Start heating up your hair curlers and shave your legs, because today at 3 pm Menomena is due to begin casting their next video, to be directed by Alicia Rose! Here are the deets: CALL FOR CAST AND EXTRAS! Come get a shot at being in Menomena’s new video!Directed by the one, the only, Alicia […]
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Blazer Mania at Compound Gallery
Compound Gallery “Rip City Bigs” by Ryan Berkley Attention, sports fans: If Ezra’s mid-season Blazers checkup didn’t depress the fandom out of you satiate your Blazelust, then I have an art show for you! Blazer Mania, Compound Gallery’s Blazers-inspired group show, is on view through the end of the month— bringing together local and regional […]
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is Aumie! Congrats, and look! We’ve animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart Topper of the week? Submit your art or photos to the Mercury’s Flickr pool, and start PHART-ing today!!
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is Tripper Dungan! Congrats, and look! We’ve animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart Topper of the week? Submit your art or photos to the Mercury’s Flickr pool, and start PHART-ing today!!
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First Thursday: Every Mercury Cover EVER!
Sarah Mirk A team of Mercury and Powells’ staffers are currently hard at work hanging more than 500 prints in the Pearl Room at Powell’s—copies of just about every Mercury cover since 2000, for a show that will overflow the Basil Hayward gallery and spill into the stairwell. Our art directors have done some pretty […]
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Cheap Classical Music for Low-Income Families
Times are tough, but that doesn’t mean you can’t soak up some culture. In conjunction with the city of Portland and local arts and culture programs, Go Classical PDX has introduced a new program called Music for All, which allows members of the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) to attend performances for $5. Take it […]
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Awesome Cover Art: Alain Delorme’s “Totem”
No surprise, I love the art on the Merc cover this week, one of a series of manufactured photos from French artist Alain Delorme’s series Totems. Here’s a couple other excellent images from the series, which you can see all of here: I squinted hard at my screen the first time I saw this series […]
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Labyrinth with Sock Pockets
Perhaps you’ve spent the last 20 years wondering what Neil Gaiman would look like dressed as Jareth as he talked to sock puppets. (Or maybe you didn’t.) Either way, it’s happened and all thanks to Gaiman’s fiancee musician Amanda Palmer. Below is a scene from Labyrinth that they recreated. It’s British and has Gaiman in […]
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Muppets with Human Eyes Are Scaring the Crap Out Of Me
After a very late night of Baby Ketten Karaoke and ill advised tequila shots I feel like shit on a cracker. Is that a term? Well, it is now. My point is, it is impossible to explain how awful I feel with words. Thank goodness there is this tumblr to paint you a picture of […]
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Hey Hollywood? Start Hiring Olly Moss.
One of the highlights of every month’s Empire is the “‘Ollywood” page, in which British designer Olly Moss cranks out a movie poster that is—inevitably—1,000 times cooler than the film’s actual poster. For example: Moss’ Sex and the City 2 poster via. Moss also designed this poster for Thor, which was commissioned by one of […]
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Death Row Inmates’ Final Meals: Still Relevant!
When I first heard of Julia Zeigler-Haynes’ new book Today’s Special, a collection of the recreated last meals of death row inmates, I was all “oh hell no, no you don’t, idea stealer.” That’s because the original copy of the painting featured in this video, #770 (Castillo), by Portland’s Ahren Lutz, is hanging in my […]
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is {andreajohnson}! Congrats, and look! We’ve animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart Topper? Submit your art or photos to the Mercury’s Flickr pool, and start PHART-ing today!!