It’s hard to imagine a better day—the Fourth of July!—to plan a bass-driven, reggae concert for a lush, green city park that just so happens to be plopped near a residential neighborhood. Yes, neighbors might have endure amplified electric music. But what’s the big deal when they’ll already be enduring the way-more-terrible music playing from […]
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BREAKING: American Idol Auditions Come to Portland!
Though nobody asked for this—it’s gonna happen whether we like it or not: Pre-registration for auditions for the 11th season of American Idol will be going down (for the first time in Portland) at the Rose Garden on Thursday and Friday June 30-July 1, with the actual auditions taking place on Saturday, July 2! From […]
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Portlandia Needs Extras
“We’re still here.” Love it, hate it, or apathetically tolerate its continued existence, Portlandia‘s back for another season… and they need extras! They pay $70 a day, too, so this works out well for everybody, considering Portland’s unemployment rate is still at like 98 percent. Go here for more info, and here for a quick […]
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Can Voodoo Doughnut Make The Guinness Book of World Records?
Cancel your plans to drive over the Hawthorne bridge on August 6, when the PDX Bridge Festival‘s second annual “Brunch on the Bridge” returns, covering the bridge with 28,000 square feet of grass, trees, picnic tables, and lawn games—tickets were set to go on sale at noon today: In addition to all the barefoot cornholing […]
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Photos: Inside that Creepy St. John’s Building
If you’ve ever been up to Sauvie’s Island, you know the building: The haunted-looking Victorian relic moldering behind a fence next to Highway 30 just south of St. Johns. It may just be any old Superfund site, but the building’s broken window panes and cupola scream mystery in the making. People are obsessed with the […]
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How The Fire Fell: Joe Haege Is One Talented Preacher Man
You probably know that Joe Haege is no stranger to dramatic performance if you’ve ever seen any of his various bands (31 Knots, Tu Fawning) or seen him perform solo (he has a record out as Vin Blanc, and does anyone remember his solo piano venture? Something about a dead horse? Boy was that dramatic). […]
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How Was This Guy Even Allowed to Set Foot Inside a Bank, Let Alone Rob One?
Somehow, and I don’t know how, a man dressed in the most obvious bank-heist get-up ever was allowed to step inside several different banks in recent months, stride purposefully up to a teller window, and then utter a demand for drawer cash, in one case brandishing a gun, all apparently without immediately drawing suspicion or […]
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Nick Fish Unveils Portland’s First Fair Housing Plan
Illustration by Victor Kerlow Promising to smack troglodyte landlords with a cudgel—or just the rulebook, when warranted— Commissioner Nick Fish today unveiled what he repeatedly called a “bold and comprehensive” strategy for tackling housing discrimination in Portland. The plan by the Portland Housing Bureau, weeks in the works, follows intense publicity and consternation over a […]
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The Sexy, Sexy Sailor Photo Contest!
Here’s another Mercury FLEET WEEK FUN FACT™: Did you know that Fleet Week sailors are required to pick someone up if asked? IT’S MARITIME LAW. The Merc’s Marissa gets a “lift” from the boys in white! GET IT?? She’s being “lifted” physically as well as emotionally? FORGET IT!! We’re currently accepting YOUR photos of sexy, […]
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The Mississippi Flea
Since we’ve got so much in common anyway, why shouldn’t Portland have an answer to the Brooklyn Flea? Okay, yeah, back up. The first-ever Mississippi Flea is scheduled for July 23 (11 am-5 pm) in the lot next to Mississippi Records (N Mississippi & Shaver), and while the longstanding Brooklyn version is hundreds-strong, Portland’s first […]
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Say It Ain’t So!
From Esquire: …As in those weeks after Kurt’s death, my phone has not stopped ringing lately. “Did you hear? Can you believe the news?” And although I’m legally bound not to disclose particulars of the breakup, with so many other sources speaking about it, I can now publicly comment. You see, some days ago, a […]
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Attn. Geeks, Nerds, Dweebs, Dorks, and Mathletes: Prepare for a “Geek Olympathon”
The Portland Geek Council of Commerce and Culture is going all-out next month with a “Geek Olympathon”—a two-day-long endurance test of roughly a billion “geeky contests and events held all over Portland.” It’ll happen June 11 and 12, and it sounds… intense. Via the official site: For the duration of the designated weekend member organizations […]