Is Alice Cooper worth seeing in 2015? One Mercury expert says yes.
Debate Club
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Van Halen! Who Won the Debate Club?
We haven’t held Debate Club in a long time, but when Van Halen announced they’d be coming to the Clark County Amphitheater Sleep Country Amphitheater Amphitheater Northwest on Tuesday, July 7 (tickets here), we knew we had to dust off the old Mercury Debate Club podiums and start bickering. (Well, and Eddie didn’t want to […]
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Debate Club
Van Halen: Runnin’ with the Devil
Van Halen: The greatest band on earth, or the silliest?
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Debate Club
Genesis: All Full of Ball
In which we discuss Genesis for an ungodly length of time.
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Debate Club
Pearl Jam: Last Band Standing
We explore our conflicted feelings about Pearl Jam.
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Debate Club
Rush’s Pointy-Headed Canadian Prog
Mercury music writers tackle Rush’s greatest achievements.
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Debate Club
The Everyman Appeal of Huey Lewis
Mercury music editors past and present take on Huey Lewis.
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Debate Club
Fleetwood Mac’s Second Best Album
Two Mercury writers debate on Fleetwood Mac’s second best album.
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I, Anonymous: Smartphone War of the Sexes
Oh no he didn’t: Oh ladies, how you love your phone. You can just talk and text and talk and text… forever! These days, with the modernization of the space phone, it is just becoming a part of the female experience to constantly have a glowing piece of plastic in your hand or cradled in […]
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This Week’s Mercury Letters, Plus: “Detachable Penis”: Still Relevant?
In this week’s Letters section, Mercury readers fail to recognize the point of Ann Romano’s One Day At At Time, we stand accused of having published a potentially age-inappropriate Valentine (hey, one can legally love a lot of 16-year-old things, like pet tortoises and cars), and someone finally steps forward to defend the honor of […]
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“Hello, I Am Fat”gate: The Final Salvo?
After a long weekend, and 1,273 comments later, it looks like The Great “Hello, I’m Fat” War of 2011 going on over at our sister wife blog Slog is finally (and thankfully!) coming to an end. Last night Savage posted his own manifesto in response to Lindy’s manifesto—and if you have no idea what’s going […]
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Savage Responds to “Lindy-Hello-I-Am-Fat”gate
If you were watching Blogtown over the weekend, you probably read about the dustup over at our sister wife blog Slog, where Lindy West took on her boss Dan Savage regarding the language he uses to label people who are overweight… mmmmmmm… “weight enhanced?” Anyway, that battle got super heated with their commenters who have […]