The creeping death of Grails’ Doomsdayer’s Holiday.
Ezra Ace Caraeff
Ezra Ace Caraeff is the former Music Editor for the Mercury, and spent nearly a third of his life working at the paper. More importantly, he is the owner of Olive, the Mercury’s unofficial office dog. His writing has appeared in The Fader, The Stranger, The Onion's A.V. Club, ESPN's TrueHoop network, and countless fanzines that are thankfully long out of print. He makes a mean tofu scramble and yes, Ace is really his middle name.
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Once More With Feeling
Loch Lomond
Fresh from the studio, Loch Lomond prepares their next record.
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Blazers vs Warriors – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden–where for some reason every preseason game feels like the playoffs–as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the Golden State Warriors. After last night’s clowning of a hapless Kings team, the Blazers are UNDEFEATED in the meaningless preseason (1-0), and this unbiased reporter feels confident in going on the record and […]
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Blazers vs Kings – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as it’s the most unimportant important NBA game in recent memory–the Portland Trail Blazers versus the Sacramento Kings. Granted, pre-season basketball is not as essential as the Presidential debates, or a rerun of According to Jim (on in 30 minutes on KPDX! Synopsis: It’s Cheryl and Jim’s anniversary, and one […]
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The Dandy Warhols Need You to Make Them a New Website. Will Pay You Garbage.
The greatest Portland band ever, The Dandy Warhols, are in need of a new web designer (or to them, an ALL CAPS “SUPER NERD”) to make them a fancy new website and they’ve taken to Craigslist: The Dandy Warhols are in desperate need of a SUPER NERD to help us make our web presence work […]
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Remix Sarah Palin, You Betcha
Attention all DJs and rabid John McCain supporters: Now is your chance to remix the verbal skills of our (possible) next Vice President, Sarah “Russia’s Neighbor” Palin. Help Sarah Make Sense offers up a full download of the audio from Palin’s VP debate performance for you to rearrange, mash-up, or just take horrifically out of […]
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Decemberists and Pals to Rock Against Republicans
Already snug in the back pocket of Obama (say hello to Bruce Springsteen for me), Colin Meloy and Chris Funk from the Decemberists are now using their star power, and political smarts, to campaign for Jeff Merkley. Running for Senate against Gordon Smith (seen here at a khaki convention with George W. Bush), Merkley’s campaign […]
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Why TV Was Better When We Were Kids
I liked television more when I was younger. Most likely because I had 8-14 hours of free time every day to watch it, but still, even with fancy gadgets like TiVo and hi-def screens, it’s just not the same. Plus, I’m convinced there is nothing currently on television more appealing than this glorious show (from […]
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This Week’s Mercury Music Section
Another week, another Mercury music section to flip through while you slip on that cow outfit of yours. Whatever happens, just don’t get arrested, okay? Please, oh, please listen to this new David Banner track posted below. Despite promo photos that include both ATVs and automatic weapons, Banner transcends his hiphop peers and creates some […]
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Ten Dollar Weezer
Yeah sure, they aren’t what they used to be, but if you act now (well, technically tomorrow) you can see Weezer live at the Memorial Coliseum for a mere $10. Cheap! Cheap! Cheap! On Thursday October 2nd, from 10am to 10pm, go to this site and enter the promo code of porkandbeans. That’s it. $10 […]