Destination Fun

New Year’s Party Roundup! There’s more pressure on you to have fun this New Year’s Eve than there was on my girlfriend to give some up on prom night ’93. So how are you going to deal with this imperative to party like it’s 1979? That’s easy: We’ve put together a whole guide of festivities […]

Mercury Online Charity Auction There’s still time to grab truly original gifts with the Mercury Online Charity Auction! Go to www.portlandmercury.com, and bid for the following once-in-a-lifetime gifts! AUCTION ENDS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16 AT 5 PM! All proceeds go to help JOIN in their fight against homelessness! 1. FARGO ROCK CITY ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT—Plus autographed copies […]

Portland LumberJax Scrimmage Their inaugural season doesn’t kick off until early January, but the Portland LumberJax are holding a free (free!) scrimmage tonight (Thursday) at the Rose Garden, which should dispel any misconceptions one might have about indoor freakin’ lacrosse. The sport is like a cross between hockey and basketball, except that body checking and […]

Grindhouse Film Fest Last year’s Grindhouse Film Fest was one of the badassest things to ever hit Portland. What’s that? “Badassest” isn’t a word, you say? Well, guess what, four-eyes? It is now—because it’s the only word that sums up just how cool the Grindhouse Film Fest is. Now in its second year, Grindhouse boasts […]

Get Your Zombie On! Some years it’s all angels and fairies. Others, devils and demons. Most recently, costumes have taken on a political attitude with ultra-scary President Bush masks and trick-or-treaters dressed as tortured Iraqi prisoners (or perhaps that was just a bed-sheeted ghost on a dog leash?). But this year is destined for a […]

Authors Out the Wazoo! Hey bookworms—welcome to another week in paradise! Every nerd’s imaginary girlfriend, Sarah Vowell, brings her quirky humor and funny voice to town to benefit Write Around Portland. First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park, Wed Oct 26, 7:30 pm The man who ate canned dog food for Letterman, Cabin Boy Chris Elliot […]

The Friskies Cat Team! Some of you may have been lured to the cat show at the Expo Center a few months ago, enticed by the promise of a cat obstacle course. And what did you find there? Oh, there were cats at the cat show. And yes, there was an obstacle course at the […]

Stumptown Comics Fest This year’s Stumptown Comics Fest—the second annual celebration of Portland’s vibrant indie comic book scene—looks to be, in almost every way, an improvement over the first. Kicking off the day before the fest (Friday, Sept 30) are two signings featuring Stumptown Fest guests: one at Cosmic Monkey Comics (10227 NE Clackamas, from […]

Mutant Bike Championship A hallowed tradition since 2002, C.H.U.N.K. 666’s Chunkathalon is a guaranteed, hell of a good time. The rogue bike club welds together mutant bikes, then terrorizes and delights the community by riding them, frequently into each other. Whereas previous Chunkathalons pitted riders against each other in one-on-one reckless competitions, this year is […]

Get Entertained with… Pizzazz! Think entertainment is dead? Think again, jerkhole! Portland is literally dripping with talent from every orifice, and we’re proving it with the Mercury’s annual Pizzazz! Talent Show. Every year Portland’s best, brightest, and weirdest go head to head in front of a panel of celebrity judges to decide who is the […]

The Second Annual Mini-Golf Art Invitational One of the best things about Holocene is that its arrival in our midst brought with it a new tradition: that of combining mini-golf with local art. The Second Annual Mini-Golf Art Invitational collects a team of local creatives to design holes for the course that are “both functional […]