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Marjorie Skinner
Marjorie Skinner is the Portland Mercury's Managing Editor, author of the weekly Sold Out column chronicling the area's independent fashion and retail industry, and a frequent contributor to the film and other arts and feature sections of the paper. She has been writing about Portland life and culture for the Mercury since 2001, produces one of Portland's largest annual spring fashion shows, and occasionally answers emails.
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Check Your Brain at the Door
Hooligans Is All About Fists
Urgent Update! The release of Green Street Hooligans has been rescheduled for Friday, November 18th! Green Street Hooligansdir. AlexanderOpens Fri Oct 21Various Theaters Green Street Hooligans is a depiction of the lifestyle of British football fans, as told through the discovering eyes of an American—a bizarre choice of vantage point. Played by Elijah Wood, Matt […]
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Wearing it Out
Style and Substance Clash Once Again
Portland’s caught a fashion bug all right, and with typical lack of focus, its influence is bleeding into arts from the visual to the performative. In oh-so-Northwest DIY, tailoring-be-damned style, October First Thursday’s aptly named “On A Limb, By A Thread” art-meets-runway-show performance exemplified the extreme, chaotic end of things—even employing reaction-baiting elements like blackface […]
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Colleen’s Back in Bistro
Beloved Breakfast Joint Serves Up Dinner
Once a tucked-away breakfast joint populated by hipsters and devotees of Ozone Records, Colleen’s is back, better, and ready for dinner. A scant distance from her former station
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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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All Gayed Up and Nowhere to Go
Hits and Misses at the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Now in its ninth year, the 2005 Lesbian and Gay Film Festival hits Cinema 21 at the
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Oliver Twist-less
Just The Way You Remember It
Oliver Twist dir. Polanski Opens Fri Sept 30 Various Theaters Nearly every inhabitant of the Western World is familiar with Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. A classic ideal of beaten-down childhood, Oliver’s an impossibly knocked around orphan who goes from factory laborer to apprentice/slave to runaway to hapless and hungry pickpocket—and then to charity case, abduction […]
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A Tale of Two Fashion Weeks
Portland Joins Paris and New York in Promoting Local Designers—Now with TWICE the Fashion!
We may be small, but we’re nimble. Unlike San Francisco, which is only on its second year of joining established fashion capitals like New York and Paris in hosting “Fashion Week(s),” Portland is already on its third consecutive year of showcasing local designers, with a sprawling schedule of shows spread through September 16. And, if […]
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Stick to What We Know
Hallström Makes a Safe Play
An Unfinished Life dir. Hallström Opens Fri Sept 9 Various Theaters They don’t make ’em like they used to, as they say. Lasse Hallström’s An Unfinished Life is, in many ways, a return to old-fashioned cinema—in which the men are brave, wise, and strong; the women are desperate, determined, and beautiful; and everyone’s pain is […]
