I realize that not everyone shares my affection for festivals of all kinds, but for those who do, summer in the Portland metro area offers up some good ones: Sherwood’s Robin Hood Festival (so silly!), the Crawfish Festival in Tualatin (so delicious!), and this weekend’s Festival of Balloons in Tigard (so balloony!). At the risk […]
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Female Prisoner Pen Pal of the Week!
If you read this week’s Letters to the Editor, you know we’ve started a new weekly service called, “Female Prisoner Pen Pals” in which actual women prisoners from actual women’s prisons introduce themselves and make their pitch on why they’d like to be your pen pal. NOTE: The Mercury is not responsible for you getting […]
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Be a Female Prisoner Pen Pal!
In case you didn’t read this week’s Letters to the Editor in the print edition, we’re starting a new weekly service called, “Female Prisoner Pen Pals” in which actual women prisoners from actual women’s prisons introduce themselves and make their pitch on why they’d like to be your pen pal. NOTE: The Mercury is not […]
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If You Are the Type of Person…
…who says things like “I hate the Rose Festival. It’s all just people from the suburbs,” please take a moment to consider whether you might be a secret racist who hates poor people. Everybody else, SEE YOU SATURDAY AT THE STARLIGHT PARADE!!!!!
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Memorial Day at the Mausoleum
I’ve wanted to explore Wilhelm’s Memorial, that huge mausoleum in Sellwood, ever since I laid eyes on it from the Springwater Corridor. I got my wish on Monday, when the historic building opens to the public every year on Memorial Day. I walked four miles around that place (so says my pedometer) and spent nearly […]
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Local Actor Makes Insanely Sweet Lip-Synched Proposal Video
This video is delightful, and I have to admit that my first thought as it began was “DRAMA KIDS!” My thought a few minutes later was “hey, that guy looks familiar….” Turns out the proposer (who just fucking OWNED romance, sorry everyone else) is local actor Isaac Lamb—you might’ve seen him in Portland Playhouse’s production […]
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And Then I Died from the Internet.
WHAT IF COACH TAYLOR AND PRESIDENT OBAMA WERE BEST FRIENDS x_x (Okay, fine, a related note that’s not entirely inane: Buzz Bissinger, author of the nonfiction book Friday Night Lights, which inspired both the TV show of the same name and the above tweet from the president, will be at Powell’s on June 3 promoting […]
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Lindy West Is Taking Over the Internet
I don’t agree with every sentence of former Stranger Film Editor Lindy West’s critique of “hipster racism,” but the piece packs a few very salient punches, and Lindy’s ability to say smart, serious things in a funny, unserious way always impresses me. Racism is like a wily little bacterium. It doesn’t just roll over and […]
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You Axed for It: Axe Cop on TV
Axe Cop is coming to your TV! This is nothing short of amazing for fans of baby-hating writer Malachai Nicolle, age 8, and his comic book-drawing brother Ethan Nicolle, age 31! Fox bought the rights to make six 15-minute episodes for its upcoming late-night animation program, scheduled to air early next year. Currently they’re looked […]
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Betty & Veronica & Joss Whedon
I’m so buying this when it comes out in June. I wonder who’ll play Angel? Reggie seems like the most logical choice, but eeew. Archie’s more of a Riley Finn. It kinda seems like a lot going on with Veronica as Vampirella—too bad, she would’ve made a fantastic Cordelia. I see Jughead as Xander, a […]
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Happy Twin Peaks Day! AKA The Best Day of Your Goddamn Life
This is how happy I am. Maniacally, evilly overjoyed. Woh, settle down there, Ferguson. It’s just that today has been nothing but awesome what with Welcome to Twin Peaks pointing out that today is the day that Special Agent Dale Cooper showed his lovely face to the 51,200 freakazoids (I’m subtracting Laura Palmer from that […]
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Community Service for Naked Valentine’s Day Bondage Game
The O has an update on the Portland couple whose risky/sexy public bondage display wound up attracting a shit-ton of cops and international notoriety: The Multnomah County District Attorney’s office today reduced the disorderly-conduct charges to violations against the young Portland couple arrested on Valentine’s Day for so-called “role-playing’’ that had one witness concerned the […]