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Star Wars: The Fragrance that COMES IN A LITTLE CAPEStar Wars: The Fragrance...
I have a really hard time believing these are new products, and not something that fell off the back of a truck in Taiwan during the mid-'80s, but Topless Robot says it's so: I can only assume that...
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This Week's Mercury Film Section.This Week's Mercury Film Section.
VALHALLA RISING They also enjoy playing Twister. VALHALLA RISING The viking movie from Bronson director Nicolas Winding Refn. I didn't like it as much as Bronson, but then, I don't like many movies as...
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Good Samaritan India has overlooked cranky neighbor relations of the past to help Pakistan with flood relief. Truth or smear? WikiLeaks founder is accused of rape. Watch out for the bad egg — er, half...
View ArticleHunger Games Cocktails!
Hey, local bars! Somebody, preferably somebody centrally located: On Monday, host a Hunger Games night with drink specials, okay? Because the third book in the trilogy is coming out, and I and a...
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Weekend Edition: ConcertsWeekend Edition: Concerts
Buy Olympia—Portland Folk Fest: Celso Machado, Dan Bern, Johnny & Jason, Rock 'n' Roll Kindy, noon, free, all ages Dante's—Thrashin': Village Idiot, 10 pm, $10-12 Doug Fir—The Tumblers, The...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Summer Slam, Portland Folk Festival
SUMMER SLAM!: FLOSSTRADAMUS, RUDE DUDES, SISTAFIST, SERIOUS BUSINESS, LIONSDEN, DJ COLBY B, DJ AUTOMATON, CORY O (Branx, 320 SE 2nd) ENDLESS SUMMER—There are parties, and then there is the Summer...
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PRA presents PDX Pop Now!PRA presents PDX Pop Now!
Sweet Genius! PRA recorded the entirety of PDX Pop Now! and they've made each individual set available for download. I'm finding out now that the first few songs of AU's performance were every bit as...
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ATD23: The Best Street Fighter Mixtape You'll Hear TodayATD23: The Best...
Gamers, fans of video games, people who game — whatever dumb label you wanna slap on the group of people most likely reading this Blogtown entry — have long compiled hundreds of hours of their lives...
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Good Morning, News!Good Morning, News!
That was quick. Less than a day after seeking the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on rape charges, Swedish authorities withdrew the warrant. Was there an apology? No. But you might remember...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Lucinda Williams, Thao & Mirah, The Do-Over and Japanther
LUCINDA WILLIAMS, SERA CAHOONE (Roseland, 8 NW 6th) PASSIONATE KISSES—Country-rock legend Lucinda Williams has built up her own genre of music: poetic, dark, rock 'n' roll country. Starting in the...
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Virtual Soles: For When Humping Real Feet Is Too IntimidatingVirtual Soles:...
Do you like videogames? Do you like dainty lil' tootsies, trapped and fermenting in the dark, hot cave that is the average woman's shoe? Would you like to liberate all those gorgeous feet, but simply...
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Mosques Across America: Muslims all over the US are seeing hostility from yokels in shadow of "Ground Zero Mosque" debate. Miner Relief: Chilean miners trapped underground for 17 days are found alive....
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Fashion's Night Out in PortlandFashion's Night Out in Portland
Those of us who read fashion blogs on a routine basis are well aware of Fashion's Night Out in New York, an orgy of fashion and shopping propelled by forces at Vogue and the CFDA. Lesser known are the...
View ArticleSnazzy Napper: It's Like a Nap in a Bag! (That's Good, Right?)
Hey guys! I'm on vacation, so as you can imagine, I'm pretty concerned about sleeping as much as I can, wherever I can! That's why I was very interested in this ad for the Snazzy Napper—a product...
View ArticleThis Movie Made $12.2 Million This Weekend. Also, There Is No God.
Box Office Mojo has the full rundown of this weekend's box office. It's moderately suicide-inducing. The best part is the critique of the ad campaign for The Switch: The comedy featuring Jennifer...
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Today in Pre-Pubescent Slut ShamingToday in Pre-Pubescent Slut Shaming
I recently spent a week on the Virginia coast, in a rented house that doubled as a exhaustive library of books people read (or think they want to read) at the beach—shelf after shelf of lightly...
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Name the Next Neutral Uke HotelName the Next Neutral Uke Hotel
Pardon the crowdsourcing, but after we found out about Neutral Uke Hotel—normally I'd explain something about the band here, but their name is pretty self-explanatory—we starting thinking about some...
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Name the Next Neutral Uke Hotel
Pardon the crowdsourcing, but after we found out about Neutral Uke Hotel—normally I'd explain something about the band here, but their name is pretty self-explanatory—we starting thinking about some...
View ArticleMy New Food Hero Delights (& Depresses) Me
Remy Mumby delights me. Why? I think it's because the precocious ten-year-old is a more adventurous eater than most adults I know, and watching him eat a rattlesnake on his web show Food Oddities has...
View ArticleJeff Merkeley on "Ground Zero Mosque": Amen!
Okay, it's a bad day when very sane advice sounds completely opposed to the mainstream. But Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley should make rational people proud with his editorial on the NYC mosque situation...
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