There’s not much to say about this game. This was an all-timer. This one goes in the pantheon of Portland games. Wow. Just…wow. It starts and ends with Damian Lillard. This was his greatest game to date, and one of the best singular games from a Portland player of all time. Dame had a career-high […]
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The Slow, Creeping Horror of The Witch
“IN THE EARLY modern period,” begins Robert Eggers, writer and director of the deeply unsettling The Witch, “the real world and the fairy tale world were the same thing.” It’s an appropriately Once Upon a Time preamble for discussing the film, in which a devouter-than-thou family of New England Puritans venture past the outskirts of […]
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It’s Happening This Weekend!
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 MUSIC—It’s been many moons since Portland’s double-headed Quasi beast roared ’round these parts, but tonight the indomitable duo of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss returns, not once but TWICE, with an all-ages early show and a later show for all the fogeys. NED LANNAMANNMississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi, 6 pm, $12-14, all […]
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Free Kesha: Judge Rules She Must Continue Working with Abusive Producer
Wikipedia FREE KESHA As if Kesha hasn’t been through enough already: This morning a Manhattan judge ruled that despite Kesha’s allegations against her producer Dr. Luke, who she says drugged and raped her when she was just 18 and has continued abusive behaviors in their woking relationship, under her contract with Sony she must keep […]
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What to Watch For at the Simple Invitational
Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers With just two weeks to go until the start of the 2016 season, the Portland Timbers will take the field at Providence Park for the first time as defending MLS champions. On Sunday night at 5 PM, the Timbers take on NASL side Minnesota United in the first game of the club’s […]
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Now Hiring: Mercury News Reporter
Good news: the Portland Mercury is hiring! We’re looking to add a full-time news reporter to our award-winning staff—known locally for smart, deep, and accessible journalism. And we want someone with hustle and an unflinching drive to make a meaningful difference in our community. IS THAT YOU, OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW? Keep reading, and spread […]
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Touched with Fire: An Offensive Cartoon of Mental Illness, With Bonus Awful Poetry!
SPOILER ALERT: The poetry in this movie is not very good. You know that one friend who tells you depression shouldn’t be treated with medication, because you could just cut out gluten or eat more kale? Touched with Fire is 110 minutes of that friend, and it’s just as insufferable as you’d expect. Ostensibly a […]
Posted inPolitics
Ted Cruz Associates Gluten-Free With Culture of “Political Correctness”
In line with the very surreal nature of the upcoming presidential election, Republican candidate/village idiot Ted Cruz told voters in South Carolina on Tuesday that he wouldn’t provide gluten-free ready-to-eat meals to the military: “The last thing any commander should need to worry about is the grades he is getting from some plush-bottomed Pentagon bureaucrat—or […]
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The Law Has Blatant Disregard for Our Rights
Dear Officers Douchebag and Numnuts,Stop harrassing my husband for drinking a beer. You stalk him and threaten to take his dog while tweekers, crackheads, and junkies run rampant. When someone threatens to kill my dog, you say “oh he’s mentally disabled so we can’t mess with him” when in reality he is on meth. You […]
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What the Firkin? Get Real Ale at This Weekend’s Firkin Fest
Up in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains is a tiny brewery called Brewers Union Local 180 in a tiny town called Oakridge. Here, owner/brewer Ted Sobel stands behind his bar with nary a tap line. In lieu of carbonated kegs there are six hand pumps. That’s right. His brewery has no draft beer. No bottled or canned […]
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Bonus Blowjob Tips, Anal Sex Toy Recs
I just listened to Episode 486 of the Savage Lovecast. This is specifically regarding the woman who wondered if she could learn to like giving blowjobs. When I first met my husband, I identified as lesbian—I was young, I’ve since learned that I’m bi, and that you don’t have to just choose one—but when I […]
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Raunchy Danes, Spooky Sea Creatures, and FOKN Revenge: Week Two of the Portland International Film Festival
EVOLUTION A gorgeously shot horror/sci-fi. We’re midway through the 39th annual Portland International Film Festival, which seems to be happily coinciding with some real butt-ass weather. All the more reason to stay inside, vicariously traveling the world. Poor February—PIFF might be its only charm. And maybe it’s my imagination, but there seem to be more […]