There’s a new store and gallery opening up in former Do or Dye salon space at 2730 E Burnside called Nationale. Billed as a gallery/shop on the blog site linked above, I have a call in to the owner, May, who you might recognize as the model for Una, for the details, but this is […]
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The “Lesbian-Owned, Oregon-Obsessed” Ginger Salon
Deanna Everson, a Banks, Oregon native who spent many years trotting around the country only to return to her home state, describes herself as “obsessed with Oregon.” She just opened Ginger Salon, and she’s using it not just to cut, color, deep condition, and wax hair, but to showcase her loyalty to the state: Our […]
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Fidel Castro Is Such a Portland Hipster!
Did anyone else do a double take when they saw the New York Times magazine this weekend? It features a young Fidel ‘n friends and they look like they came straight from Beulahland. Look at him! The cute aviator cap, the bushy beard, the Elvis Costello glasses. His friend to the left has that goatee […]
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Shop to Benefit Women’s Safety at Home and Abroad
Here’s another good suggestion for a unique, meaningful gift (or personal acquisition) to add to the holiday pile in addition those included in the Mercury auction benefiting the Portland Women’s Crisis Line: Kush, the southeast carpet store featuring hand knotted oriental rugs, is donating 50% of each sale of South Asian Patchwork Textiles to the […]
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Breeze Block Gallery Re-Opens Tonght
Migrating from its perch on NE Alberta, Breeze Block Gallery reopens tonight with a store-wide sale, the work of seven artists (Stephen Williams, Steve Mathews, Tiago de Jerk, Jason Graham, Garrett Price, Jason Vivona, and Raskoe), and DJ T. Rust. Come see the brand-new alley-side space (1847 E Burnside) freshly festooned with murals and spray […]
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No More Natalie Portman Shoes for You!
We hardly knew ye: Natalie Portman line of vegan shoes has gone bust–or rather Té Casan has gone bust (updating your website, eh?), taking Portman’s shoe lines down with them. Just thought I’d wrap up the day on an optimistic note. Bummer, dude. Oh wait, I found an optimistic note! Spanx for men!!
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Auction Items That Are Fashionable, Beautiful
This year we’ve managed to pull together some mighty fine auction items for the annual Mercury holiday auction, if I do say so, and this year all the dollars we raised go to the Portland Women’s Crisis Line. A few packages of particular interest to patrons of the local fashion scene, beautification adherents, or for […]
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Please Don’t Do This to Your Butt
I don’t care how big a fan you are of Jackass, the supposed new body piercing trend is just, erm, well, it’s NSFW, that’s for sure, and NSF the squeamish either. (Hint: Your are looking at the piercee from behind in this video.) Anyhow, that video is so 2007, etc, etc, but as with all […]
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Happy Birthday to…
I’d like to give a big shout out to a very important person who was born on this date, not so very long ago! It’s Britney, bitch! For her 27th Birthday, she decided she wanted a comeback. Here she is this morning, performing Circus on Good Morning America. I love grainy video of Brit. It […]
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“How Does It Work, Does It Just Suck Out Your Brain and Take All Your Money?”
Find out how it works on MOD.
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Shoppin’
In a quasi-homage to Black Friday, I’d like to share with you a beautiful editorial by the kickass Minh Tran, in which Andrea does some shopping of her own at local retailers Cameron’s Books, Stark’s Vacuums, Sunlan Lighting, Inc., Mercado Don Pancho, and Don Pancho Taqueria, all the while wearing the designs of PDXers Frocky […]