After the last several months of cold wind and slippery, wet streets, all but the most hardcore of all-weather motorcycle riders are starting to get squirrely about getting back on their bikes. Just in time, Portland’s easiest-to-introduce-to-mom motorcycle club, the Sang-Froid Riding Club, are hosting two events to get you back in the saddle for […]
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Dolemite Tonight
Fuckin’ up motherfuckers is his game. Don’t miss Dolemite tonight at 7:30 pm ($7) at the Hollywood Theatre (4122 NE Sandy) as part of the Grindhouse Film Fest. All 35 millimeters of the best jive talkin’, all-girl army wielding pimp/entertainer/terrible karate practitioner you’re going to see this side of 1975. Need more convincing? Dolemite: totally […]
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GIVE A SHIT—Do you give a shit about politics or your community? Do you also like beer? Stop by the Bus Project/Mercury’s new monthly happy hour, Give a Shit Club, to meet other Portlanders who give a shit (or even two!) and learn about local activist, advocacy, and arts projects. SMGuild Public House, 1101 E […]
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Tomorrow Night: Become a Power Broker!
Kendall Clawson: She’s got the power. Tomorrow night the Mercury and Bus Project are hosting the first Give a Shit Club happy hour—come get a drink at the Guild Public House between the hours of 6-8pm and meet a bunch of young people interested in politics and action and political action. The Give a Shit […]
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BIRDSONG—The winsome folk-pop of the Finches is sweet but never squeaky, relaxed but never drowsy. With their new release, On Golden Hill, the California band will gently wrap its cute little finch talons around your heart and fiercely refuse to let go. Get ready to fall in love, hard. NLw/Key Losers, Alina Hardin; Valentine’s, 232 […]
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Come to the Give a Shit Club
Do you give a shit about your community, state policies, or national politics? Then come to the Give a Shit Club, a new monthly happy hour sponsored by the Mercury and local youth politics group The Bus Project. It’ll be an hour or two of meeting other young people who are involved in their communities, […]
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PAINT IT, BLACK—The artful, baleful music of Warpaint is persistently enveloping, drawing over your ears a thick, heavy curtain of post-punk, art-folk, ambient-rave-prog-rock, and other previously nonexistent genres. The all-female LA quartet’s debut album The Fool never reveals its entrancing mysteries, despite countless compulsive re-listens. NLw/PVT, Family Band; Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell, 9 pm, […]
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WARWICK DAVIS—This year, celebrate St. Patrick’s Day as the Irish have for centuries: By watching the 1993 horror classic Leprechaun, starring Warwick Davis as a vicious, rhyme-happy imp who loves only one thing more than his gold… BLOOD! Presented by Jackpot Records, this screening will also include green beer and Jennifer Aniston’s original nose. EHHollywood […]
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Tonight in Drunken Music Events
Grab your shillelagh, it’s time to club this night into submission. Aladdin Theater—St. Patrick’s Day Celebration: Kevin Burke, Cal Scott, 7:30 pm, $25-35 Backspace—Club 503 St. Patty’s Day Spring Bling: New Era, Jackie Piper, Sue Love, Get it Squad, Cam Cam, FIO Dance Crew, Mighty, Will Doby, 8 pm, $5, all agesBiddy McGraw’s—St. Patrick’s Day […]
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Bumpin’ Grindhouse
Alison just hit this in It’s Happening Tonight, but really you shouldn’t miss it: It’s the epic Trailer War between grindhouse movie stalwart Dan Halsted and mayhem movie maverick Seth Sonstein, where they’ll go head to head in a 35mm trailer battle. They each have 30 minutes to wow the audience with their personal trailer […]
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WE ARE DEVO!—Dust off your energy dome hat and pick up your yellow jumpsuit from the dry cleaners—’cause Devo’s in town! Moog enthusiasts and retro post-punk new wavers rejoice, as the delightful sounds of your favorite Ohioan band come to town. Whip it good, Portland, whip it good. CFCrystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside, 9 pm, […]
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On the Vagaries of the Internet
The rain is pouring down outside, I have a slight headache, and then I saw this on the internet. via MobyPicture It’s a Japanese panda clutching onto a policeman’s leg in terror following last week’s earthquake. I saw this, and was suddenly and overwhelmingly consumed by grief, and said to myself, “FUCK THIS [“this” being […]