MOVIES & EVENTS The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle A badly-drawn cartoon turned into a badly-acted movie by Robert DeNiro. Alice et Martin Juliette Binoche and Mathieu Almaric play Alice and Martin, a pair of complicated people in a complicated relationship. Exploring power dynamic through sensuality, age, and class, this 1998 Andre Techine film is […]
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Letters to the Editor
THE MERCURY: NOW AVAILABLE IN A PRISON NEAR YOU! TO THE EDITOR: Thank you for your kind benevolence. Monday through Friday mail calls are like a Las Vegas Christmas and now, once a week, I hit the jackpot! I’m glad Portland finally got the Mercury. I think back on how the Stranger added a festive […]
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I, Anonymous
Recently, I was comfortably seated, waiting to leave on a flight to Paris, when my fellow passengers and I were informed of a potential security breach. Apparently, a bullet was found on a walkway and authorities were very concerned. They asked if anyone was carrying bullets, and after checking us seemingly thousands of times, all […]
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This Week on TV
Thu., August 31 8:00 FOX ALI: AN AMERICAN HERO–Movie (2000) A TV movie tracing the float-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-a-bee career of Muhammad Ali! 9:00 AP MONKEY BUSINESS Monkeys who have their own radio and movie careers. Next they’ll be stealing our fast-food jobs! Fri., September 1 8:00 FOX SEVEN–Movie (1995) Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt try to catch […]
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CD Review
BARBARELLA 69 (A.D. Select Records) * This album makes me want to cry, not because I’m overcome with emotion, but because it makes me feel like I am stuck in a mirrored, fun-house version of Las Vegas, where I’ve stayed out all night snorting cheap, dirty meth, and my hair is starting to rebel against […]
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Live Music Listings
THURSDAY 8/24 ALADDIN THEATER-Michelle Shocked ASH STREET SALOON-Moodswings, Rong Button, Mezzo BRASILIA-Alfredo Muro’s Latin Trio BUFFALO GAP-Craig Carothers Songwriters CAFE LENA-Margaret Slovak CANDLELIGHT CAFE AND BAR-Norman Sylvester * CRYSTAL BALLROOM-Built To Spill, The Minders, No. 2 DANTE’S-Soul Kitchen MCMENAMINS EDGEFIELD-Say Uncle EJ’S-Pornstore Janitor, Das Gravy Boat, Bastinado FERNANDO’S HIDEAWAY-Toshi Onizuka GORGE AMPHITHEATRE-Ozzfest starring Ozzy, Pantera, […]
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DJ Listings
THURSDAY 8/24 1201 CAFE & LOUNGE-Imix/StarBass BALZER’S-R&B, Reggae BAR 71-DJ Cameron BERBATI’S PAN-Escape From Death Row DJs and artists BEULAHLAND-DJ #1 & DJ #2 COBALT LOUNGE-Xotica Go Go FERNANDO’S HIDEAWAY-Salsa Dancing LOTUS CARDROOM & CAFE-DJ Groove * PINE STREET THEATER–Sound Envision (Goth, Industrial, Dark Wave, Dance w/ DJ Carrion, DJ Gino, DJ Wrexx, guests) QUEST-DJ […]
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Club Directory
1201 Club 1201 SW 12th, 225-1201 Aladdin Theater 3017 SE Milwaukie, 233-1994 Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave, 230-1166 Arnada Cafe 1717 Broadway, 360-750-9596 Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St, 226-0430 Atwater’s 111 SW 5th Ave, 275-3600 Bar 71 71 SW 2nd Ave, 241-0938 Berbati’s Pan 231 SW Ankeny, 248-4579 Beulahland 118 […]
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Theater Listings
Opening This Week Anthology: A Decade of Lucid Dreaming Pavement Productions presents a collection of scenes from the plays of Portland author Steve Patterson. Since the 1990 debut of his play Controlled Burn, Patterson has worked in both Los Angeles and Chicago. His most poignant scenes will be presented, famous for altered-consciousness realites and social […]
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Readings Listings
THURSDAY 8/24 Phillip Margolin Popular detective thriller author Phillip Margolin, a Lake Oswegan, will read and sign his newest book, Wild Justice. A former attorney, Margolin’s series of predictable pulp fiction has been successful enough to allow him to leave the practice of law and write full time. It is a regrettable state of affairs […]
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Visual Arts Listings
Blackfish Gallery 420 NW Ninth Ave, 224-2634 From the Mesabi to the Cascades, recent cast iron sculpture from Judith and Daniel Caldwell, Coral Lambert, and Tamsie Ringler. Through Sept 1 Blue Sky Photography Gallery 1231 NW Hoyt St, 225-0210 Recycled Realities, photographs by John Willis and Imagining Antarctica, photographs by Sandy Sorlien. Through Sept 2 […]
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Film Shorts
OPENING ALICE ET MARTIN ALL BLACK SCOPITONE AND SOUNDIE SHOW ART OF WAR BLAXPLOITATION TRAILER SHOW BLUE COLLAR BOY AND HIS DOG BRING IT ON COOL WORLD CREW DANCE BLACK AMERICA FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF HARLEM IN THE TWENTIES NO SMOKING SAME OLD SONG SMOKING TAO OF STEVE MOVIES & EVENTS The Adventures of Rocky […]