UPDATE 12:44 PM: NBC News have more information on suspect Lakeisha Holloway. Here’s what NBC News has learned about Holloway: She was awarded an Education Credit Management Corp. scholarship in 2009. A statement released by ECMC Foundation at the time said that recipients were selected by educators in the sophomore year of high school to […]
Horrors
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It’s Norovirus Season. Watch Out.
My six-year-old woke Tuesday morning with a low-grade fever and a stomach ache. I turned on the bedside lamp and let him crawl in bed with me. As I lay facing him on my side I soon noticed he began swallowing repeatedly. He opened his eyes wide and looked at me. I knew what that […]
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Meet Kevin… the Portland Mercury Street Team Ghost!
OoooOOOOoooooHHH! Hellooooo everybodyyy! Kevin, the Portland Mercury Street Team Ghost, here to tell you about alllll the WONDERFUL things you can read in this week’s issuuuuuuuue! OoooOOOooohh! • Are You Confuuuused by Public Art? Meeeee, TOOOOOOO! However, our very own JOE STRECKERT takes a GHOOOULISHLY fun look at Portland’s many public art pieces, AND gets […]
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The Walking Dead Recap: Use the Stairway, Dummy!
OKAY, I’m happy that I was RIGHT about a certain character surviving, but after the jump, I’m gonna lose my GOT-DAMNED MIND over how it was done! Are you ready for a full spoiler-filled recap of last night’s Walking Dead episode, and me losing my GOT-DAMNED MIND??? Then by all means hit the jump, and […]
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The Walking Dead Recap: Survivors Are THE WORST
Hello friends of the Dead! Did you watch last night’s edition of The Walking Dead, and you can’t wait to either talk about it or read my humorous ramblings? Then hit the jump for a spoiler-filled recap, and then let’s chitty-chat about it! (Note: I’m generally funnier when the show annoys me, and last night’s […]
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Breaking: Shoot-Out, Explosions, and Hostages Taken in Paris
Update 4:35 pm: Developing: At least 100 people are dead after a raid to free hostages at a Paris theater, the police say https://t.co/VZSH3cjphj — The New York Times (@nytimes) November 14, 2015 Update: 4 pm BREAKING: Police: Assault on Paris concert hall with hostages is over, at least 2 attackers killed.— The Associated Press (@AP) […]
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Last Chance: The Lost Boys-Live! Closes This Weekend
Guys! If you love laughing your pants off, be sure to check out the closing weekend of the heeee-larious show I’m in, The Lost Boys-Live! tonight (Friday, Nov 6) or tomorrow (Saturday, Nov 7) at 8 pm at the Siren Theater. It’s based on the classic ’80s vampire flick The Lost Boys starring Kiefer Sutherland, […]
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Walking Dead News: Series Renewal, and Will Rick Get His Hand Chopped Off?
Courtesy AMC “Does anyone have any salve?” There was such a kerfluffle about the presumed death of a certain character on last week’s episode of The Walking Dead, I neglected to even mention another possible loss from that same show: RICK’S HAND! The scene in question featured a fairly common battle between three zombies and […]
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How to Apologize for Being a Monster
Mary Contrary WHEN EXACTLY did Portland become a sprawling scare house, unrecognizable to even the oldest Portland witches and wizards? Well, RIGHT WHEN ALL YOU MONSTERS GOT HERE, of course! Look. It’s okay that you’ve come here to scare. This city is a magnet for the young and fanged. And (DUH), you’re not actually sorry […]
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It’s on TV This Weekend: Ash vs. Evil Dead
Courtesy Starz For those of you who know better than to go out on Halloween—there are monsters out there! And children!—at least you have a humdinger of a show to check out: the debut of Ash vs. Evil Dead on Starz, Sat Oct 31, 9 pm. The beloved Bruce Campbell returns to his most famous […]
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No-Cause Evictions Affect Monster Population
THINK IT’S HARD to find a home in Portland? At least you’re human! Monster advocacy groups are reporting that, in Portland’s tight rental market, they’re receiving complaints from houseless monsters that landlords are discriminating against them just for being who they are. Take Werewolf, for example. Over the summer, because of record-high temperatures, he kept […]
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Hey Monster! You’re Riding the Bus Wrong!
Olivia Storm OH. GREAT. You know, I thought we’d dealt with this already. But now it’s Halloween, so here we are again, because you monsters won’t stop riding the bus wrong. Let’s get this over with. Just like being on the bus, I’m not any happier to be here than you are. FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER WHY […]