What Can Straight People Do To Help?
Re: It Gets Better.A reader asks... What can straight people who are heartbroken by what has happened to Tyler Clementi and Billy Lucas do to make sure kids like them survive adolescence? Do you have...
View ArticleNew Justin Bieber Video!! (AKA Please Scroll to the Next Blog Post)
At last the misery of a nation can come to an end! After an unfathomable amount of time, the video for Justin Bieber's hit "U Smile" is finally here—and like all other things we desperately wait for,...
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Win Tickets to Caribou!Win Tickets to Caribou!
Caribou is a man. Actually, it's a band. A really, really good band led by Dan Snaith. A band whose live show is one of the most exciting tickets around town. And speaking of tickets, we've got a pair...
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Win Tickets to Caribou!
Want to win a pair of tickets to Caribou's show Wonder Ballroom on Tuesday, October 5? Do reindeer have antlers? Of course they do! Click on over to End Hits for your chance to win! Do it now, before...
View ArticleProject Runway Wrap Up!Project Runway Wrap Up!
First of all, I called it. This week's surprise was not dog models. :( It was family members. The reunions were meant to inspire the contestants' original textile designs which in turn would weave a...
View ArticleAdams Goes Public With His Anti-Gang Strategy
Mayor Sam Adams went public today with his push to crack down on gang violence in the wake of last weekend's fatal shooting downtown. He attended this morning's meeting of the Gang Violence Task Force...
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A kinder, gentler White House? With Rahm Emanuel leaving D.C. to make a grab for the Chicago Machine, President Obama installs a new/old chief of staff, Pete Rouse. Rouse, who ran Obama's Senate...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Dat'r, Old Light, Meyercord, Universal Studios Florida
FREE GEEK'S 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY: DAT'R , THE BEAUTY, DJ TED THIEMAN (Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside) Electrons, electrodes, and electric thingamajigs are going to be spinning out of control...
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Also Tonight in Music: Meercaz and TherapistsAlso Tonight in Music: Meercaz...
Tonight at the East End, beloved rockist rockers Meercaz will play their final Portland show before Meercaz main man Muzz Delgado leaves Portland behind for Oakland, CA next month. I've only lived in...
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The public has known for a few weeks that TriMet's planned light-rail extension to MIlwaukie was facing a giant funding gap, partly because fewer federal dollars than expected came through. But TriMet...
View ArticleTonight In Music: The Drums, The Hosannas, James Lidell, and more
THE DRUMS, SURFER BLOOD (Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell) It makes sense that Brooklyn band the Drums' self-titled debut opens with breathy moaning and lyrics about waiting on "the hood of your...
View ArticleRight Wing Donald Duck
So what exactly was the breaking point that drove Donald Duck to become a right wing teabagger? This smart-as-a-freaking-whip cartoon (mashed together with dozens of classic DD episodes and the voice...
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Who Killed Tyler Clementi?Who Killed Tyler Clementi?
There was another boy in the room with Tyler Clementi that night. That other boy, so far as we know, hasn't been publicly identified. He also hasn't committed suicide.A mob mentality has set in....
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Today in "Whoops": Verizon will refund millions of dollars to customers after—maybe accidentally?—charging them for data they didn't use. Whoops! The Vatican chastises Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi for...
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The 'Ack!' Fades to Black: Cathy Is No MoreThe 'Ack!' Fades to Black: Cathy...
Read yesterday's final installment of Cathy here. And to read MSNBC's trying-really-hard-to-be-nice Cathy obit, go here. (My favorite line, "You try being funny and meaningful and spot-on every day...
View ArticleYouth Proclaims That Dog as "Fucking Crazy"
POLL!Is that dog indeed "fucking crazy"? [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Today in Perfect Casting: Emma Stone as Mary Jane Watson.Today in Perfect...
AND LET US NEVER SPEAK OF KIRSTEN DUNST AGAIN. Admittedly, I was pretty apathetic about the prospect of a Spider-Man reboot—but combine this weekend's news of Stone's casting with the fact that Andrew...
View ArticleEven Supermodels Ride Bicycles
Question: Why does this NYTimes style article about "bicycle chic" make me want to barf? Is it: A) The increase of women on bikes finally picks up, but it's only fit to print couched in the angle of...
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Beth Ditto for Jean Paul Gaultier!Beth Ditto for Jean Paul Gaultier!
Congrats to Beth Ditto for her turn on the runway at Jean Paul Gaultier!! I'm feeling her happiness here, look how stoked she is: Charriau/WireImage I will, however, also echo the sentiment of British...
View ArticleHey Baby Takes The Phrase "Militant Feminism" To A Whole New Level
It's no secret that women are poorly represented in games. Like minorities and homosexuals, they're treated about as well as they are in the real world, only since the world of video games is only...
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