Profile’s Sam Shepard season finally gets to the good stuff.
Alison Hallett
Alison Hallett served nobly as the Mercury's arts editor from 2008-2014. Her proud legacy lives on.
Posted inArtsy
Photos from the Steam Radio Syndicate’s Debut Broadcast
In last week’s paper, I wrote about the Steam Radio Syndicate, a new audio collective that’s taken up residence on an old WWII tugboat just north of St. Johns. On Friday, the Syndicate had their coming-out party: A four-hour-long show on KBOO featuring music, readings, and theatrical performance, all broadcast live. The show was closed […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
MUSIC/SECRETS—Cure your summertime Monday blahs with Banana Stand’s series of weekly secret shows! Every Monday through Labor Day, Double Dragon will open at 6 pm with a special menu and discounted drinks; then, at 8 pm, a TOP SECRET band—specially picked by the folks at Banana Stand Media—takes the stage. The series kicks off tonight […]
Posted inBooks
Portland Sci-Fi Author Jay Lake Dead at 49
Portlander Jay Lake was a prolific, Campbell Award-winning science fiction writer and editor, the author of ten novels and more than 300 short stories. When diagnosed with colon cancer in 2008, he made his struggle with the illness public, detailing the effects of treatment on his blog; in his final days, the blog was maintained […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
What Are You Doing this Weekend?
CAMERON ESPOSITO Tix are still available for the late show if you forgot to make plans for tonight! Courtney Ferguson: “I’m going to bang it up at a couple roller derby practices this weekend, where I will undoubtedly acquire some fresh bruises. I’m also headed to Mississippi Studios tonight to see charming-as-get-out Cameron Esposito’s stand-up […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
COMEDY—We’re in the Cameron Esposito fan club. We even cut our hair in a super-hip mullet just like hers. (It looks better on her.) Esposito is a brilliant young stand-up, and if you don’t know that already, you clearly haven’t been reading the Mercury. Tonight she’s recording a comedy album for the tastemakers at Kill […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
STREET FAIR—Summer’s upon us, friends! Let’s gather on NE Alberta, listen to music, ogle crafts of varying quality, and watch as Mayor Charlie Hales tries to rein in Last Thursday for the second year in a row. Tonight’s festivities end an hour earlier than past events. At 9 pm sharp, got it? And no illegal […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
2013/2014 Drammy Nominees Announced
The Drammys are Portland’s local theater awards—there’s a big ceremony every year at the Crystal Ballroom, and all of Portland’s theater community gets dressed up and gets tipsy. This year, for the first time since 1999, nominees have been announced in advance, so we can all place bets ahead of time on whether Allen Nause […]
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En Brogue
Slapstick Does Heavy Lifting in Playboy
The Playboy of the Western World is a hard-to-parse classic.
Posted inBooks
For British Eyes Only
A Cranky Brit Infiltrates the US Military
The US military, through the eyes of the endearingly cranky Geoff Dyer.
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It’s Happening Tonight!
BOOKS—Elizabeth Warren, the liberal superstar and senior senator from Massachusetts, saw the financial meltdown coming before most people, but says her warnings went unheard. So she ran for office, won, and has since done her fair share to bring the country’s financial swindlers to heel. It’s a great story, told in her new book, A […]