Put another fucking bird on it, Variety is reporting that IFC will renew Portlandia for a second season. The show is currently in the middle of his six run opening season, and the renewal will bring about 10 more episodes. What will they cover in season number two? Vegan bike joust? Farmers market produce? Obama […]
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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You’ve Got Mail. Juggalo Mail.
Awhile back, Boss Humphrey outed me as not only a Juggalo (that’s bad), but as a breeder (that’s worse) as well. Although that post is over a year old, it’s new to commenter “KarmaKarnival,” who left this message for me: LMAO thanks Ezra for showing people Lo’s and lette’s can be awesome parents,not just a […]
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PDX Pop Now! Announces 2011 Dates and New Venue
The mightiest of Portland’s all-age music events has set a date for 2011’s festival and pulled up stakes as well. This year’s PDX Pop Now! festival will go down on July 22-24, but it won’t be at Rotture. Their new home is nearby though, seven blocks away at Refuge PDX (116 SE Yamhill). The lineup […]
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Spotted: A Harlem Globetrotter Outside the Mercury Offices
There has been a Harlem Globetrotter sighting outside our office! It might have to do with our neighbors—KATU, not Club 21—or perhaps he is here to challenge my team of basketball playing robots, The Invincibles. I imagine that would look a little something like this…
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This Week’s Mercury Music Section
Peter Blanchard Another week, another Mercury music section to ignore while you watch Jesse Jackson meet Cannibal Corpse. That is clearly the most evil thing that band has ever done. Awhile back when I besmirched the good name of Floater, a fan of theirs demanded I “go make out with the Builders and the Butchers” […]
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It’s the End of the World as We Know It
The Builders and the Butchers Welcome the Reckoning
The Builders and the Butchers welcome the reckoning.
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For Some Reason 95.5 Will Be Broadcasting Dodgers Games
Well, this doesn’t make any sense. Alpha Broadcasting’s KXTG (that’s 95.5″The Game” to us Portlanders)—the radio home of the Portland Trail Blazers, Oregon Ducks, Portland Timbers, and the John Canzano “Talk Loudly and Say Outlandish Things” radio hour—will be now broadcasting Dodgers games throughout the 2011 MLB season. Take it away publicist with who is […]
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Win Tickets to Sebadoh!
Over at the End Hits Office for Free Tickets and Awkward Hugs (EHOFTAH) we are giving away a pair of tickets to see Sebadoh and Quasi tomorrow night at the Wonder Ballroom. Win them here.
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This is Exactly How I Picture Patty Mills Getting a Haircut
The Blazers’ clownish point guard gets a trim. That is all. h/t: DJ Rush
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Ke$ha’s Portland Show Moves From the Crystal Ballroom to the Roseland Theater
Looks like next week’s Portland stopover for “The Get $leazy Tour” will have a new home. Ke$ha’s Tuesday, February 15 date has been relocated from the Crystal Ballroom to the Roseland Theater. Why the move? We have no idea. Perhaps the Crystal wasn’t cool with Ke$ha’s onstage backdrop of rotting goat carcasses (Oh sorry, I […]
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How Many Male Drummers Stand While Playing?
Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats Pardon the unapologetic music dorkery, but this is the sort of thing that the staff of End Hits obsesses over: How many male drummers stand while playing? We were reminded of this following the sad news about Bobby Z (“We’re a band… right?”), and while we can list […]
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Blazers vs. Bulls – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the Chicago Bulls. Before we get to the injury woes of the Blazers—shocking, right?—and the return of Brandon Roy later this week—okay, that was shocking—let’s talk about the Bulls. Or as the great Harvey Sid FIsher puts it, “Talkin’ ’bout the bully bull […]