Today marks a huge milestone for XRAY.fm, having officially taken over the dial at 107.10, getting a huge boost in broadcast range (it’s also still going at 91.1, in case you’re one of the rare souls who can get it there). To mark the start of their new era, XRAY is rounding up a bunch […]
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MUSIC—It’s time for another edition of Ear Candy: a FREE gift from the Portland Mercury and Mississippi Studios to you! Tonight’s slam-bang show features the shoegaze-y, fuzzy fun of Lubec (releasing their new CD tonight!), the new wavey, hard-edged pop of Night Mechanic (also releasing their new CD!), and the fresh-faced indie pop of Old […]
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SPORTS—Sure, you’ve been complaining all summer about the awful heat. But once the rain comes, you’ll be sad about that, too—secretly wishing you’d had just a little bit more fun in the sun. Head off those regrets while you still can! Come play and drink (and win cash-money prizes) at Kicktoberfest, the Mercury‘s inaugural (and […]
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MUSIC—After the release of her 2008 breakout debut album, Youth Novels, Swedish musician Lykke Li went underground to lick her wounds after a bad breakup. She resurfaced to release Wounded Rhymes in 2011 and has since followed that up with this year’s I Never Learn, continuing her run of bruised and tender pop, full of […]
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The Imperial Collection Officially Launches Today
The Imperial Collection by Anna Cohen represents a lot—for American manufacturing, sustainable apparel practices, and as an example of taking a new approach to bringing products to market rather than falling into lockstep with the industry’s mainstream. It’s a new division of the Imperial Stock Ranch, long celebrated as a model for sustainable practices. All […]
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COMEDY—The funniest person in all the world is coming to town to regale us with off-kilter jokes about pugs, mental illness, WASPy sisters, and unimpressed parents. It’s rubber-faced stand-up Maria Bamford and her delightful array of weird voices and hysterical stories. She’s the very embodiment of Portland—so let’s find a monacled puppy to present her […]
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COMEDY—Storytelling series are all the rage these days, and Risk!, the popular podcast and live show, is the best such series for hearing about, for example, someone shitting themselves on a first date. Tonight, creator (and alum of beloved comedy show The State) Kevin Allison brings the show to town. The theme? “Trash.” You’ll be […]
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SCIENCE—CSI is bullshit. Watching CSI while sober is bullshit. You wanna learn how crime scenes are really reconstructed? You wanna feel less like David Caruso and more like Will Graham? OMSI Science Pub features real crime-scene walkthroughs from a real reconstructionist, without all the Laffy Taffy-level one-liners. Oh yeah, and there’s beer. BOBBY ROBERTSCrystal Ballroom, […]
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STORIES—Haters who say history can’t be fun should be required to check out Stumptown Stories—tonight featuring Merc contributor Heather Arndt Anderson on Oregon’s first orchard keepers (and free-love cultists!!), as well as Wicked Portland‘s Finn JD John, who will relay the sordid scandal involving our bridges, dirty money, and the KKK. WM. STEVEN HUMPHREYSellwood Public […]
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Sexual Health with Friends of HUMP! and Savage Love
Add “sex” to the list of things you can go back to school for this season: Buster Ross of Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation—who’s helping out with the Minneapolis stop of the HUMP! Tour—is bringing a series of lectures to the Q Center over the next few weeks, called the “Sexual Health Series,” aimed at strengthening […]
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COMEDY—Neil Hamburger‘s Twitter trolling of dimwitted marketers for fast-food chains and department stores is reason enough to drop to your knees and bow before a comedy god. But don’t stop there! His sweaty, awkward, scotch-soaked throwback stand-up act never, ever gets old. Especially if you show up ready to heckle him. We dare you. DENIS […]
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MUSIC—It’s a sad, sad, sad day in Portland, because Laura Gibson is moving to New York. But hold off on the wailing and gnashing of teeth, because Stumptown’s favorite singer/songwriter is going to school and probably will only be gone for a couple of years. But those will be long, lonely years. Wish her bon […]