This week we have a very special episode of Late Night Action w/ Alex Falcone at the Portland Art Museum. Yes, for some strange reason the esteemed institution that is the Portland Art Museum made a huge mistake and allowed our comedy miscreants to run amok in their nice museum THIS THURSDAY at 8pm at […]
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Win Tickets to See Rudolph: On Stage!
LOOK. I would not bother you with this if I didn’t think it was 100 percent worth it. But facts are facts: You need a fun holiday show to attend that’s hilarious and won’t make you blow your brains out. That’s why I’m giving away TWO TICKETS to this Saturday night’s performance of Rudolph: On […]
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Congressman Earl Blumenauer is Really Upping his Dessert-Bribery Game
Yep, that’s a poster for Fast Five. 🙁 Sure, we all like to complain about the twee and offbeat image of this city so often beamed to the rest of the country. When that image descends on your place of business on a lackluster Monday afternoon, though, you’ve no choice but to embrace it. And […]
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Win a Pair of Tickets to HUMP!
Hey sex lovers! (As opposed to all you sex haters.) IT’S HUMP WEEK, which means everyone’s saving up their juices for the funnest, and sexiest li’l amateur porn festival around… HUMP! This year’s festivities start this Wednesday and go through Sunday, and many of the shows are already sold out. (Eep!) However, if you move […]
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Win Two Tickets to HUMP!
We’re less than a week away from the sexiest/funnest event of the year, HUMP! 2014! Woot, woot, woot! Be sure to read this week’s Mercury feature which describes the hilariously dirty movies you’ll see at this year’s festival, and to celebrate we’re giving away TWO TICKETS to next Wednesday’s, Nov 12 debut screening of HUMP […]
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Win Tickets to Live Wire with Dan Savage! Robin Lopez! Shane Torres!
This week’s Live Wire‘s really up our alley. While your mileage may vary when it comes to some of the show’s old time-y sketch traditions, but their guests generally lean on the best side of excellent. This Thursday’s lineup for the live taping is even better than most, with our own Dan Savage—just in time […]
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Win Tickets to Tonight’s Back Fence PDX: Reel Stories
Got plans tonight? Now ya do! “Our newest live storytelling format features behind-the-scenes stories combined with film/TV clips from the storytellers’ own work—including outtakes and never-before-seen footage,” says Back Fence PDX‘s B. Frayn Masters. They’ve assembled some of the city’s most interesting filmmaking types for the task: James Westby (Rid of Me, The Auteur), Beth […]
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Intrigue! Read the Staff Complaints that Led to the County’s Latest Emergency Management Shake-Up
As we report in this week’s paper, the office responsible for Multnomah County’s emergency planning experienced something of a mutiny starting in late June. Three separate employees complained to the county’s Office of Diversity and Equity that Joe Rizzi, then-director of the Office of Emergency Management, had committed a litany of managerial sins—including skipping out […]
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Free to a Good Home: the Greek Cusina Octopus!
HOLY HELL. Look, gang! The octopus from the old Greek Cusina downtown has popped up on Craigslist! Greek Cusina, on SW 4th and Washington, closed down more than four years ago, in January 2010—after a blistering code fight between owner Ted Papas and then-zoning Commissioner Randy Leonard. (That code fight later spilled into a court […]
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Last Chance! Win Tickets to this Weekend’s HUMP! Tour!
The HUMP! Tour has been a raging success across the nation, and now it’s come home to roost in Portland for one weekend only… STARTING TONIGHT (and through Saturday)! It’s some of the best short dirty movies chosen from years of HUMP! festivals, and you can read more about the lineup here, and get your […]
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Win Tickets to the “Best of HUMP!” Tour
Yahoooooie! The “Best of HUMP” tour—a curated “best of” night featuring some of the greatest HUMP dirty films ever created by regular sexy people of all sexual persuasions—is this coming weekend! It runs Thursday, May 15 through Saturday, May 17 at Cinema 21, and if you haven’t seen HUMP! before, it’s a great entry point […]
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Win a Pair of Tix to the Best of HUMP! Tour
HEY SEXY PEOPLE! The “Best of HUMP! Tour”—featuring a curated lineup of some of the best dirty flicks from HUMPs past (reacquired from the thrilled directors and casts)—is coming to Cinema 21 next week (May 15-17)! And as god as my witness, IT WILL SELL OUT. That’s why I’m giving away free pairs of tickets […]