Win Tickets to Five Element Ninjas!
Tonight at the Hollywood, the Grindhouse Film Festival presents the great Five Element Ninjas. From My, What a Busy Week!: NINJAS—Tonight the Grindhouse Film Fest presents the 1982 kung fu classic...
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Today in TBA Updates: Food Carts!Today in TBA Updates: Food Carts!
At the Works this year, "Violetta's 'Etta' cart will be there for the entire week, backed up by Jeremy Larter of Holocene, who will be making things like bahn mi, tacos, and tapas," according to PICA...
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Trailer for Danny Boyle's 127 Hours.Trailer for Danny Boyle's 127 Hours.
Danny Boyle's follow-up to Slumdog Millionaire is 127 Hours, starring James Franco. (As I've made public declarations of my Francophilia before, I have no hesitancy about doing so again here. My...
View ArticleJosh Friedman to Write & Produce Locke and Key
Yesterday io9 reported that Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles showrunner Josh Friedman will be writing and producing Locke & Key, a TV show based on the comics of the same name from IDW (I...
View ArticleThey Didn't Just Protect Child Rapists
Bombers too: The British government and the Roman Catholic church colluded to cover up the suspected involvement of a priest in a 1972 bombing that killed nine people and injured 30, a new report said...
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Signs Seeking Help in Kipp Crawford Case AppearSigns Seeking Help in Kipp...
I've noticed a couple of these signs posted around town recently, seeking help in solving the case of 32-year-old local musician Kipp Crawford, who was likely robbed last November before being fatally...
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And I'll Take the Corn Nuts Too, Portlandia!And I'll Take the Corn Nuts Too,...
There are only three things I'm ever anywhere before 9 am to do: exercise, travel, or unlocking the door of the Mercury office so the rather large crew shooting Portlandia can have their way with us....
View ArticleUnfortunate Vodka Situation
How many times have you been knocking back vodka shots with your pals, when you stop to realize that the Grey Goose you're swilling isn't doing shit for your freakishly sculpted abs? Never? Oh. Well,...
View ArticleSL Letter of the Day: Boom Noodle
Poopnoodle. I just heard this word for the first time today. When I asked what, exactly, a poopnoodle is, I was told that a poopnoodle is what happens when you pee right after fucking someone hard in...
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PHART CHART TOPPER!PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week's PHART CHART TOPPER is Adam Zeek! 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...
View ArticleI LOVE TELEVISION™I LOVE TELEVISION™
KABOOOOM!! AWESOOOOOME!! by Wm. Steven Humphrey [Dudes! I'm on vacation! So enjoy this only moderately moldy I Love Television™ repeat column, with adorable old-timey pop culture references left...
View ArticleAn Apologist's Guide to John MellencampAn Apologist's Guide to John Mellencamp
No, he's not "Cougar" anymore. Stop calling him that. by Ezra Ace Caraeff NO ONE BLAMES YOU for hating John Mellencamp. The diminutive Midwest icon of stars-and-stripes farmland rock has long been...
View ArticleFilm ShortsFilm Shorts
In which we hit it and quit it. 8 1/2 Fellini's much-loved 1963 classic, back on the big screen with a new 35mm print. Clinton Street Theater. Animal Kingdom See review this issue. Fox Tower 10....
View ArticleHigher GroundHigher Ground
Baltimore's Lower Dens are never alone. by Mark Lore YOU CAN USUALLY count on solo artists to eventually give in to their primal urge to ditch the acoustic guitar and stool (plus all that...
View ArticleThe CrowdiesThe Crowdies
A conversation with Crowded House's Neil Finn. by Matthew Slessler MERCURY: I'm glad to hear everyone is safe from the fire at your apartment building. What happened? NEIL FINN: We rented a place in...
View ArticlePages Upon PagesPages Upon Pages
Sean Flinn and the Royal We debut with Write Me a Novel. by Raquel Nasser HISTORIANS EXIST as living guides to that which is doomed to repeat itself; they sit upright in their wood-paneled studies...
View ArticleSold OutSold Out
Sword+Fern celebrates the two-year mark with Backyard Mythology. by Marjorie Skinner This week marks the second anniversary of Emily Baker's Sword+Fern (811 E Burnside, #144), and she's going all out....
View ArticleLetters to the EditorLetters to the Editor
Comporting ourselves like gentlemen and gentlewomen. SIZE MATTERS DEAR MERCURY—Twenty-four ounce cans are not "tall boys" ["A Really Stiff Chaser," News, Aug 19]. The colloquial "tall boy" refers to a...
View ArticleThe Underworld, Down UnderThe Underworld, Down Under
The Australian crime flick Animal Kingdom is a brutal, gripping knockout. by Ned Lannamann AUSTRALIA WAS SETTLED as a penal colony, so it makes perfect sense their crime movies are excellent. Earlier...
View ArticleNosebleed SunNosebleed Sun
The Growlers make beach-noir music, and plenty of it. by Ned Lannamann "IF YOU'RE PUTTING something out, you want to put out as much as you can," says Brooks Nielsen, singer for Costa Mesa...
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