Portland’s annual theater awards ceremony is tonight at the Crystal Ballroom, an event of some interest to the theater community and virtually no interest to the public at large. For the past few years I’ve enjoyed drunkenly liveblogging the thing, but I won’t be able to make it this year—I would like to follow along […]
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RACC & Literary Arts Grant Deadlines
Reminders for artsy/writery types: The deadline for filing your “intent to apply” paperwork for a Regional Arts and Council Commission Grant (for your play or art project or whatever) is August 4. So start thinking about it. The deadline to apply for an Oregon Literary Fellowship is in two weeks: June 25. So start frantically […]
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You Can Buy Posters of the Awesome Bike Issue Art
Personally, I recommend tearing the cover off our current issue (after you’ve read it, of course) and taping it to your wall. But if you’re one of those fancy people with “taste”, you can buy high-quality poster versions of all the excellent art featured in the issue here at Script and Seal’s site. The bike […]
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Anarchist Band Art
A little inspiration while you make your final decision, courtesy of Blogtown commenters atomic and Commenty Colin: Oh, there’s more! After the jump and on kiala’s blog.
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is Timothy Karpinski! 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 group, and start PHART-ing today!!
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Publication Studio + Food Carts
Local on-demand publishers Publication Studio are trying out something new with their next back room dinner. Here’s the menu for the event Matthew Stadler & co. are cooking up: Menu: arepas (meat and vegetarian) and fried plantains by Caraquena Venezuelan; fresh summer salad and wood-fired pizza (meat and vegetarian) by Pizza Depokos; Pad Khing (meat […]
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is Alden Kelley! 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 group, and start PHART-ing today!!
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This Week’s Mecury Arts Section!
BOOKS! Extra Lives: Why Videogames Matter: I send Erik Henriksen to interview local author Tom Bissell about his book on videogames, and Erik comes back four hours later after having played Dead Space all afternoon. Bissell’s book is by all accounts amazing—I know I really enjoyed the excerpt I read in a recent issue of […]
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The Art of The World Cup
via BuzzFeed Oh Say Can You See . . . So yes, this World Cup is coming. It’s a big deal that millions and millions and, oh, a couple more millions of people are getting incredibly excited for and it arrives June 11. I’ve got a little primer in the works for teams to keep […]
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R.I.P. Louise Bourgeois, Artist
I know everyone’s feeling a bit of celebrity death fatigue what with Dennis Hopper and Gary Coleman and Ted Koppel’s son and Frank Frazetta and Dio and Guillermo del Toro’s version of The Hobbit, but I don’t want Louise Bourgeois to be lost in the shuffle. One of the most important artists of the last […]
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Banksy by City, Plus a Bit of Art News
I saw Exit Through the Gift Shop over the weekend, a new documentary from the British street artist Banksy that purports to be a sort of biopic about the filmmaker-turned-terrible-artist Thierry Guetta, AKA Mr. Brainwash. The movie is entertaining as hell, though New York Magazine put things into perspective with the headline “Is Banksy’s Mr. […]
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Photos from Alberta’s Last Thursday
Here are some cool photos from Mercury photo intern Johanna Dooley taken last night at Alberta Street’s Last Thursday. Check ’em out! A couple more after the jump.