A blood-chilling review of Portland’s most horrifyingly haunted houses!
Dave Bow
Posted inFood and Drink
Twinkies = Heroin?
Last week sciencenews.org reported this really scary story about how junk food alters the pleasure sensors in rats’ brains causing them to act the same as rats addicted to heroin. According to a study by the Scripps Research Institute: After just five days on the junk food diet, rats showed “profound reductions” in the sensitivity […]
Posted inPortland
Hipster Fish Assault
OMG. What’s the weirdest part of this updated Oregonian story about the Portland stabber (that we briefly mentioned in Good Morning News a couple of days ago): 1. That it is about Mr. Fite stabbing his ex-girlfriend’s betta fish, DeLorean, in a jealous rage? 2. That he told police “If she can’t have me, then […]
Posted inEvents
Happenings at the Eagles Lodge
The East Portland Eagles Lodge #3256 at 4904 SE Hawthorne is advertising an event called the “Sip and Shop Social Club” next Wednesday, October 21st. I can’t find anything on the internet about it so I called the Lodge to ask the basic questions. A very old woman read to me from the same handout […]
Posted inMovies & TV
I’m So Excited! I’m So Scared! Showgirls 2 is Coming! (maybe)
The internet was burning up this weekend like a case of chlamydia with rumors that a sequel to Joe Eszterhas’ crapsterpiece Showgirls was on it’s way. The feature will reportedly be called Showgirls 2: A Story of Hope and will focus on the brother of (Rena Riffel‘s non-character) Hope, who is “searching for revenge following […]
Posted inPortland
Hump Up the Jam
Can you feel it? Portland’s got a serious case of blue balls. All this delayed gratification is HOTT, but I’m ready to Hump already. Thank goodness in less than two weeks some of the Rose City’s sexiest sexies will be stripping down and getting Biblical on Cinema 21‘s silver screen. That’s right! If you just […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Rare Variety
The Portland Latin American Film Festival Returns
The Portland Latin American Film Festival returns for its third year.
Posted inPortland
Humptown
Psst! Hey, you. No, not you, your friend. You at the end of the bar, what’s your name? Portland? What do your friends call you? Stumptown? Hehehehe. Oh nothing… nothing…Look Stump, I know we just met, but I feel like I can trust you. You have a very honest face, you know. Ok here goes: […]
Posted inEthics
5-year-old Kills Gator, Vows to Kill Again
Hey, remember a couple of weeks ago when that cheerleader, Arianne, killed an alligator and everyone was impressed by her ability to fit into two societal categories at once? Well hold onto your hats, because she’s got competition! Another alligator has been charged with the crimes of being big and existing. It was sentenced to […]
Posted inMusic
Naked Race for the Prize
Behind the Scenes at the Flaming Lips’ Nude Video Shoot
Naked bicyclists, pulsating vagina-balls, and boobs. Just another day
in a Flaming Lips video shoot.
Posted inMusic
Flame On! Shirt Off!
Word spread through the Mercury offices like flame through a lip: Wayne Coyne and the rest of his famous band, The Flaming Lips, were up on Mt. Tabor shooting a music video surrounded by naked bicyclers. I ditched my car at the entrance and ran to the top of the park to join other sweaty […]