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Local Slutty Poodle Puppet News

Hello, fall. Hello, cold weather. Hello, streets filled with yellow leaves. Hello kickass stuff to do: This week we got puppets! Puppets are fucking ugly, retarded, and creepy, right? Not when it’s Saturday’s Indie Puppet Night at Acme. Bruce Orr started the night to give local puppeteers an avenue for no-holds-barred, uncensored puppetry. Says the […]

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Local Music News Encased in Ice, Ant Farms, and Baked Muffins

So, last week I reported on a post from writer Jessica Hopper’s site about American Apparel owner Dov Charney’s supposed sexist business practices. Due to an editorial flub up, the quote I used was attributed to both Hopper and Jane magazine. The quote was, in fact, all Hopper’s, as Charney pointed out when he emailed […]

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Local Music News! Gossip! Slanderizing!

We were walking through SE, talking quietly and watching big steely gray thunderheads move over downtown. “That’d be a great house for it,” he said, pointing at a big, yellow Victorian on the corner. “For what?” “You don’t know? Real World: Portland—it’s coming next year!” I can’t confirm this, and it may be a total […]

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Local Music News and/or Blasphemous Rumors

I’m hearing gossip pounding like African drums, dark rumblings echoing from basements in Southeast, blasting out from porches in North Portland. After 11 years, the Dandy Warhols may be breaking up! Deepthroatic sources say the band is “super bummed” by the reaction to their latest record, Odditorium or Warlords of Mars (which www.pitchforkmedia.com gave a […]

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