Bad news for the tourism bureau of Estacada: The town’s #1 attraction, the Original Safari Club—a huge haven of cheap drinks, sketchy fried food, and most legendarily, tons of taxidermied large wild game in various states of repair—posted on their Facebook page last night: Facebook I’d be lying if I said I was truly surprised; […]
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New Watering Holes Now Open On NW 23rd
As of tonight, two new places to drink are officially open within a block on NW 23rd avenue. So pick a nice, quiet night when the Timbers aren’t playing (if you’re not present at the game, you do NOT want to be within a mile of the stadium afterwards) and head over to the West […]
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TOAST Returns to the World Trade Center
For the third year, close to 50 distillers and producers of artisan spirits will convene at the World Trade Center for the largest craft spirits tasting in the country this coming Friday and Saturday, March 22 and 23. The Oregon Artisan Spirits Tasting (TOAST) primarily features liquor in its most basic glory and sees the […]
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A Hot Dose for Your Brass Monkey
Click to view. Click on the video above—filmed at the Rum Club—if you’d like to see a winsome barkeep pour you a virtual cocktail while you’re still in your morning shorts. Bavarians have their radlers, subjects of the Queen have their shandies, and here stateside we enjoy the occasional liter of brass monkey. No matter […]
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Win Tickets for Tomorrow’s Mercury Version of “Shut Up and Dance”!
GUYS! Winter’s almost over and it’s time to drag yourselves out of your hovels and shake the rust off your bones! That’s why we’d like to cordially invite all of you to join us for tomorrow night’s (Fri, March 15) special Mercury-edition of “Shut Up and Dance” at Rotture (315 SE 3rd)! As you know […]
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SherryFest West Going On All Week
For the second time event (first time on this coast), SherryFest is coming to Portland to share and educate consumers and industry professionals on its namesake fortified wine. Created by Peter Liem, co-author of Sherry, Manzanilla & Montilla, and Rosemary Gray, director of RS Productions NYC, most of the Sherry fun will be taking place […]
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Fox Tower’s Applying for a Liquor License
No doubt noticing the success of Portland’s 18 billion beer theaters, Regal Cinemas has had their eye on getting a liquor license for one of their theaters for a while—a few years ago, the plan was for their Pioneer Place location to be the first, but that fell through. Now the sign to the right […]
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Portland Bartender Wins Seattle Speedrack
Bartenders are the best kinds of performers—the ones that are really good at looking cool, listening to your problems, and setting a drink down in front of you at the end of the show. So they compete—get used to it. It’s the most fun and harmless breed of bravado, and it’s usually a damn good […]
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Photos: The Malt Ball!
Photos by Rachel Milbauer. Last weekend’s Malt Ball was a raging success in every sense. The bands were loud and magnificent, every last one. The sell-out crowd was friendly and attractive and in full-on party mode (that may be the first time a mosh pit has ever broken out at a beer fest). And the […]
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The Malt Ball on Portland’s Pretty
Perhaps I’m unfairly stereotyping here, but normally a beer event wouldn’t inspire me with the potential for street-style photos. But, the Mercury‘s Malt Ball on Saturday, which combined a crap-ton of the region’s best breweries with a crap-ton of the region’s best bands, resulting in a surprisingly fruitful evening for Portland’s Pretty blogger Marissa Sullivan […]
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Do Not Forget (As If You Could): MALT BALL TOMORROW!
While this reminder is quite possibly superfluous, I also know you’re a busy person with a LOT on your mind—SO! Get your advance tickets for tomorrow’s super fun all-day affair The Malt Ball at the Wonder Ballroom! Your favorite craft brews specially made by Oregon’s finest brewers AND the best music Portland has to offer! […]
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Beer + Music = L.U.V. (or, a Charming Ad for Caleb’s Country Kolsch)
We paired 12 brewers with 12 Portland bands for this year’s Malt Ball. (For more about Saturday’s blowout, check out our cover story this week.) And one of the pairings was so fruitful, we didn’t just get a beer out of it, we got a song and a video about the beer as well. So […]