The last picture of my cat you’ll ever see. YES. THAT IS, INDEED, A BOW TIE. It’s my last day as the Mercury‘s Arts Editor! I started interning here 10 years ago and now I’m leaving! I’m trying not to be too sentimental about it! It’s been a great job and now I’m starting a […]
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Lookbook of the Day: Lyon Falls
You can’t hardly turn around in this city anymore without bumping into some sort of flea/open air/maker market. So who are all these vendor people, anyway? Well, here’s one, our submission for lookbook of the day: Lyon Falls, AKA “treasure hunting power couple” Jessica Comfort and Jevon LaBar. Find them at the Grand Marketplace Flea […]
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The Textile Hive Base
A while back I wrote about Blue Rider Design, the astonishing textile library stashed quietly in downtown Portland. Caleb Sayan, the caretaker of the collection (most of which was first established by his mother Andrea Aranow in New York during the late ’80s) has been busy digitizing each piece—there are over 40,000—and once complete it […]
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Interviewing the Woman Who Wrote the 1994 TMNT Christmas Special: A Mercury Public Service
It fell to me to review the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. A lot of people hated it. I was pretty sure I was going to hate it. I didn’t hate it. Why not? Because, while not an objectively good movie by any stretch of the imagination,TMNT shouldn’t be judged against all other films. It […]
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Monkey Owns Copyright on Selfie, Wikimedia Foundation Says
And the selfie is amaaaazing. Wikimedia Stands Up for Monkey Photographer Rights, Refuses to Take Down Monkey Selfie – http://t.co/kmue8A9lH5 pic.twitter.com/6XTpm7E9wa— kimberly (@kimberlyintn) August 6, 2014 “A monkey pressed the button, but I did all the setting up,” grouses British nature photographer David Slater to The Telegraph. He’s suing.
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Lookbook of the Day: Xtabay’s “American Beauty”
This is it: the apex of summer. Today’s lookbook highlight comes from one of Portland’s vintage grande dames, Xtabay, whose “American Beauty” shoot is flooded with crimson roses, ladylike frocks, and very responsibly SPF’d pale skin. Click over to MOD for more of it. Cory Burnsed and Jade Sheldon-Burnsed
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Tonight: Adrienne Antonson at MoCC
If you like alpacas, clothing, art, bugs, felting, and… uh, environmental responsibility, You should take advantage of the current residency Adrienne Antonson is currently absorbing herself with over at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. I spoke to her for my column this week, and learned a few things I really, really like about her: 1) […]
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Help Wanted: We’re Looking for an Arts Editor!
Friends: It is with a heart full of grief that I must announce that our beloved Arts Editor Alison Hallett is leaving the Portland Mercury after 10 years of meritorious service. On the upside, she’s not pissed at us, and will be taking a very interesting job with the marketing firm Sheepscot Creative, which has […]
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Lookbook of the Day: Machus Private Label
Today’s eye candy comes from Machus, which has cornered Portland’s market for a certain brand of modern casual menswear that—and I mean this in the best way—involves a lot of very fancy sweatpants and almost nothing in the way of color. The store recently added its own in-house line of basics to complement this aesthetic, […]
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Adrienne Antonson
Portland’s summer of fashion rages on in part thanks to the Museum of Contemporary Craft‘s Fashioning Cascadia (up through Oct 11), and while Portland’s own Cassie Ridgway’s residency at the exhibit’s “Safehouse” runs through this Saturday, I’m also looking ahead to the next visitor, Adrienne Antonson. Antonson went from Charleston to Washington’s Vashon Island (where […]
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Milk Milk Lemonade
Someone desperately needs to open a candy store around the corner from Olo Fragrance‘s new joint (at 1407 SE Belmont) called Chocolate’s Made. C’mon Portland, you do this kind of shit all the time. Do this one for me. Olo’s Heather Sielaff says she chose the dirty kids’ limerick for the storefront/studio space because it’s […]
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Mag-Big Lecture at MoCC Tonight (and the Explorers Club Launches Tomorrow)
The Museum of Contemporary Craft is doing a bang-up job of keeping attention trained on its ongoing Fashioning Cascadia exhibit, maintaining activity with artist residencies and lectures throughout its run (it’s set to close Oct 11). Mag-Big’s Cassie Ridgway took up the residency mantle this week (a dispatch from which you can read on MOD, […]