Marc Byrne, previous owner of XV, told me today, “It was just time to move on and relax for a little bit.” The popular downtown bar was sold yesterday to Mr. Raj Patel. Patel has no plans to change anything at the bar in the near future, “I’m going to take some time and get […]
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Onstage this Weekend
There are some really good things happening onstage this weekend. 9 Parts of Desire sounds amazing—the one-woman show about nine very different Iraqi women is co-produced by CoHo and Cygnet Productions; my notoriously irascible freelance theater writer, Temple Lentz, called it “one of the most compelling pieces of solo theater you will ever see on […]
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Pedo Blogger: “I’ll be at the Parade Tomorrow. I can’t imagine the cops would do anything…”
Admitted pedophile blogger Jack McClellan plans to be at the Rose Festival parade tomorrow. He’s been experiencing a degree of what he describes as harassment by the Portland Police over the last few weeks, the latest example of which is documented on his blog: In closing, I think the cops’ behavior toward me today crossed […]
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Naming the New Blog Column
Thanks for all the help coming with names for the reading/drinking blog column. Here are my favorites—pick one! PICK A TITLE FOR THE MERCURY‘S NEWEST BLOG COLUMN
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Homeless Face Same Shit in Seattle
A fascinating entry on the Stranger’s excellent blog this afternoon by reporter Erica C.Barnett, about homeless sweeps being done in Seattle. Barnett writes: The controversy over the sweeps, which the Times story breezes past in five short sentences consisting of an obligatory quote from a single homeless advocate, isn’t just about the fact that there […]
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Hitler was a Burner
Oddly, Burning Man (tickets on sale now!) has already come up twice today, and I haven’t even left the house! The first time was this I, Anonymous decrying the hypocrisy of Burning Man’s carbon footprint and the so-called liberal hippie mentality of the typical burner. And now, it gets worse:
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M. Night Shyamalan on NPR’s Science Friday.
I might be the only person on the planet who hasn’t totally written off M. Night Shyamalan at this point. And I really dig NPR’s Science Friday, wherein host Ira Flatow takes over the radio waves to talk about how totally bitchin’ science is. (Which it is. Science is totally bitchin’.) Anyway, Shyamalan’s on right […]
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Good Mid-Morning News!!
Because sometimes, your intern goes to Miami. 1.SPIKE LEE SHOULD SHUT HIS FACE!!! Clint Eastwood takes a swipe at Spike Lee for accusing his film, Flags of The Fathers, of not including black troops. “Has he ever studied history?” Eastwood asks. Bitch-slapping contest! 2.CLIMBING THE NEW YORK TIMES BUILDING!!! French Climber Alain Robert climbed the […]
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Tonight: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Goddamn, I love Wrath of Khan. We got really late notice on this (which is why it isn’t in the paper this week), but the best Star Trek movie ever is playing tonight, for free, as part of Geek Movie Night at Backspace/Old Town Computers (115 NW 5th). According to Tyler at Old Town Computers, […]
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Camp Out On The Rose Parade Route With The Mercury
Get your duct tape out of our face. We’re camping out tonight, aiming for the 5-700 block on SW Broadway, depending on who’s there first. SCHEDULE: Missing my “cigar appreciation hour,” between 1:30 and 2:30, but otherwise, comprehensive…
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PDX Ripped: Mars Volta Interview at Sasquatch
Dave Allen has more Sasquatch footage for you this week! Says Dave, “I ran into Cedric and Omar from The Mars Volta back stage. We caught up about the last time we spent time together in Los Angeles in 2005 doing a remix together of Gang of Four’s ‘To Hell With Poverty’ with Cedric laying […]
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New Blog Column
Paul Constant up at The Stranger has a blog column called “Lunch Date,” where, a few times a week, he takes a new book with him to lunch, spends half an hour or so with it, then reports on both the book and the food (here’s one). With his gracious permission, I’m going to rip […]