Good news: Video Games Live, the world’s premier fusion of video game music and fancy orchestral accompaniment is coming to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Bad news: The show isn’t until November. Good news: The VGL folk have scheduled two shows to ensure that everyone has a chance to cry like a little girl with […]
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Saturday! Street Fighter! Ground Kontrol! Nihilism?
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche once wrote “Some men are born posthumously.” Admittedly, it sounds better in the original German — or, at least, more like an angry demand — but I think you see what I’m getting at here: Street Fighter is awesome. Try to ignore the circuitous segue there, and instead focus on this Saturday’s […]
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Win Tickets to the Grindhouse Film Festival’s Screening of The Toolbox Murders!
Goddamn, movie posters used to be so much cooler. Anyway, this Saturday at 7:45 pm at the Hollywood (4122 NE Sandy), the Grindhouse Film Festival will be showing The Toolbox Murders. Check it: Wanna get two free tickets? Then email me before 5 pm today, and make sure your subject line is “Toolbox.” I’ll pick […]
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Fold, Fold, Fold, Unfold, Refold, Throw
Not sure if you already have plans this weekend, but THIS GUY is coming to the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum. He’s the Paper Airplane Guy. Stop snickering. Paper airplanes are cool. I have been mildly obsessed with them since childhood, when I tried to make every plane in my Usborne Book of Paper Airplanes*, […]
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Things I Am Obsessed With (Part Two of a 758 Part Series)
Dancing and dinosaur costumes just happen to be two of my most favorite obsessions. One might call dancing a hobby, but due to an intense lack of rhythm and unrelenting propensity to keep trying, it has become an obsession. Since I try to wear my child-sized dinosaur costume as much as possible (I must get […]
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More Lovey Crap.
We at the Mercury love love*, and my Valentine to you is this list of arts-related V-Day events. You’re totally welcome. <3 <3 xoxo UPDATED LOVE: This just in from the fabulous Cosmic Monkey Comics: Subject: Presidential Valentine Anniversary Sale! In honor of the 2nd anniversary of our store on Sandy Blvd, a pagan fertility […]
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Be Your Own Valentine at Lille
Here’s one for the single woman staring down the barrel of “singles awareness day,” or for the non-single ladies out there who just happen to buy their own lingerie (it’s probably for the better that way anyway, don’t you think?): Lille Boutique (1007 E Burnside) has been selected as one of 20 best lingerie stores […]
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Twee Time: The Bird and the Bee with Obi Best
The Bird and the Bee headline tonight at the Doug Fir (9 pm, $10), a jazzy electro-pop twee duo out of L.A., consisting of Greg Kurstin (fun fact: Kurstin wrote and produced Lily Allen‘s latest release, It’s Not Me, It’s You) and Inara George (fun fact: She is the daughter of late Little Feat frontman […]
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Less Problems, More Solutions
The fine minds over at OFFICE PDX (2204 NE Alberta) are putting together a discussion panel on Innovation During A Recession, featuring some people you might want to beg for a job network with: Michael Shea, creative director of Nike; Nicholas Weigel, director of Laika/house (fresh off what’s looking like a successful Coraline debut); and […]
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Red Carpets and Model Geekery
So I learned a couple things at last night’s PIFF red-carpet premiere of Coraline: (1) Portland is incapable of being fancy. (2) Neil Gaiman is adorable and nice. (3) Portland does know how to be nerdy at awesome, articulated-model afterparties! Turns out that Portland has no idea how to conduct themselves at one of these […]
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It’s (Eeeeeaghh!) World Nude Day.
That’s right, February 6 is World Nude Day— or as it’s more aptly known, World “People You Really Don’t Want to See Nude” Day. Here’s just one example of hundreds of videos and pictures from the World Nude Day site. (Kinda NSFW-ish) Please, people! Let’s leave this sort of thing to the professionals!!
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I’m the Worst Red Carpet Interviewer Ever!
‘Cause all I asked Neil Gaiman at last night’s fancy-pants Coraline premiere was, “Will you take a picture with me?” in a wheezing, panting voice. YAYYYYY! It’s me and NEIL GAIMAN! Much, much more about the red carpet experience (and listening to Teri Hatcher pee) later this afternoon when I pull myself together.