Wow, Saturday’s Rose City Rollers home team scrambles (mmm… scrambles) were a battle royale. But before all the hip checks broke out, the High Rollers’ Elvis-y mascot, The King, sang the National Anthem. And speaking of hip checks… he woulda done the Colonel proud. The festivities opened with a special exhibition scramble by the queer […]
Courtney Ferguson
Mercury copy chief and appreciator of the most sophisticated form of comedy: PUNS!
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Roller Derby Weekend
Make my derby scrambled this weekend! It’s a series of heated end-of-season inner-league scrambles with the smashletes of all four Rose City Rollers teams. Tonight: Guns N Rollers take on the Break Neck Betties, while the High Rollers duke it out with the Heartless Heathers. My predictions: Break Neck Betties and the High Rollers—both teams […]
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Last Night to See Vertigo!
Get thee to the Laurelhurst tonight for their last showing of Hitchcock’s Vertigo. See Jimmy Stewart lust after a corpse, admire Kim Novak’s cinnamon-bun hairstyle, marvel over Saul Bass’ beautiful title work, and get ear-drenched by Bernard Herrmann’s haunting score. I repeat: This is your last day, peeps. Laurelhurst Theater, 2735 E Burnside, tonight 7:15 […]
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Eagles, Beer, Zydeco, and Glowing Bugs
I’m not sure why this combination of words is hitting my sweet spot, but the prospect of Eagles, beer, zydeco, and phosphorescent insects, all in one location, makes me kind of giddy. This Friday at the magical Eagles Lodge (4904 SE Hawthorne), professional entomologist Don Ehlen brings his collection of insects, arthropods, and invertebrates for […]
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Tonight in Music
Still enjoying your holiday weekend? Not me, I’m slaving over a hot Mac (and watching some firefighters play b-ball from my office window, so it’s not all bad). Anyway… here’s some stuff you can do tonight: Al’s Den—Kevin Devine, 7 pm, free Branx—Doom, Hellshock, Deathcharge, Religious War, Ripper, 7:30 pm, $8-10, all ages Doug Fir—Biffy […]
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Crawl into My Warm Snuggly Tummy, Said the Bear
My Name Is Robby. What’s Yours? Hello boys and girls. Welcome to Bear Affair, where a friendly bear in bright blue overalls and a trucker hat invites you into his warm, safe belly to whirl you around in lulling circles while carnies look on in stoic delight. Yep, this little guy will extend his belly […]
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Faerie Tales
Enchanting Love and Loss in Chris Adrian’s The Great Night
Chris Adrian’s The Great Night explores the enchanted terrors of love and loss.
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People Who Need People
We Are What We Are (and We’re Cannibals)
We Are What We Are explores familial strife and the other white meat.
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The Skinny on Mini
Happy 106th Birthday, Oaks Park! Just when you thought Oaks Park couldn’t get any better, they give us something Portland was in dire need of—glorious al fresco putt-putt. Yep that’s right, to celebrate their birthday the fine folks at the park are opening an outdoor mini-golf course, right by the rink on the river, with […]
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Roller Derby Weekend
Why hello, derby dames and dudes. It’s time for another rousing roundup of roller derby action this weekend. There’s going to be a three-alarm fire tonight at the Hangar at Oaks Park, when our all-star ladies in black and purple take on the Texecutioners of Austin’s Texas Rollergirls (ooooh, they have pretty pictures—and hey, there’s […]
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Tonight in Music
Dante’s—Bad Manners, The Israelites, Original Middle Age Ska Enjoy Club, 9 pm, $18-20 Doug Fir—Buffalo Tom, The Heavenly States, 9 pm, $17-20 Ella Street Social Club—And I Was Like What?, Low-Fi, The Lion the Tamer, Tiger House, 9 pm, $5 Hawthorne Theatre—Devin the Dude, The Coughee Brothaz, Mikey Vegaz, 8 pm, $16-20, all ages Holocene—Studio […]
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Tonight in Music
OMG guys, our office is so nice! In other news: Backspace—Death Songs, River Banks, On the Stairs, 9 pm, $5, all ages Dante’s—The Greenhornes, Jeff the Brotherhood, The Night Beats, The Angry Orts, 9 pm, $13.50-15 Doug Fir—Hayes Carll, Quiet Life, 9 pm, $13-15 Holocene—Ghost Animal, Prescription Pills, Hausu, Period Romance, 8:30 pm, $5 Mission […]