FAVE THINGS—Musical mastermind Mike McGonigal (of Yeti magazine) curates tonight’s dizzying A Few of My Favorite Things celebration. Included on this wildly diverse bill are underground icons Pierced Arrows, the debut performance of Stay Calm (members of Parenthetical Girls and Explode into Colors), and more DJs than you can toss a Technics turntable at. EACw/Ilyas […]
Courtney Ferguson
Mercury copy chief and appreciator of the most sophisticated form of comedy: PUNS!
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Ezra Ace Caraeff: Welcome to the Discomfort Zone
Just because he’s amusing and has a cute dog, let’s not take it easy on Ezra. Let’s make sure he has as awkward a time as Erik. A much worse time than Marjorie. May he have the opposite of my delightful night out with the foot fetishists. To recap the premise of the Discomfort Zone: […]
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Discomfort Zone: Where I Fear to Tread
My foot in sunnier climes. I had a great time at Footnight, a night for foot fetishists. Frankly, it was delightful. Nary a creepy moment. Good food, plentiful drinks, interesting conversation. Take that, Schadenfreudesters of Blogtown. Oh, I wore the knee-high boots and I got propositioned once. After a whiskey frontload, I got off the […]
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What Kind of Footwear Should I Wear to a Foot Fetish Night?
As you jerkwads of Blogtown decreed, I’m off to Footnight tonight for a foot fetish party tonight. Please help me decide what to put on my feet for the evening—I’m really toeing the line on this one (PUNS ARE WHAT YOU DESERVE).
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SW Ankeny Gears Up to Go Car-Free
Behold the pictorial proof: I can almost taste the sweet sunshiny patio beer. Sarah reports the closed-off SW Ankeny will open tomorrow for complete patio enjoyment. A walk-by today showed doughnut-loving tourists already camped out on the SW 3rd side, while the rest of the street is almost good to go. Some past reporting.
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Tonight in Music
Backspace—Sexy Water Spiders, The Shivas, The Blacklights, Stankbot Tyranny, 9 pm, $5, all ages Doug Fir—Archeology, Hurtbird, Water & Bodies, Boy Eats Drum Machine, 9 pm, $10 East End—Spellcaster, Skelator, Cemetery Lust, Raptor, 9 pm, $6 Hawthorne Theatre—Alkaline Trio, Smoking Popes, Dead Country, 8:30 pm, $20-23, all agesMississippi Studios—David Bazan, Rocky Votolato, 9 pm, $15 […]
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Rush to Rushmore
It’s an action-packed movie night, between Harry Potter and His Dastardly Shallows, Goonies at Oregon Park, Up in Smoke at the Laurelhurst, and the bleep-bloop-bleep arcade fun at the Hollywood Theatre, but I’m taking Jamie’s lead and going to the last night of Rushmore at the Academy. It’s Max and Bill Murray on the big […]
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Tonight in Music
Bossanova Ballroom—Hiphop Food Drive: S1kOnes, Tragedy 503, Speaker Minds, Bad Habitat, Cool Nutz, Stars of Bizzare, Hives Inquiry Squad, J. Ritz & Saywords, Rose Bent, Mitknight, The Real Brown Recluse, Destro, Elevated, Elle MC, 7 pm Branx—Poison Idea, Verbal Abuse, Embrace the Kill, Belligerents, Puke ‘n’ Rally, 8:30 pm, $12-15 Dante’s—The Fleshtones, Charming Birds, 9:30 […]
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Tonight in Music
East End—Bare Wires, The Outdoorsmen, Taxi Boys, 9 pm, $8 Mississippi Studios—Group Doueh, Dusu Mali Band, DJ Globalruckus, 9 pm, $15-18 Radio Room—Pigeons, Like a Villain, DeAngelo Raines, Dangerous Doug, DJ Cheango, 8 pm Tonic Lounge—Knifey Spoony, Youthbitch, Midnite Snaxxx, Forsorcerers, 9:30 pm, $5 Alberta Rose Theatre—Satellite Ensemble, Hannah Penn, Galen Clark, Groovy Wallpaper, 8 […]
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OMSI After Dark: The Beer-y Version
Science! Getting drunk is not only a magical experience, it’s scientific too! Just ask the fine drunkards at OMSI tonight, where they’ll be hosting an adults-only evening of drinking and sciencing. Learn all about the physics of beer pong, view hops and yeast under a microscope (am I the only one that would love to […]
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Tonight in Music
Doug Fir—Blonde Redhead, Nosaj Thing, 9 pm, $20-22 Mississippi Studios—Everest, The Watson Twins, He’s My Brother She’s My Sister, 9 pm, $10-12 Tube—MonarquesValentine’s—Drew Grow & The Pastors’ Wives, Them Hills, Duover, 9 pm White Eagle—Chris Robley & The Fear of Heights, The Dimes, Sarah Jackson Holman, 8:30 pm, free Between Blonde Redhead and the Watson […]
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Blast from the Past: Cibo Matto Video
Because a squawking chicken woke me up this morning and I’m going to Cibo Matto tonight at the Doug Fir, the duo’s “Know Your Chicken” has been on a perpetual loop from hell in my brain head. So let’s watch Michel Gondry’s awesome palindrome-esque video for their song “Sugar Water” to try to dislodge this […]