There’s been a lot of talk around here about summer footwear lately, so here’s one more for you: The Flipflask. Flipflask First of all ghhaaauuuggghh… part of me died just posting that image. These things are ferociously awful. The ones with the pot leaves giving the peace sign literally want to make me hide under […]
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Important Terminator News & Events for the Week of June 9-16, 2013
Via, sort of BEFORE YOU GO ANY FURTHER, HERE IS THE SOUNDTRACK TO THIS BLOG POST. PLEASE PRESS “PLAY,” THEN CONTINUE. The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day are things of beauty. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is not very good. Terminator: Salvation is even worse. But wait! Come back! Terminator: The Sarah Connor […]
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Find Your Pants, It’s Portland Beer Week
Here is a reason to brave the surveillance state (my current excuse for wearing pajamas all day) and leave your home: As mentioned earlier, Portland Beer Week starts today! There are roughly a million events, so check out the calendar and make up your own mind about where to go. Or if you’re hyperventilating from […]
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Portland Beer Week is BACK
For the third consecutive year, Portland Beer Week promises to provide another welcome excuse to tipsily prove our superiority in consuming massive amounts of glutenful pints and apparently enjoy the longest week in the history of ever (11 whole days, which makes said “week” technically closer to being a fortnight, guys). Kicking off tonight (June […]
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The Who’s Yo Daddy PDX Urban Wine Tour
Like vegetables, eggs, and tea towels, I predict (okay hope) that the next big “local” obsession in these parts is going to be wine. And I don’t mean Oregon wine from out in the country, I mean the wine that is being made in increasing numbers by small urban wineries dotting the inner east side […]
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Max Teaches You How to Do… Well, Everything I Guess
The trouble with learning how to do stuff is that it takes too damn long! Luckily there’s Max who used his Vine account to make the most encompassing compilation on how-to-do stuff in the history of humankind—and each how-to is only six seconds or less! Oh, and did I mention some are disgustingly hilarious and […]
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Play Bingo, Drink Beer, Help Out NW Documentary
Quick heads up, film nerds! Tonight from 6 to 10 at Migration Brewing Co. (2828 NE Glisan), NW Documentary is having a bingo night, with all proceeds going towards the organization’s library. Bingo cards are $3 each, there’ll be prizes, and you’ll be helping out a local, film-focused nonprofit. Not a bad way to spend […]
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BREAKING: Pony Poops in Liquor Store; Owner Upset
Everything about this news story about a pony pooping inside a liquor store is perfect. Sooooo… since humanity has obviously reached the apex of perfection, I’m thinking it’s time we should all just hang it up. See you on the other side, suckers! (BLAM!! plop.) Pony poops in liquor store, owner upset
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Tonight’s OMSI After Dark to Showcase Booze
“Mixology” is the theme of tonight’s after hours event at OMSI (for a 21+ crowd only, obviously). Featuring a spirits tasting from members of Oregon’s own distilling community, live Prohibition-era music, and other vendors peddling wares to an increasingly inebriated crowd, this promises to be one of the more lively editions that the OMSI After […]
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Look at These Huge Cans!
Haha, grow up, they are actual metal cans. But seriously, from the New Age Old Questions file: “Why are these cans so tall?” Have you seen these tallboy giant cans from Oskar Blues? Dale’s Pale Ale and Mama’s Little Yella Pils in 19oz cans that are too tall for your post-ironic slap-on can koozie? WHY […]
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Old Town’s “Entertainment District” Comes Before City Council Today!
Mayor Charlie Hales’ plan to extend—over substantial neighborhood concern—Old Town’s five-month-old “entertainment district” will come before council this afternoon, in what could prove a lengthy, testy hearing. City commissioners will take their first crack at an ordinance [PDF] prepared at the direction of Hales earlier this month, authorizing cops and the city’s Bureau of Transportation […]
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The Old Gold Lets Double Mountain Brewery Have Its Way with Their Tap Handles
Conflict-of-Interest Pony requires us to point out the connection between North Portland watering hole the Old Gold and the Portland Mercury—the bar was built on the burial ground of all our former music editors, or so the legend goes—but Beer-Drinkin’ Burro also insists that we tell you about the awesome thing they’ve got planned for […]