Tonight in Music: Cyndi Lauper, Stereo Total, Mattress
CYNDI LAUPER, CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE (Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon) For just a girl who wants to have fun, Cyndi Lauper has certainly done well for herself. After 25 years and tons of record sales, Lauper...
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Stumptown Comics Fest: Remarkably on the Ball!Stumptown Comics Fest:...
The Stumptown Comics Fest isn't until April, but I've already received my first press release, which most notably announces a change in venue—the show will be moving from the Doubletree to the...
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Tonight in MusicTonight in Music
Doug Fir—Stereo Total, Allister Izenberg, 9 pm, $12 Holocene—Mattress, Thicket, Stag Hare, Actual Magik, DJ Nightschool, 7 pm, free Mississippi Studios—The Angry Orts, Blunt Mechanic, Paper Upper...
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Tonight: Comedy Is OK - Regional EditionTonight: Comedy Is OK - Regional Edition
The worst, most confusing logo of all time? Jesus, August was a flash. But we have to look at the bright-side here, and it's that the dawning of September means a new installment of Comedy Is OK, the...
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Hurricane Season, in Musical TermsHurricane Season, in Musical Terms
It's clear that this year, Indian Summer has been chased out of the Pacific Northwest and contained on some reservation in Montana, doomed to sell its stretched-hide landscape paintings and feathered...
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Man Takes Discovery Channel Hostage, Demanding More Coverage of Daniel...
Bad books are the new violent video games.If you're not following the breaking news of a gunman taking over the Discovery Channel offices in Maryland, you should probably start now. Today has seen a...
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Wanted: Music InternWanted: Music Intern
The Mercury newsroom: Where Hitler mustaches are encouraged. Hello. We're looking for an intern. But not just any intern, we are seeking a music intern. Unlike other editorial word slaves, we won't...
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Wanted: Music Intern
The Mercury newsroom: Where Hitler mustaches are encouraged. Hello. We're looking for an intern. But not just any intern, we are seeking a music intern. Unlike other editorial word slaves, we won't...
View ArticleHere is Your TriMet Fare Increase Protest Song
Everyone got your nickle for today's absurd new bus ticket price, $2.05? Commenter Reymont posted this gem of a banjo-strumming fare-increase protest song yesterday on my post about the increase. May...
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It's Happening Tonight!It's Happening Tonight!
MAKE 'EM LAUGH—Comedy is OK returns for another bout at the brand-new Helium Comedy Club with a night of hand-picked stand-up from Portland's comedic darlings Andrew Michaan (who moonlights as a...
View ArticleI, AnonymousI, Anonymous
Stop and Go by Anonymous Portland drivers, listen up: QUIT, oh please QUIT stopping in the middle of the road to wave me through. Whether I am a pedestrian, a bicyclist, or another car, you are not...
View ArticleMy, What A Busy Week!My, What A Busy Week!
THURSDAY 9/2 EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS, LULACRUZA (Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell) See My, What a Busy Week!, pg. 15. GULFSONGS GULF COAST BENEFIT: CHRIS ROBLEY AND THE FEAR OF HEIGHTS,...
View ArticleHall MonitorHall Monitor
Contract talks between the police union and Portland officials are close to resumingand we might be invited in. by Denis C. Theriault I'LL BELIEVE IT when I see it—when I'm in the same room, watching...
View ArticleMonkey Kings and Severed HeadsMonkey Kings and Severed Heads
The singular genius of Alexis Gideon. by Ned Lannamann THERE ISN'T ANYONE doing anything remotely like Alexis Gideon. The songwriter/guitarist has just completed his second...
View ArticleFilm Shorts
In which we hit it and quit it. The American See review this issue. Various Theaters. Animal Kingdom A brutal, gripping story about a Melbourne crime family that makes the Corleones look like the...
View ArticleLetters to the EditorLetters to the Editor
Use your words. ALL THE PRETTY HORSES DEAR MERCURY—Comparing Jennifer Aniston to a Kentucky Derby thoroughbred is predictable and just plain wrong, Ann Romano [One Day at a Time, Aug 26]. Julia...
View ArticleState of ChoiceState of Choice
Christian-backed crisis pregnancy centers outnumber pro-choice clinics in Oregon. Is that so bad? by Sarah Mirk "I'm pregnant." I'm lying. I'm in a sun-filled room just off NE Broadway, taking up a...
View ArticleI'm Staying HomeI'm Staying Home
All hail Danny Trejo! by Bobby "Fatboy" Roberts AT A TIME when society's masculine ideal looks like a cross between Justin Bieber and a wet dog, I can't imagine future-dwellers will ever believe such...
View ArticleOne Day at a TimeOne Day at a Time
It's gossip time! Put on your Silly Bandz and meet us at the malt shoppe! by Ann Romano MONDAY, AUGUST 23 Welcome back to One Day at a Time, dears—where every week, yours truly scoops out the...
View ArticleNietzschian InspirationNietzschian Inspiration
Midori Hirose's new sculptures marry chaos and order. by Matt Stangel "DO YOU PUT CHICKENS IN IT?" a boy aged no more than four asks, looking up at Midori Hirose with a Cindy Lou Who innocence. "You...
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