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The Mayor's Inexact Science of Policymaking
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The Rose City Rollers: Just Your Average All-Girl, Ass-Kicking Roller Derby Team
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Judge Puts Brakes on Measure 37
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System of a Down are Fascist Clowns
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After a lease snafu that nearly left Homeland, uh, homeless three days before
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Capote, predictably enough, is about Truman Capote—the film follows the writer during the creation of In Cold Blood, a nonfiction novel derived from Capote's deep investigation of a Kansas family's murder. While In Cold Blood made
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Hooligans Is All About Fists
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There are few things in cinema more tortured than videogame adaptations, of which Doom is the
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Charlize Theron Almost Cries in North Country
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24 Hours on Craigslist is structured around a series of interviews with
- by Alison Hallett, Marjorie Skinner and Michael Filtz
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Artists Repertory Theatre's (ART) newly revealed second-stage space is glossy and gorgeous, as expected. The stage is
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Some day, in the not-so-distant future, when Portland has finally
- by Justin Wescoat Sanders
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With Wickett's Remedy, Myla Goldberg has followed up her acclaimed debut, Bee Season (soon to be a major movie starring Richard Gere), with a story about the massive and nearly forgotten 1918 Spanish Influenza Epidemic in Boston. Set against the
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Adam Gopnik is a witty, wonderful essayist, with a knack for pointing out amusing
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It's common knowledge that the Mercury loves to make fun of the Pearl District. Lord how we loathe those yuppie yupsters with their yuppity-yup mobiles, and any restaurant that starts up in that condo-addled, godforsaken craphole has an uphill field to till
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The internet fucking blows. I mean sure—it's got a pretty good publicist or whatever, but when all of the hootin' and hollerin' everybody's always making about the
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The full story of many a musical comeback typically involves years spent working outside of show business. Jazz singer
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WHAT'S ROCKABILLY'S PROB? From Gene Vincent to the Stray Cats to the Cramps, its aesthetic is pure cartoon. Trashy girls
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Kayo Dot Relieves Your Seasonal Slump
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Local Music News! Gossip! Slanderizing!
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Pullout: Best Party Ever
- by Justin Wescoat Sanders
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Pullout: Best Party Ever
- by The Mercury Party Squad