To Portland Movie Theater Owners: A Polite Request
(Since this totally worked for Marjorie, I'm gonna give it a shot....) This thing looks phenomenal. Here's what A.O. Scott says in his Times review: I am tempted to call Into Eternity the most...
View ArticleTonight: Comedy Is Ok
So after three months they're back. Co-host Mikey Kampmann has returned from Ethiopia. Co-host and former Mercury intern has returned from New York (dude, that's it? Are you done "making it?"). And...
View ArticleDogs Playing Poker!
Who doesn't love dogs? Especially when they wear ties and smoke cigars whilst getting down to the dirty business of some Five-card stud. I certainly do. Anyway, I've found a video that asks people to...
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Take That, Gertrude Stein!
Rejection hurts. Being rejected in a style mocking your own style of writing? Treasure! Thank you, WOW Report and Letters of Note. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleThe Existence of Bill O'Reilly Proves There is No God
In one of his low rent "backstage conversations," Bill O'Reilly tries to outwit the Atheists with one simple question: "If there is no God, then how did the moon get there, PINHEADS?" (Yes, he...
View ArticleMy, What A Busy Week!
The Bender, the Super Bowl, guns, kitties, and plenty of pickles! THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3 BANGS FOR YOUR BUCK—Tonight at Holocene, local filmmaker Lance Bangs presents A Few of My Favorite Things, a...
View ArticleDance Off
Portland's tEEth Wins a Seattle Choreography Contest by Alison Hallett THE A.W.A.R.D. SHOW! is a dance competition, founded in New York and now taking place in cities nationwide, that asks audiences...
View ArticleI, Anonymous
Thieves in hipster clothing. by Anonymous Dear little pieces-of-shit bitches who steal from local businesses: You are hipsters. I've never really understood the definition of that word, but after...
View ArticleA Charcoal Gray Comedy
Wild Target is pretty tame. by Ned Lannamann YOU EITHER have a soft spot for movies like Wild Target, or you don't. (My spot is over easy—pretty soft, in other words.) Wild Target is a whimsical...
View ArticleMarlboro Reds and Immortality
Deconstructing Motörhead's mythical mouthpiece. by Aris Wales LEMMY KILMISTER is not God. There's no reason for anyone to crumple to the man's boots and worship the Motörhead frontman like some...
View ArticleThe Maker
Daniel Lanois' new band Black Dub marries interior sonics with band heat. by Ned Lannamann LAST JUNE, on the eve of a European tour with his new group Black Dub, Daniel Lanois had a serious motorcycle...
View ArticleBold Will Hold
Portland and the art of Traditional American tattooing. by Matt Sorenson THERE IS AN ILLICIT, visceral attraction to tattoos, and no one forgets their first. I was 15, terrified, and more than a...
View ArticleJustice for Kipp
Drunken driver who ran over beloved local musician gets 60 days in jail. by Sarah Mirk FIFTEEN MONTHS after two drunken drivers ran over their son, the family of 31-year-old Kipp Crawford finally saw...
View ArticleBurlesque as Social History
A readable new biography of burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee. by Rayleen Courtney There was a time, following vaudeville's pinnacle but prior to the expansion of talking motion pictures, when burlesque...
View ArticlePatton Oswalt: Writer
Patton Oswalt's Zombie Spaceship Wasteland is best at its most melancholy. by Ned Lannamann PATTON OSWALT is an indisputably funny person. And parts of his first book, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, are...
View ArticleUp & Coming
Noteworthy shows the week of February 3-February 9 THURSDAY 2/3 A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS WITH LANCE BANGS: MISTER HEAVENLY, CARRIE BROWNSTEIN, DJ NIGHTSCHOOL (Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison) See My,...
View ArticleSOLD OUT
A Novel Romance with the modern bride. by Marjorie Skinner IN A COMPLETE counterpoint to what most Americans will be doing on Sunday afternoon (consuming chili and Bud Light in front of the tube), the...
View ArticleIn Other News
This week's fixins: $5 million in raises for Portland police officers, a memorial for Aaron Campbell, and... by Mercury staff Portland City Council on Wednesday, February 2, is expected to ratify a...
View ArticleHonk if You're Lonesome Tonight
Lonesome's Pizza walks a fine line between artisan and accessible. by Tony Perez NOBODY WANTS to go outside in February. We want to sit in our houses and apartments, and tear through our Netflix...
View ArticleSavage Love
Minimally Sexual by Dan Savage I read your column every week, mostly out of abstract interest. My thoughts reading your advice are usually some variation on "Wow, that's a lot of work to do, just to...
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