Let’s face it. Time is money. For that matter, money is money, and sometimes you need to save on both. Like when you want a deliciously simple taco, but you don’t want to pay an arm and a leg for it, and you don’t want to wait an arm and a leg for it (ever […]
Lance Chess
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Super Crafty
Super Crafty are a collective of four women who discovered that there truly is strength
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Self-Indulgence
Mercury Employees’ Dining Hotspots
LANCE CHESS – Director of Circulation Hi, I’m Lance and I’m an Aquarius. I like long walks on the beach, a well-made Maker’s Mark Old Fashioned and pointing out that I’m the only person at the Mercury who actually physically works for a living. I also like Mississippi Pizza and its recent addition the Atlantis […]
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Japan via Beaverton
The Wonder of Uwajimaya
Uwajimaya Beaverton 10500 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy Beaverton, OR 97005 643-4512 www.uwajimaya.com Founded in 1928 by Japan-born Fujimatsu Moriguchi, Beaverton’s Asian super-supermarket Uwajimaya started humbly as a food cart in the Tacoma area, out of which Moriguchi sold fishcakes to Japanese loggers and fishermen. After the shameful articles of internment forced him and his family into […]
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Fear the Sky!
Or, You Know, Don’t.
Stealth dir. Cohen Opens Fri July 29 Various Theaters Quick: What do you get when you combine Knight Rider, Top Gun, and The Fast and the Furious? Give up? Okay, me too. But that unseemly conglomerate of recycled flotsam is exactly the formula I imagine Sony Pictures used to conjure up Stealth. The premise seems […]
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Big Bosoms and Square Jaws
Big Bosoms and Square Jaws by Jimmy McDonough, reading at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, Fri June 22, 7:30 pm The hotly debated film career of Russ Meyer spanned the course of 30 years (1950s-’80s) and produced more than 50 movies whose subject was essentially the women starring in them. To some, Meyer […]
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Geek Out
Google Conquers the World
From its humble beginning as a meta-search engine, I’ve been a firm believer in the power of Google. Google’s search engine-driven contributions to cyberspace have changed my life for the better. (How the hell can I get in touch with Evel Knievel? Google him, of course.) As Google began to launch things like searchable email […]
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ZZ Top Is Zee Tops!
Why ZZ Top is the World’s Greatest Band!
Most of us aren’t old enough to remember the real ZZ Top, the trio that claimed the throne of bar blues boogie in 1970. For people my age and younger, ZZ Top are a kind of hick-assed version of the Cars–an image due, in large part, to their phenomenal success in the mid-’80s, back when […]
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With or Without You
With or Without You by Lauren Sanders, appearing at Reading Frenzy, 921 SW Oak, Friday April 29, 7 pm I’m always a little suspicious of writers who can carry the nutjob narrative seamlessly throughout an entire book. In With or Without You, Lauren Sanders presents Lillian Speck, a simple girl whose childhood is a suburban […]
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Our Enemies in Blue
Our Enemies in Blue by Kristian Williams (Soft Skull) For his debut effort, Our Enemies in Blue, an indictment of the police system in America, Kristian Williams did his homework. His analysis of our modern capitalist state’s enforcement contingency is quite thorough, ranging back to colonial times and including historical influences such as those of […]