Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd: They Came Together! To make a terrible movie!
Alison Hallett
Alison Hallett served nobly as the Mercury's arts editor from 2008-2014. Her proud legacy lives on.
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Books in Pockets
Future Tense’s Tiny Collaboration with Scout Books
Future Tense and Scout Books join forces for a series of pocket-sized poetry and prose.
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Grownup Pilgrimage
Scott Pilgrim‘s Creator Tackles the Adult World in Seconds
With Seconds, the creator of Scott Pilgrim takes on grownup problems.
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It’s Happening Tonight!
MUSIC—The mudflap country-rock of Natural Child is perfect for kickin’ back, boozin’, tokin’, or whatever sort of trouble you feel like getting into. If your musical heart lies somewhere between the cow pastures and the punk-rock basement—but cowpunk never made a lick o’ sense to you—this Nashville trio is exactly what you’ve been looking for. […]
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It’s Denis Theriault’s Worst. Night. Ever!
Welcome back to the Blogtown series we like to call “Worst. Night. Ever.” Every Wednesday when we’re discussing our event picks for the week, someone suggests an event which is the equivalent of throwing acid in our eyes—but we also realize a more enlightened person might love it! Hence, these “risky” events are often unfairly […]
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Press Club to Close July 20
Clinton Street café/venue/crepe joint Press Club is closing next week, per an update on their Facebook page: I am sorry to say that the finance director of the Press Club has decided to close the doors on July 20th. It is in the hopes of assessing the fiscal aspects of the business and restructure the […]
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Lena Dunham’s Coming to Portland
Don’t pretend you don’t like her. SHE’S GREAT. Dunham is touring with her new essay collection Not That Kind of Girl, and she’ll be at the Newmark in October in conversation with Carrie Brownstein. Unfortunately for everyone, tickets are $38 PLUS a whopping $10.50 in “service fees” (what the actual fuck?), thus pricing the target […]
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Alison Does Standup: A Beginner’s Guide to Open Mic Comedy. Kind Of.
tldr video’s after the jump Last week, Mercury readers voted to send me to perform standup comedy at an open mic. And I was okay with that! It was easily my top choice from my Worst. Night. Ever. options; it would make the most interesting writeup, and it might give me some fresh insight into […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
MUSIC—Baltimore two-piece Wye Oak have reinvented themselves with Shriek, a synth-heavy album created while drummer Andy Stack was living here in Portland. Singer Jenn Wasner ditched her guitar in favor of bass, creating an altogether new sound for her songs, which’ll no doubt take on Wye Oak’s customary live magnetism. NLw/Pattern Is Movement; Doug Fir, […]
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What Are You Doing this Weekend?
Alison Hallett: “Tonight I’m seeing David Huntsberger at Curious Comedy and on Sunday I’m embarrassing myself for the amusement of the internet. And I’m going to read Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley’s new graphic novel Seconds. (He’ll be at Powell’s signing copies next Friday.)” Courtney Ferguson: “Not much to report this weekend… except that […]
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Emily Kendal Frey and Patricia Lockwood at Powell’s Tonight
If you’re a fan of contemporary poetry, you can’t do better than tonight’s reading: Emily Kendal Frey and Patricia Lockwood are at the downtown Powell’s, reading from their new collections: A FEW YEARS BACK, two debut poetry collections made Portland noteworthy to the minds of the nation’s literati, though for different reasons. Portland poet Emily […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
TIKI MUSIC—The annual Tiki Kon is a weekend-long festival celebrating everything Polynesian kitsch—including pig roasting, pool swimming, but mostly fancy cocktail drinking. And it all starts tonight at the Tiki Kon Kickoff Party, starring surf rock legends Satan’s Pilgrims, Seattle’s Lushy, burlesque by Meghan Mayhem and Tana the Tattooed Lady… and tropical cocktails, of course! […]