Tonight in Music: Songs For Moms
SONGS FOR MOMS, STREET EATERS, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, SEX HAIR (The Know, 2026 NE Alberta) I'm not sure whether the name is supposed to be ironic or not, but the ladies of Bay Area punk trio Songs...
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Faux Celebrity Tila Tequila Assaulted by Faux ClownsFaux Celebrity Tila...
In a real bullshit move, and also one that will not do wonders for their rep, the Juggalos attacked internet celeb Tila Tequila with rocks, bottles and feces at their annual Gathering. Says Tequila to...
View ArticleBREAKING: Skateboard-Swinging Pioneer Square Guard Received Work Permit as...
A Pioneer Courthouse Square security guard who was uncertified when he swung at a teenager with a skateboard received a work permit a day after a video of the incident aired on the Mercury's website,...
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Mad Men MondayMad Men Monday
Alison Hallett just wants Don to notice her too. The title of this week's episode—The Rejected—confused me at first, but when I thought about it, Ken, Allison, and Tom (Trudy's father) really pushed...
View ArticleWhy Conceive a Child When You Can Buy a Doll to Urinate on You?
From the Saturday morning archives, here's a hilarious and fairly disturbing commercial for Baby Wee-Wee, the baby doll that drinks, exposes its impressively large penis, and then urinates all over...
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BREAKING: James Cameron Has Completed His Transformation into a James Bond...
Where did James Cameron celebrate his birthday, you might ask? Oh, right. 5,200 feet underneath a Russian lake. Right. Of course. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleThis is Your Grandfather's Star Wars!
What Star Wars would look like had it been filmed in the early 1900s before sound. THIS IS SO FREAKING AWESOME!! [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Scott Pilgrim Bombs. It's All Your Fault.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is fantastic. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World made only $10.5 million this weekend, finishing in fifth place behind—wait for it—The Expendables, Eat Pray Love, The Other Guys,...
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Episode Six of the Mercury Music Hour
Episode number six of the Mercury Music Hour is going on, RIGHT NOW! This week we are playing new music (Orca Team, John Heart Jackie), old music (The Kingdom, Elliott Smith), really old music...
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Jenene Nagy Appointed Curator-In-Residence for Disjecta 2011-2012...
Damien Gilley and Ethan Rose's Approximate, co-curated by Jenene Nagy 2010's been a big year for Jenene Nagy. She kicked things off in January with her solo show at Disjecta, Tidal, described by the...
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Blood Bone-Nation: Everything is BrokenBlood Bone-Nation: Everything is Broken
Time for our weekly True Blood discussion group, dudes! We learned tonight that Oregon is pro-vampire rights. What else did we learn? Nice Bluetooth, Nan Ba-dow-da-dow dow-wowwwwww "When you came in...
View ArticleSL Letter of the Day: Before the Bondage Workshop
Just wanted to say thank you for providing me with sample of "alternative" sexualities by way of your column. It's opened my mind just enough to begin to explore my own sexuality without shame......
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Every Problem Has a Solution; In this Case, Sharp Steel SpikesEvery Problem...
The Portland Business Alliance is always looking for new, creative ways of hustling the homeless out of the downtown business district—so maybe they should steal the following idea from the Chinese,...
View ArticleWhat are the Chances for History Museum Tax Passing?
The Oregon Historical Society (OHS) surprised me, at least, on Friday when they announced that they'll be aiming to put a five-year $10 million bond measure on the Multnomah County ballot in November....
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NERD ALERT: Tiny Jon Stewart Stormtrooper Proudly Presents this Weekend's...
Via.Just in time to distract you from that depressing Scott Pilgrim news, the Official George Lucas-Sanctioned Star Wars Geek Convention the fifth Star Wars Celebration took place in Orlando this...
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It's Happening Tonight!It's Happening Tonight!
SEX BOB-OMB—Based on the fantastic comics by Bryan Lee O'Malley and directed by Edgar Wright—the brilliant guy behind Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Spaced—the frantic, exuberant, and hilarious...
View ArticleAlvin Greene: The Plot Thickens—with Howling!
The world's most bizarre U.S. Senate candidate secures his title for another day. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Note to World: Don't Fuck with Justin Bieber… Or Me for that MatterNote...
I've stumbled upon a great way to deal with all the Justin Bieber haters on this blog—I'll simply give Bieber your number and let him EXTRACT HIS SADISTIC AND DELICIOUS REVENGE. Over the weekend,...
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Suit Seeks $3.7 Million in Pedestrian's DeathSuit Seeks $3.7 Million in...
THE OREGONIANLINDSAY LEONARDThe Oregonian is reporting that a lawsuit has been filed in the death last year of Lindsay Leonard, a 23-year-old Reed College graduate fatally struck by a car while...
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Chromeo, Live at the Roseland Theater, 08/13/10Chromeo, Live at the Roseland...
Chromeo—P-Thugg, Dave 1, and a pair of glowing leggy keyboard stands—were in town this weekend at the Roseland and we dispatched the equally as leggy Minh Tran to take photos of the band. Commence...
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