Touchstone YOU’RE NEVER WEIRD ON THE INTERNET, especially if you’re not really very weird at all? Delightfully geeky actress Felicia Day’s new memoir is called You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), so we thought it would be weird. Turns out? Not so much. Though Day presents her childhood as being weird, I guess she […]
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The Runners-Up of the Mercury‘s Pet Photo Contest
By now I hope you’ve familiarized yourselves with our Pet Issue‘s photo contest winner Gary and his world. However we also had some very fine runners-up in this endeavor, and they shall not be overlooked. You can see all the pets in our slideshow, but here are a few of the alternates for our three […]
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Know Your City Director Marc Moscato Steps Down
Know Your City STEPPING DOWN: Marc Moscato, director of local history nonprofit Know Your City. (Pictured with Jade Journal.) Know Your City Executive Director Marc Moscato announced this week that he’ll be stepping down from his position at the local history nonprofit. Moscato launched Know Your City (KYC) in 2009 with co-founders Lucy Rockwell and […]
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Behold!: Gary, the Winner of the Most Glamorous Pet Photo Contest!
The past few weeks have been a little more magical around the old inbox than usual, thanks to our first-ever glamorous pet photo contest! We asked you to send in snaps of your beautiful, glamorous pets, and boy did you ever. It was really, really delightful yet really, really difficult to sort through the bounty […]
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Arts Exit: Portland Filmmakers Chart the Impact of Gutted Arts Funding
ARTS EXIT Try complaining about the arts tax after seeing this, you monster. “We did whatever it took. We’re a two-woman team,” says first-time filmmaker Emily Sterling when we meet up at Perception Media’s office in a converted bungalow on NE Broadway. Sterling and Char Hutson’s debut documentary, Arts Exit: Saving the Creative Kid, which […]
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The Week in Art: Hitchhiking with John Waters, Tanning with a Witch, and the Sweet, Sweet Emotions of the Stumptown Improv Fest
Joan Marcus WICKED‘S ALYSSA FOX: “She’s powerful, she’s complicated, and her skin is that lustrous combo of army green, olive, and lime.” • The musical Wicked is 12 years old. It’s wicked old. But Trent Moorman’s interview with head witch Alyssa Fox (she plays Elphaba in the production that just landed in Portland) makes the […]
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The Top Ten I Love Television™ Illustrations
As mentioned in this week’s column, I am retiring I Love Television™ (America’s favorite column™!) after an illustrious and mostly profane 20 years. HOWEVER! I would be remiss not to give a huge shout-out to my partner-in-crime, artist Jeremy Eaton, who illustrated my work for most of its long, long run. HE’S THE MOTHERFUCKING BEST, […]
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In Comedy News: The Glory That is the Stumptown Improv Fest, Duncan Trussell, & Change-Ups at Picture This!
Andy Batt THE LIBERATORS: Merely one very good argument for attending the Stumptown Improv Festival this weekend. • Comedian Andie Main is stepping down from her perch as host of drunk Pictionary art ‘n’ comedy showcase Picture This! “It’s a very amicable split,” says Main, who will be taking on new hosting duties for Curious […]
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At Collins Gallery Show, Homeless Youth Compile A Survival Guide to the Streets of Portland
P:ear On any given night, roughly 4,000 women and men are homeless across Portland, and as many as 400 of them are homeless youth living on the streets. Here to help is Survival Guide to the Streets of Portland, a powerful show at the Central Library’s Collins Gallery. It’s a product of the youth of […]
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Is Putting Forest Detritus on Power Lines the New Putting Dildos on Power Lines?
The Log Lady would approve! Yesterday, running home from a film screening, I ran into this at the corner of Broadway and 25th: MB Looks like someone forgot their tree remains. A closer look: MB Yep, sure enough, it’s actual forest detritus, on a power line! How the fuck did THAT happen? Let’s face it: […]
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The Week in Art: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Powerful Letter to His Son, and Translating Gus Van Sant to the Stage
Acapella Books TA-NEHISI COATES You should read his new book. • More than 50 years ago, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his nephew about surviving as a black man in America. Today, that conversation—about identity, systemic violence against people of color, and America’s construction of race—is continued by Ta-Nehisi Coates in Between the World […]
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Content at the Ace Hotel: Now Accepting Proposals
The annual Content showcase hosted at Portland’s Ace Hotel has been scheduled for Saturday, Nov 14! For the uninitiated, Content was originated by a team led by a pre-Project Runway Gretchen Jones, who envisioned an installation-based showcase for Portland’s design professionals to translate their inspirations and identity in a format that was expressly focused on […]