DIRK DOES DALLAS—The only thing more dangerous than crossing paths with Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks is doing so in the final months of the NBA season. The Mavs are well on their way to a date with the playoffs, a destination the Portland Trail Blazers just might fall short of achieving this year. […]
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MOTIVATE—Fact: You are a lazy, unmotivated sack of shit. That’s why you need a panel of America’s most motivated dickheads to get you off your ass and into the mindset of SUCCESS™! Get freakin’ PUMPED UP by Rudy Giuliani, Steve Forbes, Laura Bush, Terry Bradshaw, and a formerly cool Bill Cosby at this daylong motivational […]
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BIGGIE—Pay tribute tonight to the late, great Notorious B.I.G. in the good company of the Live & Direct family, featuring Lifesavas’ Rev. Shines, Slimkid3, and DJ Nature rolling out live remixes and re-edits. Plus check out live painting with Tokyo’s Taka Sudo! MSRotture, 315 SE 3rd, 9 pm, $5 SHOCK ROCK—Grace Krilanovich’s debut novel The […]
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Submissions for the Mercury Fashion Show Due Monday!
Eek! Sneaky deadlines. Don’t forget, you still have until 5 pm on this Monday, March 14 to submit your apparel or accessory design work for consideration to fashion@portlandmercury.com for the Open Season fashion show—Portland’s biggest fashion event of the spring season! Go here for all the info you’ll need, and mark your calendar for Friday, […]
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Michael Showalter Wants to Be the Neil Young of Dave Eggerses
The best book written in the last 20 years about not writing a book is Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage. But if you’ve already read Dyer’s book about not writing a book about D. H. Lawrence and you’d like to find another quality entry in the book-about-not-writing-a-book genre, I’d suggest Michael Showalter’s Mr. Funny […]
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WE LOVE YOU TOO—The finest Canadian rockers since the Constantines went on hiatus, the PS I Love You duo are making the rounds in support of their critically adored debut Meet Me at the Muster Station. Fans of noisy guitar rock, prepare to fall head over heels with your new favorite band. EACw/Diamond Rings, Mnemonic […]
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FRIENDS 4EVA—With the bright, sweet “Tiny Hands,” Hutch Harris’ new band Forbidden Friends is a charmingly catchy counterpart to his usual Thermals gig. Forbidden Friends celebrate the single’s release at tonight’s show, for which some not-so-forbidden friends—Kathy Foster and Westin Glass, who you may know from his other band—will join Hutch. NLw/Karen, Ersatz; Valentine’s, 232 […]
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Alberta Rose Theatre—Live Wire!: Chervona, The Thermals, Wesley Stace, John Wesley Harding, 7:30 pm, $18-30, all ages Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall—Storm Large, Oregon Symphony, 7:30 pm, $33-153, all ages The Artistery—Artistery’s Closing Week & Animal Benefit: ioa, Deer or the Doe, The Humans, 7 pm, $5, all ages Backspace—Fashawn, Evidence of Dilated Peoples, Illmaculate, G […]
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YACHT ROCK—Set sail for the high seas (er, the Willamette River) as Google Hotpot’s second free show takes over the Portland Spirit for this nautical adventure. Pack your earplugs and Dramamine and enjoy sets from both Red Fang and the Builders and the Butchers on a freakin’ boat. EACBoards at Salmon Street Springs Fountain, SW […]
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Leprechaun: It’s Out of the Crate
Much like Garth, I’m terrified of leprechauns. Luckily, the charming Jackpot (of Gold) Records is on hand to give me and others like me some aversion therapy this St. Patrick’s Day. Let us gather and watch Leprechaun, in which Jennifer Aniston gets the run-around from a little dude in a green suit! From the press […]
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Don’t Forget! Submissions for the Mercury Open Season Fashion Show Are Due Soon!
The deadline to submit your work as an apparel and/or accessory designer is coming up fast! Submission are due to the Mercury by 5 pm on Monday, March 14! Please send us photos of your past completed work and a brief bio describing who you are as a designer: what makes you unique, what kind […]
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HOT WATER—The glowing sonic sketches of Baths—the alter ego of one Will Wiesenfeld—are warmly gorgeous and elusive. If that’s not enough aural beauty for one night, listen to how all the whirring pieces in the songs of Montreal four-piece Braids click together to make majestic, oscillating wholes. NLw/Gobble Gobble; Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison, 9 pm, […]