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It's Happening Tonight!It's Happening Tonight!
SIT DOWN—Best known for their '90s Stateside hit "Laid," Mancunian band James is no one-hit wonder, boasting a long string of impressive albums and smart UK hits to their credit. On the back of the...
View ArticleBest Cover Songs You've Never Heard Of?
Buzzfeed has The Best Cover Songs You've Never Heard Of, which includes this number: Awesomeness of this piece of art notwithstanding, what the hell does Buzzfeed know? What are your best cover songs...
View ArticleGlenn Beckwatch: Here's What's Wrong with Glenn Beck
Some of you guessed that he was going to get a sex change or that he was going to share a "Whitman Sampler" (HA!). But now the "truth" is out: Apparently, Glenn Beck is losing feeling in his hands and...
View ArticleProject Runway Wrap Up
Hey y'all, Marjorie couldn't make it this week, so I'll be starting our Project Runway discussion. Coming off the weepiest episode in PR history, I was kind of expecting all the drama to be taken down...
View ArticleProject Runway Wrap Up
Hey y'all, Marjorie couldn't make it this week, so I'll be starting our Project Runway discussion. Coming off the weepiest episode in PR history, I was kind of expecting all the drama to be taken down...
View ArticleChristine O'Donnell: She's Not "You" After All
Actually, Christine O'Donnell, "America" is a 300 lb., bearded, diabetic man. I guess you're going to have to be someone else? Hat tips to Blogtown Tipper Oregometry! [ Subscribe to the comments on...
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Is This the Cover of Tina Fey's New Essay Collection?Is This the Cover of...
The Awl says it is: Those man hands make me want to marry her even more. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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White Hinterland and Zach GalifianakisWhite Hinterland and Zach Galifianakis
While watching It's Kind of a Funny Story last week, I was struck about how well the film incorporated music into various scenes. Most notably there was Pink Mountaintops' excellent "Tourist In Your...
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Jeff Pendergraph Out for the SeasonJeff Pendergraph Out for the Season
The season hasn't even started yet, but the Portland Trail Blazers already have their first crippling injury. After being wheeled off the court last night in a preseason loss to Utah, Jeff Pendergraph...
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Download Episode 13 of the Mercury Music Hour
Oh, hello there. Guess what? We've got a fresh batch of Mercury Music Hour, just for you. The Mercury Music Hour broadcasts at noon on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday every single week on 910 AM, on HD...
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This Weekend: DIY Farming Manifesto Release PartyThis Weekend: DIY Farming...
Due to Alison-error, this book release party on Sunday didn't make it into the paper this week, which is a shame, because it sounds like fun. Publication Studio is releasing an illustrated DIY farming...
View ArticleBlitzen Trapper - "Tree" Video
"Tree" was always my favorite song from Blitzen Trapper's Destroyer of the Void, and looks like I am not alone, since the song now has a fancy little video (featuring Alela Diane) to accompany it....
View ArticleGay and Lesbian Film Festival Hosts Howl Tonight (With James Franco on Skype!)
Cinema 21 is kicking it in style tonight—not only is Howl director Gus Van Sant coming to the 7pm screening of his film tonight but dreamy, dreamy James Franco is attending the screening via live...
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Jersey Shore Wrap Up: "Girls Like That"Jersey Shore Wrap Up: "Girls Like That"
Are you guys DTF? I'm DTF. Let's talk about Jersey Shore. Cabs'uh heeeuh! Cab's'uh heeeuh! Tee-shyuuurt taaaiime! Every time I use one of Jersey Shore's non-starter catch phrases MTV pays me a nickel....
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Comedy This WeekendComedy This Weekend
First off, there are still a few free tickets left for Nick Thune tonight at Helium. Simply email promos@heliumcomedy.com and tell 'em which show—early or late—you'd like to see on either Friday or...
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PFW Tonight!PFW Tonight!
If you decide to come to Vigor Industrial Shipyard, 5555 N Channel Ave. TONIGHT, for PFW, you'll be in for a whole lot of pretty. With the likes of La Vie by Michelle DeCourcy, Suzabelle, Stephanie D...
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Monica Drake + Andy Mingo + Wordstock = Portland SynergyMonica Drake + Andy...
Maybe you've heard of Monica Drake, author of Clown Girl and Portland resident. The film rights to that novel, which Chuck Palahniuk called the best novel of 2007 (though he's biased, he did write the...
View ArticleAre Fox News Reporters the New Catholic Priests?
Award-winning Fox 5 news reporter Charles Leaf was charged with sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl at his Wyckoff home, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said. Leaf is being held in the Bergen...
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This Week's Mercury Film Section.This Week's Mercury Film Section.
NEVER LET ME GO "Y'know, that recruiter guy from the Army of the Republic makes a pretty convincing case...." NEVER LET ME GO Nice try, Ishiguro! You hack. You aren't fooling anybody. BURIED Ryan...
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Subject to Season: Dark WaveSubject to Season: Dark Wave
More details are in for the October Installment of Subject to Season at the Ford Building (2505 SE 11th #106). The open studio event has a "dark wave theme," and will feature Haxel Cox, Fieldwork,...
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