Hey, Blogtown! I know you’ve probably missed me (I mean, who wouldn’t, right?), but I haven’t gone far. In fact I’ve been kicking it with the Mercury Arts crew over at our TBA Blog where we’re having all sorts of pretentious high-minded fun as PICA’s Time Based Art Festival continues to chug along. I just […]
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Plaid Pantry CEO: Tweak the Proposed Booze Ban
The president of the 103-store Plaid Pantry grocery chain, Chris Girard, has taken a position against a city plan to ban sales of malt liquor and fortified wine downtown, the Mercury has learned. Girard emailed his thoughts to Commissioner Amanda Fritz, leading the push, on Monday. And he also made sure her fellow commissioners received […]
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Dan Aykroyd is Coming to Jantzen Beach
Did you know that Dan Aykroyd has a few opinions about aliens? Nothing special, just your run-of-the-mill opinion that space aliens hate earth because of 9/11—I guess that means he doesn’t support construction of that alien landing strip at Ground Zero that is parading as a mosque—and that these extra terrestrials should be arrested by […]
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This Week’s Mercury Food Section: Damn Your Clientele!
In this week’s Last Supper we head on over to the Pearl to dip our taste buds into the lukewarm menu of Irving Street Kitchen. I say “lukewarm” because while the simpler small plates are pretty damn good, the entrees falter, leaving the diner with an uneven experience and dashed expectations. But that’s not what […]
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How to Solve Portland’s “Manliness Problem”
You know what? I’m getting sick of the whole “Portland doesn’t have any real men,” shtick. Even though, on some level, I get it. I could go on a whole diatribe that cross references Portland’s pseudo-European zeitgeist with the rise of Don Draper and then link the whole thing with the metaphorical emasculation of tight […]
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Suck It, Teetotaler!
I was having an OK day until I found a Time magazine article on alcohol consumption… Suddenly, everything was brighter. Brace yourself, Blogtownies, for some of the best news you will receive all day. From the recent article: …a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that – for reasons that […]
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Unfortunate Vodka Situation
How many times have you been knocking back vodka shots with your pals, when you stop to realize that the Grey Goose you’re swilling isn’t doing shit for your freakishly sculpted abs? Never? Oh. Well, the makers of Devotion Vodka have. They’re making a vodka that has about two grams of protein in every shot, […]
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Lonesome’s Pizza Delivers Happy Meals for Big Kids
Yesterday I ordered dinner from Lonesome’s Pizza (523 NE 19th St). When my buffalo-chicken pie arrived (referred to on the menu as a “Lou Ferrigno vs. a shark with throwing stars for teeth”), I opened the box to find something unusual: Inside was my sriracha-doused miracle, as well as a CD glued to the lid, […]
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Bunk Bar is Now Open!
photo courtesy of Matt Brown’s Facebook profile. If you’ve ever braved the line that spills onto SE Morrison, you know that Portlanders will do just about anything for a mouthful of Bunk. Now you can experience the stomach padding thrill of their sandwiches without standing on the sidewalk. Oh, you can drink too. Bunk Bar […]
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Hunger Games Cocktails!
Hey, local bars! Somebody, preferably somebody centrally located: On Monday, host a Hunger Games night with drink specials, okay? Because the third book in the trilogy is coming out, and I and a surprising number of my friends are really looking forward to it, and probably going to go to the release party at Powell’s, […]
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Yet Another Reason To Love Whiskey!!
Besides being a sure fire way to get you surly and happy all at the same time, it has recently been discovered that whiskey has other amazing qualities. Ones that may just save the earth! According to guardian.co.uk, researches in Edinburgh, Scotland have found a way to turn by-products of whiskey into a biofuel that […]
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A Drier Downtown: Meeting Tonight on Booze Ban
cvillain.com OH YEAH! Pretty like Kool-Aid. Portland’s pooh-bahs are taking another step down the road toward clearing downtown and its environs of all malt liquor, fortified wine and other beverage types popular with “street drinkers,” including tall-boys of regular beer and boxed wine (yum!). Tonight, right about when happy hour starts in most saloons, the […]