Tequila! Last night I met this man: That dashing fellow is Clayton Szczech. He’s the brain and brawn behind Experience Tequila. Szczech hosts tequila tastings around our fair city. He also organizes and leads ridiculously affordable tours to the heart of the tequila producing lands in… Lemme see here… Tequila, Jalisco, which totally makes sense […]
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Indulge at the Jupiter: Boozing it Up for a Better School Lunch
As a kid, I was once kicked out of school for the day because I wore a shirt disparaging school lunch. Admittedly, the shirt was gross. I believe it had a bright orange slogan reading “School Lunch Sucks” above a cartoon of a bug-eyed, doubled over, puking kid. Even then I was a critic. Whatever […]
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Dungeons & Dragons Soda Is Magical, Will Make All of Your Dreams Come True.
Perhaps because my diet consists largely of Kit-Kats, usually when I approach Mercury Food Editor Patrick Coleman about writing for the Mercury‘s food section, our interactions go like this: ME: Man, Patrick Swayze sure was graceful, wasn’t he? I’m really sad that he’s gone.PATRICK: Uh… sure?ME: Hey, that reminds me: You should let me review […]
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This Labor Day, Try Not to Smoke So Much Crack
If I know you, you’re gearing up to smoke some crack this weekend. My advice? DON’T DO IT. Though you don’t have as much going for you as Eddie (the protagonist in this video), I’d still like to see you do something with your life. Like maybe finish that solar-powered boat? No pizza in heaven, […]
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911 is a Joke, etc…
Okay, this beats the time I called 911 from my third floor apartment because there was a burning car outside. (Blame the movies! In a movie I would have been burnt to a crisp and decapitated by flying shrapnel!) BTW, the visuals are a little misleading. Car with padlock is not the actual car in […]
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“It could be that marijuana somehow stops alcohol from damaging brain cells.”
Not that you probably need any encouragement, but… Binge drinkers showed damage in their white matter. But those who drink and smoke showed more damage than the control group in only three of eight areas of the brain. In seven of the areas, their brains were in better shape than the binge drinkers. Mmmhmm. Okay.
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Barfly Does the Enchanted Forest
You all know how much we at the Mercury adore the Enchanted Forest. So it’s with equal measure of pride and joy and trepidation and protectiveness that I found out that BarFly is making one of its infamous bus trips down to the treasured landmark attraction on Sunday Sept 27. On the one hand, sounds […]
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Reggie Watts at Report Lounge
The Chesterfield was kind of a crappy bar, right? And now it’s closed and Report Lounge has replaced it, and I’ve been operating on the comfortable assumption, reinforced by a single visit, that it, too, is kind of a crappy bar. Based on recent booking activities, though, I’m inclined to give it another shot: By […]
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Fort George, Tonight at Green Dragon
From the Ft. George blog Not a Ball jar Of all the brew I swilled during my month of Oregon beer, I’d say that the most consistently pleasing came out of Fort George Brewery in Astoria. Over the month of July I tried the ultra-summery hop-less Spruce, which used pine tips in place of hops, […]
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Best Use for Memorial Coliseum
It’s been suggested that a velodrome be installed in the Memorial Coliseum. Frankly, that sounds more than a little boring. However, if the Coliseum were turned into the Northwest’s premier Indoor Synchronized Bike Riding venue, well then, that would be a whole different story. As you can see from the video below, Synchronized Indoor Bike […]
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Speakeasy + Tiki
Starting tonight, the fun tiki-loving folks at Tiki Kon are starting their boozy weekend off right with their seventh annual pub crawl, home bar crawl, hangover brunch, and puu-puu platter-y party. Sounds fun. Wish I had the scratch, but for all you richie-riches, here are the deets. Tiki KonFri Aug 7-Sun Aug 9$75 weekend pass […]
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Blindfolds and YouTube: Something Wicked This Way Comes
A harmless log throwing contest quickly turns to genital tragedy when a “friend” convinces the victim to put on a blindfold, and—surprisingly—proves himself to be less of a “friend” than previously imagined. On the other hand, the “friend” does get style points for the intricate manner in which he mutilates the victim’s genitals. (It should […]