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I couldn’t decide between the guy who wanted the tickets to cheer up his fiancee (awww), the girl who hasn’t had sex in a year and wanted to “inject some eroticism” into her life (I hear ya, sister), or the lady who wanted the tickets for her best friend’s birthday. How’m I supposed to pick […]

(Any excuse to post a picture of Joan. God I love her.) Tonight at 8 pm, Coho Productions is offering a preview preview of the first show in their 2008/2009 season, The Receptionist, the West Coast premiere of Adam Bock’s script about a receptionist with no idea what kind of company she really works for. […]

So goes the time in your day with the amazing website thisissand.com. Did you ever do those weird sand paintings in a bottle when you were a kid? Do you remember how relaxing it was? Recapture your childhood while simultaneously throwing every useful moment in your day out the window. Just click the little box […]

I’ve got a pair of tickets to give away to Broadway Across America’s touring production of Spring Awakening , the hottest musical about teen sex to hit Portland, well, ever. Set in Germany in the late 1800s, the Tony Award-winning, Duncan Sheik-scored musical follows a group of teenagers struggling to understand human sexuality, with little […]

PORTLAND, OR – An Oregon improv group, The Light-Fingered Five, will perform at the Campaign for Change office in Oregon City on Friday, October 10th to help register voters and support Barack Obama’s Campaign for Change. WHO: The Light-Fingered Five WHAT: Free Improv Performance WHERE: Obama’s Oregon City Campaign For Change Office611 Main StreetOregon City, […]

The Mercury Flickr Pool seems to have stalled out at 121 members!? Where you guys at? Why not actually use all those cell phone photos that you carry around in your pocket? 1) Is that a photo of a bird cyclone in your pocket? 2) Is that a photo of a bunch ‘o spooky scarecrows […]

What a way to welcome in the fall with everything that is falling apart. Money no longer grows on the trees. Those of us who still have homes huddle inside them under blankets, waiting until the last possible moment to turn on the heat as gas prices rise. What more could be next… Presidential campaigns […]

Even the perennially twee Miranda July is getting down and political this election season: On her website, she’s auctioning off old videos (of herself and Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein) for $10 a piece, with proceeds going to the Obama campaign. If you haven’t donated already, this tidy slice of riot grrrl history is a nice little […]

Artists love elections! Elections are the perfect setting to create limited-edition swag. My inbox is filling up with the latest round of posters, t-shirts, mugs, stickers, shoes… practically anything and everything a chap can unload, is sold off the barrow via an email blast and Etsy.com. Act now! Supplies are limited! PALIEN T-Shirt Created by […]

Behold! The end of the summer is nigh! This week in the Mercury Flickr Pool we looked up and beheld… 1) The baby rapture! 2) $300 Pet Strollers! 3) A guy to save us when we find ourselves in a tight spot! Show us what you lo and behold… put it in the pool!