The Malt Ball is only a few short days away! This Saturday, February 2, 12 bands and 26 craft brewers take over the Wonder Ballroom, and it’s going to be incredible. Tickets are for sale (and going fast!) but we’re gonna give away a pair of all-day passes to one lucky person reading this blog […]
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BEHOLD: The Malt Ball Video (starring Sons of Huns, Gigantic Brewing, and FIRE)
Good lord, this is going to be AWESOME. The Malt Ball happens Saturday, February 2 (hey, that’s Groundhog Day!) at the Wonder Ballroom. Get your tickets.
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Since You’re Going to the Malt Ball…
Have you got your tickets to the Malt Ball yet? Well, here is your handy reminder: Get your tickets to the Malt Ball! It all goes down on Saturday, February 2 at the Wonder Ballroom, and the bands we’ve got this year are really great: Radiation City. Caleb Klauder Country Band. And And And. Old […]
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True Facts About… Morgan Freeman
Today started off TERRIBLE! But now? Everything is better. Why? Because, thanks to this video by Ze Frank, I now know where I stand in the universe… and it’s all thanks to Morgan Freeman. Morgan Freeman is ultimately responsible for everything in the universe, because… Morgan Freeman. For example, “Morgan Freeman doesn’t have sex. When […]
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Announcing the 2013 Malt Ball!
I’m very pleased to announce this year’s Malt Ball—the music and beer festival that enters its second year with another stacked bill! The Portland Mercury paired with Oregon Brewers Guild last year (they’re now known as Oregon Craft Beer) to bring you the very first all-day fest of bands and beers, and it was so […]
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What Delicious Drinks Shall I Drink with the Vodka Ned Is Going to Buy Me?
The Oscar nominations will be announced in a mere nine days, which means I am a mere nine days away from winning my very own bottle of Dan Aykroyd’s Crystal Head Vodka, which Mercury Music Editor and Terrible Bet-Maker Ned Lannamann will be forced to buy me when Skyfall is not nominated for a Best […]
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Your New Year’s Plans: Drink Some Cider, Cider!
If you’re anything like me, you’re going to partay down tonight with some mother-lovin’ CIDER, my boyz und bizzies! And here are some children who are really feeling my cider steez—the Tempura Kidz singing, “Cider Cider”! (I love kids, I love tempura, and I love cider. Win, win, WIN in 2013, y’all!) Cider not your […]
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Last Weekend to Visit Downtown’s Bar Central
Marking one of the first closures of our relatively new wave of craft cocktail bars around town, Central announced earlier this month that they would be closing their downtown bar as of New Year’s Day, 2013 with limited hours leading up to January 1. This means you officially have three more nights to drink at […]
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Rum Club: Open Tonight
You’re taking a gamble every time you leave the house today that your favorite bagel shop/corner store/manicurist may or may not be operational. Of course you could always call first, or simply know this: The excellent, vaguely old mannish watering hole Rum Club will be open tonight, albeit with limited hours, from 8 pm till […]
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Drunk Santas: CONDEMN OR ALLOW?!?
SantaCon (in which people dress up as Santa and roam from bar to bar getting shit-pantsed drunk) is a raucous, inebriated celebration in many cities—especially Portland (continuing this Saturday, Dec 15 as well as Dec 22). HOWEVER! The backlash has begun, at least in NYC, where Gothamist is waging a war against this vomity holiday […]
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Radar Now Scoring on N Mississippi
I’ve never been so charmed by a sports bar. I’m not a football fan. I like basketball okay, and baseball can be entertaining for 10 minutes at a time, but I’m in the habit of actively avoiding the combination of sports and drunk dudes except on special occasions. And I’m generally too lazy and not […]
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Ke$ha Fights The Good Fight
Fight for your right to DRUUUUNK! Ke$ha is a warrior. Every day she’s in the trenches fighting the war on… sobriety, I guess. Maybe the war against pop stars like Adelle who can actually sing? I’m not sure. But I know there’s a war on and she just got called up from the Reserves. I […]