Awhile back FilmDrunk—our most favoritest website on the entire internets—created a series of Photoshopped fictional food trucks, in honor of a real cart in Arkansas entitled Grillennium Falcon (clearly they never heard of Happy Grillmore). The Rom-Com series was cute, but I’m more a fan of their action movie carts they posted this morning. I […]
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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This Week’s Mercury Music Section
Ben Moon Talkdemonic Another week, another Mercury music section to shed a tear into while you fill the air with the sounds of The Path Of Totality, the new dubstep album from Korn. Yes, that really exists. For a couple years it seemed like Talkdemonic was done for. But just when we thought the instrumental […]
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Back to School Career Profile: Etsy Retailer
Thanks to the buzzing hive of homemade wonderfulness that is Etsy, the crafty masses are no longer huddled in darkness, isolated from the world with the solitary clicks of their knitting needles. Etsy has liberated craft folk and artists from the seasonal event table, providing them with a consistent and global avenue of commerce for […]
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Back to School Career Profile: Kombucha Maker
Despite its ill-informed detractors, kombucha has a world of positive perks—plus the fermented drink makes for a tasty (and seldom used) mixer. Matt Thomas of Townshend’s Tea Company stumbled into the fermented world of kombucha a few years back with his locally produced Brew Dr. Kombucha brand, which is easily the best kombucha to ever […]
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Danava – “Shoot Straight With A Crooked Gun”
Oh boy, have I got good news for all you metal fans, stoners, and stoner metal fans out there. It’s been three years since we’ve heard a new recording from Danava. Three long, boring years. But now that the majestic rock act has resurfaced to announce the arrival of Hemisphere of Shadows (I got high […]
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Arvydas Sabonis Suffers Heart Attack
No! The greatest non-ginger Blazers big man ever, Arvydas Sabonis, has reportedly suffered a heart attack: Lithuanian news site Delfi.lt reports that former Portland Trail Blazers center Arvydas Sabonis suffered a heart attack while playing basketball Tuesday night. Spanish website CadenaSer.com reported soon after that Sabonis did suffer a heart attack but quoted Arturo Ortega, […]
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The Shins Cover Pink Floyd on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
As part of their themed week of music, all this week Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is opening up their stage to contemporary acts covering Pink Floyd. Unfortunately these guys couldn’t make it, but the new-look The Shins were available. Shockingly, James Mercer and company passed on playing anything from The Division Bell and instead […]
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Doug Fir Turns Seven
Has it been seven years already? It seemed like it was just yesterday that the Doug Fir Lounge swung up their wooden doors and permanently changed the face of East Burnside for good. Back then, pre-Doug Fir, that stretch only had a pair of businesses (Oregon Artificial Limb Company and Union Jacks), Quality Bar was […]
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NBA Postpones Training Camp and Cancels Preseason Games
Oh great. Three more unemployed Portland hipsters with tattoos. In news we all saw coming from a mile away, the NBA has postponed all training camps and outright canceled every preseason games from October 9-15. NEW YORK, September 23, 2011—The NBA announced today that player training camps for the 2011-12 season have been postponed indefinitely […]
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Cinderella Really Wants You to Eat Another Chili Dog
Cinderella came here to kick ass and eat chili dogs, and looks like they are all out of chili… oh wait, no, there seems to be enough chili dogs to go around. The hair metal band that single-handedly kept Aqua Net in business during the 1980s, Cinderella weren’t too cool to turn down some commercial […]
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This Week’s Mercury Music Section
Tyler Kohlhoff Nurses Another week, another Mercury music section to ignore while you read the Beatles’ anti-segregation contract from their 1965 show at the Cow Palace in Daly City, CA. Nice one, but I can’t believe Paul McCartney would want to play inside a palace made entirely of cows. What a sellout. We always knew […]