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On the Town with Dale DeGroff
Good morning, Cocktail Week! As our city’s finest bartenders schmooze with other cities’ finest bartenders this week, learning to be better bartenders while getting w-w-w-wasted, they’ve managed to set aside a few notable events on the schedule for the rest of us to enjoy, too. Tonight’s is one of the most promising: James Beard Award-winning […]
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Cocktail of the Week: The Gardenia Club
Rum Club is, without a doubt, my favorite bar in town. And while I don’t take advantage of their excellent cocktail program as often as I should (it’s often beer and straight spirits with friends for me and my budget), bar manager Adam Robinson has never made me a bad drink—and the Gardenia Club is […]
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American Distillers Fest Warms Up Downtown
The Eighth Annual Great American Distillers Festival will grace the Tiffany Center downtown today from 5 to 10 pm and tomorrow from 1 to 10 pm, meaning over forty bartenders and sponsoring distillers will be warming you up for Portland Cocktail Week with shots of knowledge about more obscure brands of liquor. Domestic spirits have […]
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Will Ferrell’s Swedish Old Milwaukee Beer Commercials
Look! Don’t ask me to explain everything, okay?!? Just accept the fact that Will Ferrell is making commercials for Old Milwaukee beer in Sweden, and this is why, according to him: I just love a good, crappy beer. Fair enough. Here are two of them. Translated: “This is my boat. This is my woman. And […]
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Watch the Prezzy Debate with the Mercury—TONIGHT!
GUYS! Don’t forget that tonight at 6 pm, the Mercury is hosting a Presidential Debate drinking/viewing party at the Back Stage Bar (3702 SE Hawthorne)! For those refusing to keep up, Obama has a lot of ground to make up after botching the first debate—but luckily tonight is the “Town Hall format” which means Romney […]
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A GENTLEMAN’S WAGER
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Internet, Let it hereby be known that I, Mercury Senior Editor Erik Henriksen, and my esteemed colleague, Mercury Music Editor Ned Lannamann, have made a GENTLEMAN’S WAGER. The wager, in question, shall be settled on the 10th of January, 2013, when the nominations for the 85th Annual Academy Awards are […]
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Cocktail of the Week Premiere: The Cafe Racer
I drink a lot of cocktails. The good ones are boozy, as interesting and complex as any solid dish, and I admire our local wealth of craft cocktailers who put an astonishing amount of time and energy into balancing these liquids (at the same time having to deal with an often picky or downright disrespectful […]
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Saturday Market Should Always Be This Boozy
I don’t think I’ve gone to the Portland Saturday Market on purpose since high school. There’s somehow always something better to do than look at hippies and jewelry that I may want, but shouldn’t buy—and “something” is often drinking. Apparently Saturday Market has learned how to read my mind (a secret I wish they’d share […]
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“The Wurst” Now Open on E. Burnside
A dance studio held down the space on the ground floor of the Bossanova Ballroom building for twelve whole years, and the end of said era apparently arrived quietly and recently. I noticed when Viscount moved to a larger space between Beaker & Flask and Rum Club on SE Sandy Blvd, but only just checked […]
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Police Want Old Town Bar District to Go Car-Free On Weekends
Cutting through NW 3rd Avenue on weekend nights is a bonkers experience. In the space of a few blocks north of Burnside, rather intoxicated patrons of bars like the Barrel Room, Dirty, the Dixie Tavern, Tube, and Yes/No spill out into the street, talking, smoking, balancing on tiny heels, getting into fights, popping their collars, […]
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Star Bar Turns Two! Also, My Favorite Big Star Song.
Star Bar—the proud owners of our favorite Big Star-themed neon sign in town—turns two this Saturday, and although it’s not old enough to drink, you are. They’ve quietly been putting on solid rock shows and DJ nights over the past couple years, but Saturday will be anything but quiet. They’ve put together a killer bill […]