Wondering where the best of the Mercury Flickr Pool posts have gone these past couple of weeks? Well, we’ve been getting ready to launch the official Mercury Photo Lottery! What is the Mercury Photo Lottery?It is the chance for you to have one of your photos printed in the Mercury! Each week, we’ll pick a […]
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Reading Tonight: Shock of the New
What better way to kill time before tonight’s Frightened Rabbit show at Holocene than at a reading just down the street? Shock of the New is organized by Future Tense publisher, occasional Mercury contributor, and all around nice guy Kevin Sampsell, and it features readings from poet Zachary Schomburg, Riley Michael Parker (whose chapbook Our […]
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Halloween at PCS
Guys, Portland Center Stage reeaaalllyy wants you to hang out with them on Halloween. And if you don’t mind dressing up like a cast member from Cats, this is actually an incredibly sweet deal. (Or you could be all meta about it and pretend you’re dressing up like a high school drama dork, if that […]
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Spooky Opera
I have a confession to make: I hate the expectation to dress up for Halloween. I’m an adult, and I’ll skip the costume, thank you very much. This marks me as a party pooper who hates fun, which is not true. I love Halloween in other respects: The crisp fall air, the pumpkins, the candy, […]
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Robocop on a Unicorn
While the internet itself is certainly a thing of beauty, I sincerely believe it is capable of creating “the ultimate beauty.” For example, the big thing on the internet right now is artistic renderings of Robocop on a Unicorn. Why? Who the eff knows? And who are we to even question such a thing of […]
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Onstage this Weekend
My apologies to Re-Theatre Instrument for neglecting to list their production of King Lear: The Rise and Fall of Baseball in this week’s paper. Press releases are slippery little things. Anyway, the show’s got potential–I’m looking forward to it. (And I’m not even going to reference this again. Dead horse, right?) Join the Re-Theatre Instrument […]
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Spring Awakening: That’s It?
Note: This is less a formal review than a sustained expression of grumpiness. Due to the demands of deadline day, I missed the first 15 minutes or so of last night’s Broadway Across America touring production of Spring Awakening. In all fairness, then, it’s only the last seven-eighths of the show that I can describe […]
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Color Me Pretty
This site is the jam. Pick up to ten colors and a smart little robot will find flickr pics with your color scheme. Good for idea boards and time wasting. Check it: Multicolr Search Lab. LS via kottke
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Tonight: Anthology Release and Free Theater
Tonight at Worksound the release party for the newest anthology from the Beaverton-based online quarterly Ink-Filled Page (dig the hyphen). Drinks, dessert, readings, fun. Worksound Gallery, 820 SE Alder, 7-10 pm, free And meanwhile at the Friends Meeting House, a reading of the new play The Trial of George W. Bush 2005. Many of the […]
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The Menthol of Portland Art Galleries
While out on a photo-walk yesterday, I was in the Belmont neighborhood and spotted something familiar… I thought, “Hey, I’ve seen those people in that painting before.” I shuffled through the catalog of images stored in my brain and quickly pulled up a match! That’s the girls from Stumptown that were used on the cover […]
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Theater PR
This is maybe the best press image I’ve ever received, courtesy of a local theater company: Any guesses what show it’s for? Hint: Opens this weekend…
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Weekend Arts Picks: Bucky and Cloud Eye Control
Busy weekend. Here’s a couple of highlights. SATURDAY: Allegra Fuller Snyder lecture, Ellyn Bye Studio at the Armory, 128 NW 11th, 2 pm, FREE Portland Center Stage has an intriguing lecture series planned hinging on the ideas of R. Buckminster Fuller, AKA “Bucky,” in conjunction with their new show R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and […]