The reality entertainment show that we call our current Presidential Election is creeping into everything like the black oil in the X-Files. This week in the Mercury Flickr Pool we saw… 1) Palin on a train… 2) Palin as president… 3) Palin in her favorite lipstick… November already feels more like a looming tribal council […]
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Never Forget.
Wonkette has amassed a truly incredible collection of insanely tacky 9/11 art, knickknacks, and cash-ins. There are more weeping bald eagles than you ever thought you’d see, amongst other things. Check out the rest here.
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Au at TBA’s The Works
Au’s Luke Wyland Au‘s appearance at TBA’s The Works last night was an exciting celebration of music for music’s sake, in front the requisite TBA crowd of art snobs and culture scenesters. Au’s 2008 album Verbs has already garnered heaps of critical acclaim, but to see its multi-part compositions performed live–with a drum corps and […]
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50 Greatest Arts Videos On Youtube
If you, like me, are struggling to find artistic stimulation this week, what with an internationally acclaimed arts festival in town, can I recommend the pages of a British newspaper? Or, more precisely, Youtube…As you may or may not know, I find TBA to be a little too accessible, and not nearly elitist enough. So […]
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This Week’s Best of the Flickr Pool
The Mercury Flickr Pool is growing by leaps and bounds. With the upcoming TBA events combined with all the music happenings over the next week, I’m expecting to see a flood of debauchery splash down in the pool soon. This week we saw… 1) What you had for dinner… 2) Killer trees! 3) Graffiti training […]
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Graffiti Crew Stuck Up at Sticker Art
A street art show happening at Eclectica this Friday is raising some ire at the city as it toes the line for legal art. The show, called Slaptown, is organized by Portland street sticker artist New Colony, who’s been slapping up home-made stickers on newspaper boxes and street signs for three years now. He’s solicited […]
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Top Shelf Sale
Local publisher Top Shelf just announced a massive online sale running through Sept 12th. Tons of graphic novels and comics on the cheap. A quick scan of their website reveals treats like Renee French’s Micrographia, about some adorable rodents and the crapball they love, for $3; Alan Moore’s Lost Girls and Alex Robinson’s Box Office […]
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Dog Washing, Exotic Dancers, This Weekend
In a benefit for the Oregon Humane Society, the lovely ladies from Devils Point will be washing your car and/or dog this Saturday at 5305 SE Foster Road. What will they be wearing? Bikinis, of course. Aside from the dog/car wash, Devil’s Point is hosting a series of events. Come for the car wash, stay […]
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Behind the Cover
This week’s cover image was provided by resident Portland photographer John Ryan Brubaker. I ran across John’s photography as I was floating through the Mercury’s Flickr Pool. The cover image is part of John’s diligent, and inspiring Polaroid 366 project, in which he is out to take one Polaroid a day for a year. Just […]
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Onstage this Weekend: Virtually Nothing
There is virtually nothing going on theater-wise right now. Some comedy shows, a touring production of The Phatom of the Opera… see our theater listings for a complete roundup of your paltry options. (Pylon is your best bet.) Here’s a question. The theater scene is so desperately dead in the summer that I will essentially […]
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This Week’s Best of the Flickr Pool
This week the Mercury’s Flickr Pool grew to 104 members and we had two pages filled with new photos! Still no candid photos of Danny Glover!? I’m beginning to think that he and the elusive Sasquatch are roommates. This week in the pool we saw… 1) A potential candidate for an upcoming Mercury cover. 2) […]