca
The Publisher's Lunch series continues in February, this time turning to a local writer, Philip Iosca. The Publication Studio will be providing free copies of his collection, Ballad of the Sad Young...
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Big Changes at Portland's Hollywood Theatre: Richard Beer Out, Dan Halsted In?
Image Via.There's at least one big change that's gone down in the past week at Film Action Oregon and the Hollywood Theatre: Richard Beer, the longtime artistic director for Film Action Oregon and the...
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Today in Horrible News
Thanks a shit-ton, Canada, for offering up what's arguably the most depressing news item of the day. Not depressing like I want to kill myself so much as I want to kill some certain other...
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Bruce vs. Frankenstein Still a Go
Now with Frankenstein! I was just asking Erik about this the other day. Despite many burblings of a sequel to the Bruce Campbell-tastic My Name Is Bruce, I was starting to despair that it wasn't going...
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week's PHART CHART TOPPER is Jov Luke! Congrats, and look! We've animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart Topper? Submit your art or photos to the Mercury's Flickr pool, and start...
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Then They Came for the Food Day.
On the heels of this morning's news about the new website to opt out of phone book delivery, reader Richard sends this photo and note: The news about the Yellow Pages is great, but is there an easy...
View ArticleJust Words? As You Watch the Events in Egypt, Remember Obama's Cairo Speech
Regarding today's enormous, revolutionary protests in Egypt: I keep asking myself, "What will Obama do?" Plenty of others have noted the bind he's in—caught between the words of his Cairo speech and...
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There's "This" and Then There's "That"
There's this… two million people in downtown Cairo.via And there's "that"... Thousands of sharks swimming 100 yards off the shore of Palm Beach, Florida.via [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Here is a Photo from the New Menomena Video
It's hard to judge a video by a single production photo, but odds are the Alicia Rose-directed clip for Menomena's "TAOS" is going to be pretty incredible. This looks like a scene from G.L.O.W. or a...
View ArticleCould've Told You That
Science! Men are more than twice as likely to continue dating a girlfriend who has cheated on them with another woman than one who has cheated with another man, according to new research from a...
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Monotonix to Hang it Up
It was coming. There was just no way Monotonix, the three-piece sweaty Israeli junk tornado, could go on forever. Hell, the little hairballs crashed through the air and onto the floor with earnest...
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Photos of Women in Egypt
If you have a Facebook device, you can check out this amazing, growing photo gallery of women in Egypt. If not, here are some heart-stoppers: via [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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First Thursday Travel Showcases at Popina
It make perfect sense that the owners of a swimwear store in Portland would want to help drum up interest in travel to warm weather locales, so Popina is jumping in. This Thursday is the inaugural...
View ArticleBridesmaids: CONDEMN OR ALLOW?
On one hand, it's produced by Judd Apatow, and directed by Paul Feig. On the other hand, I DUNNO GUYS! On one hand, it's got a phenomenal cast of very funny women, headlined by Kristen Wiig. On the...
View ArticleTonight in Music: The Get Up Kids, Underoath, Rebecca Gates, and more
THE GET UP KIDS, STEEL TRAIN, RIVER CITY EXTENSION (Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th) Read our article on the Get Up Kids. UNDEROATH, THURSDAY, ANIMALS AS LEADERS, A SKYLIT DRIVE (Roseland, 8 NW 6th)...
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Valentine Skivvies From Recession and Get Better
A mix-tape is still arguably the cutest date-gift ever, even if nowadays it more often takes the form of a playlist on iTunes. Recession Clothing is hearkening back to the old standby with its V-day...
View ArticleIf Talent Borrows and Genius Steals, Microsoft's Ad Makers are Talented Geniuses
The sticky fingers of Bing strike again: Stereogum highlights the eerie similarities between the music of Microsoft's new commercial for the Bing search engine and the Arcade Fire's widely beloved...
View ArticleHollywood Comes To Town For Hollywood Theatre Benefit
With Portlandia all the buzz, Hollywood is sure taking note of our sweet little city. Case in point, this Thursday at Holocene, local photographer and filmmaker Lance Bangs is throwing A Few Of My...
View ArticleBitch Magazine, YA Fiction, and an Irate Scott Westerfeld
A couple days ago, Bitch Magazine posted a list of 100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader, which, at a glance, is a fairly standard list of books with strong female protagonists. (Though if...
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