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This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is Lets Go Swimming! 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!!

You can head over here to read the lineup or hit the jump. A couple quick thoughts: Sunset Boulevard: I’m much more excited for this than I usually am for the season opening musicals. Who’s gonna play Norma Desmond? Can any local actors pull it off? Does Vana O’Brian sing? One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s […]

I made you an arts section!VISUAL ART: Matt Stangel reviews the Portland Art Museum’s Disquieted, a group show that really, really wants to freak you out. BOOKS: Dave Bow reviews Max Watman’s Chasing the White Dog, a book about moonshine that sounds super interesting, but reads like this: “On top of my newly purchased antique […]

JUST SEEDS In this week’s art section I strongly encourage readers to check out Signs of Change, the massive collection of counter-culture art on display at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. The display of over 600 posters, t-shirts, video and audio from social movements over the past 60 years is delicious history nerd candy, […]

This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is erikzachariahh! 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!!

There are two really great shows playing in town right now, featuring two outstanding performances by local actors: The Receptionist at Portland Center Stage, and American Buffalo at Third Rail Repertory, starring Sharonlee McLean and Tim True, respectively. If you’ve been thinking about trying to see something, it’s probably not going to get any better […]

Hungry Eyeball Jason Graham’s “The Ghosts of What Should Have Been” About a year ago Greg Pitters noticed that his preferred genre of art— what could be lumped under “low-brow“— was thriving locally, though wasn’t getting much hometown press or promotion. In May of 2009, responding to the situation, he started Hungry Eyeball, a website […]

THEATER!: Jane Carlen reviews the Miracle Theatre’s Entre Villa y una Mujer Desnuda (translation: “Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman,” or so someone who speaks Spanish told us). Ms. Carlen is underwhelmed by the play’s depiction of male/female relationships. Next week: Jane reviews Defending the Caveman. I was out of town last weekend, so […]