I Rebuke Thee, Technology!!
Dear "Technology": Go eff yourself. First, our entire Mercury server went kablooey, and we lost everything we were working on for this coming week's print edition. (Not that anything we were working...
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Blazers Hire New Coaching StaffBlazers Hire New Coaching Staff
It's not as exciting as the team hiring Chris Paul as their ficitional point guard coach, but the Portland Trail Blazers have rounded out their coaching staff. Nate McMillan's crew will now feature...
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Emily Ryan's Hoodie/Scarf/ShrugEmily Ryan's Hoodie/Scarf/Shrug
Now with fringe! Winter days/summer nights. On Etsy. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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PDX Pop Now Primer: Tiny Knives, Tu FawningPDX Pop Now Primer: Tiny Knives,...
The 2010 PDX Pop Now! Festival kicks off this weekend. Until then, take a moment to get a little better acquainted with two of the acts that will be performing. The howling and growling blasts of...
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Review: UprisingReview: Uprising
"A lot people think ballet is stuffy and boring," said choreographer and producer Candace Brouchard, introducing the second installment of "Uprising," a collaboration between the Oregon Ballet Theater...
View ArticleToday in Time-Travel News: Primer Will Now Make One Hour and 17 Minutes...
Shane Carruth's indie sci-fi flick Primer is one of the smartest, coolest movies in recent memory. Made for a mere $7,000 and featuring brain-twisting scientific and cinematic architecture, Carruth's...
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Miami Fashion Week.Miami Fashion Week.
Culturally, I feel as if Portland and Miami may be on opposite ends of the universe instead of the country. The bright colors, the tans, the music, and bikinis all seem so foreign to this pale Pacific...
View ArticleDog Sexually Assaults Grandma, and... IT'S NOT FUNNY!!
A few of you may find the following video of a dog sexually assaulting a grandma amusing... THAT IS UNTIL IT HAPPENS TO YOU. In the early days of the Mercury, I was walking through the office one day,...
View ArticleGood Morning News!!Good Morning News!!
Really, Oregon weather isn't so bad. This morning thousands of people are still without power in Washington DC after a violent summer storm blew through on Sunday. It's the 20 year anniversary of the...
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Buy Mines Today. See Mines Tonight.Buy Mines Today. See Mines Tonight.
Menomena's brand new album Mines is officially out today and it's a fantastic record. We talked about it last week, in addition to examining the band's fascinating functioning/dysfunctional...
View ArticleFinally, a Trailer for Bill and Ted's Excellent Inception.
Okay, this is the last fake Inception trailer I'm gonna post on Blogtown. Promise. Keep in mind that I wouldn't post it if it wasn't great. Trust me, jerks—strange things are afoot at the Circle K....
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NOM's Final SolutionNOM's Final Solution
Bilerico: The National Organization for Marriage's "One Man, One Woman" bus tour hit Indianapolis today and the LGBT community came out to greet them. Since we're hospitable Hoosiers, of course, our...
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It's Happening Tonight!It's Happening Tonight!
DREAMSPACE—Are you one of those people who loves to bitch about crappy big-budget Hollywood flicks? Well, do something about it by going to Inception—don't wait for it to get to the cheap theaters,...
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Predict the Blazers DramaPredict the Blazers Drama
Everyone loved Rudy Fernandez when he almost broke his neck. Now, not so much. This morning on 95.5, the O's Blazer beatwriter Jason Quick predicted that there would be "drama" regarding a Blazers...
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Cute Interspecies Nursing: Condemn or Allow?Cute Interspecies Nursing:...
Photo stolen from a friend's Facebook page I know it's an affront to God, but come on, it's a kitten attempting to nurse from a pug. God would be cool with this, right? I'm not justifying this, I just...
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Oni Press "Wins" Comic-ConOni Press "Wins" Comic-Con
Poster by Kevin Tong, via Comics Alliance At least according to io9, in a round up of SDCC's winners and losers. Scott Pilgrim dominated the con, the buzz on the screening of Edgar Wright's film...
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Fashion Design Camp Fashion ShowFashion Design Camp Fashion Show
They may get more attention, but the rock 'n' roll summer camps of our fair city aren't the only option for youngsters who want to learn something creative over the summer: The Fashion Design Camp has...
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The Best Food Related Info-Graphic You'll See All DayThe Best Food Related...
From the Wall Street Journal Look at that insanely beautiful info-graphic:The fantastic title, worthy to grace the book jacket of a short story collection by any number of self-absorbed young fiction...
View ArticleI'll Bring This Up at My Next Meeting With the Boss
Morale is pretty good at the paper... but there's always room for improvement: DHB, which specialized in making body armor used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan, paid for more than $6 million...
View ArticleHorse Feathers Film a Take Away Show
Back before there was the Penny Jam or Into the Woods, La Blogothèque introduced the world to the Take Away Show (perhaps another site did it first, but I believe they are the forebears to this...
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