I'm Staying Home: Mercury Video PicksI'm Staying Home: Mercury Video Picks
Other than A Hard Day's Night and Yellow Submarine, the Beatles haven't successfully been captured on film. by Ned Lannamann WITH THIS WEEK'S release of Nowhere Boy, an account of John Lennon's...
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Dog Gone It Please leave your fucking dog at home. I am tired of walking into a restaurant, bar, or grocery store and seeing people dragging their fucking dogs around. If you need to take it for a...
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Shining some light on the Portland Art Museum's outreach efforts. by Matt Stangel NUDE GRECO-ROMAN WRESTLING, art-inspired craft beers, live sets by Guidance Counselor, Wampire, and Sallie Ford; it...
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Introducing the Smalldoggies reading series. by Alison Hallett Smalldoggies magazine is a PDX-based online concern founded by writer/artist Matty Byloos—originally a print magazine based in...
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The Portland Latin American Film Festival returns for its fourth year. by Brad Buckner A WELCOME ADDITION to Portland's sometimes racially homogenized film scene, the Portland Latin American Film...
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Stone isn't nearly as profound as it thinks it is. by Erik Henriksen I IMAGINE there is only one thing in the world more tiresome than sitting through a movie that thinks it is better than it actually...
View ArticleLittle IncentiveLittle Incentive
If you've read Freakonomics, you can skip the movie. by Denis C. Theriault FREAKONOMICS BEGAN LIFE as a New York Times Magazine article and blossomed into a 2005 book you could gift to a Luddite...
View ArticleMore Than MechanicsMore Than Mechanics
Tahni Holt explores the feedback loop of culture in Culture Machine. by Noah Dunham It's the night before tech and Tahni Holt's Culture Machine is missing a dancer, its original lighting designer, a...
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Contemporary cartoonists, in their own words. by Alison Hallett BY REPUTATION cartoonists are introverted, antisocial nerds who spend most of their lives in their basement studios.... This stereotype...
View ArticleMy, What A Busy Week!My, What A Busy Week!
It's your week—here's how to busy it. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14 THE ANSWER—Die Antwoord may be (a lot) more art project than authentic Zef—the South African trashy-chic scene around which they fashion...
View ArticleLovers Are for LoversLovers Are for Lovers
Lovers return with the slow-burning Dark Light. by Alison Hallett "IT'S ALL DEAD energies in this town/It's all pedantry and pedigree in this town/I needed an answer/I needed a song/I wanna be a...
View ArticleThe Record CollectorThe Record Collector
How one of the world's largest collections of vinyl ended up in Portland. by Ezra Ace Caraeff BY THE TIME Craig Moerer returned home in 1974, his Ford Galaxie was overflowing with vinyl. Six weeks and...
View ArticleOne Day at a TimeOne Day at a Time
Ashton and Demis open relationship (EWW!) and Madonnas scary hands (EWWW!). by Ann Romano MONDAY, OCTOBER 4 Believe it or not, some celebrities actually send their children to school. Madonna's...
View ArticleThis Is Just a Modern Rock SongThis Is Just a Modern Rock Song
Belle and Sebastian's latest confirms their consistency. by Ned Lannamann THE THING YOU'RE going to hear about the new Belle and Sebastian album, Write About Love, is that it's one of the "good" ones,...
View ArticleCan't Stop, Won't StopCan't Stop, Won't Stop
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger: Woody Allen's back. Again. by Zac Pennington FOR ALL THE SAP AND SCHLOCK the man has forced upon his increasingly estranged public over the last 150 years or so,...
View ArticleCycle of ViolenceCycle of Violence
With his latest anti-gang effort, Mayor Sam Adams is ripping a page from the city's past. by Denis C. Theriault SOMETIME IN the next few days, Portland police officials will lay out the contours of...
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This Week's Mercury Music Section
Teenage Fanclub does not look like this anymore. Thank God. Another week, another Mercury music section to read while you sin against God with your new Lady Gaga sex toy. Just be glad they don't make...
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This Week's Mercury Music SectionThis Week's Mercury Music Section
Teenage Fanclub does not look like this anymore. Thank God. Another week, another Mercury music section to read while you sin against God with your new Lady Gaga sex toy. Just be glad they don't make...
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Battlestar and Harry Potter Exhibits are Coming to Seattle. Who's Up for the...
Why yes, I am awesome at photoshop. (Also: apologies.) Two things you might find interesting, Portland nerds, seeing as how Seattle is fairly close: First, Harry Potter: The Exhibition at the Pacific...
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November HappeningsNovember Happenings
October isn't even halfway over, but I've got a number of things penciled in for November. Details are still foggy on some of these, but nonetheless: — On November 4, Popina will celebrate the grand...
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