The Energy and Panache of Jah Wobble
The bassist-composer on keeping time and respecting the melody. by Robert Ham A FEW YEARS AGO, John Wardle, the UK-based bassist/composer better known to the world as Jah Wobble, decided to take up...
View ArticleLubec’s Forced Pause
On Cosmic Debt, Lubec stops to reflect. by Ciara Dolan OVER THE SATISFYING clink of ricocheting pool balls, Lubec frontman Eddie Charlton (vocals/guitar) describes the inspiration behind the Portland...
View ArticleGetting Real with Lydia Loveless
Getting Real with Lydia Loveless by William Kennedy LYDIA LOVELESS’ latest release, Real, is out now on Bloodshot Records, and there’s a lot to love for fans of her signature Tammy...
View ArticleThings to Do Music
Noteworthy shows for the week of September 28-October 4. by Mercury Staff WEDNESDAY 9/28TWIN PEAKS, WHITE REAPER, MODERN VICES (Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) Chicago-based quintet Twin Peaks are trading...
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Things to Do Film
This Week: Deepwater Horizon, some peculiar kids, and a creepy old wicker man. by Mercury Staff Author: The JT LeRoy Story It’s been called the greatest literary hoax of all time, but it wasn’t a...
View Article“His Word Against Mine”
Stories of sexual assault from the Portland music community by Ciara Dolan [Editor’s Note: The following article includes descriptions of sexual assault and may be disturbing to certain...
View ArticleDeepwater Horizon: Tragedy as Spectacle
The strange entertainment of Peter Berg’s latest. by Ben Coleman PETER BERG is an odd duck. He’s often written off as a journeyman director—an anti-auteur without any specific style or calling, but he...
View ArticleSandra Bullock Is Not in Queen of Katwe
A Disney-sponsored reminder that representation matters. by Elinor Jones THERE’S A NOT INSIGNIFICANT legacy of terrible movies about poor brown kids being taught out of poverty by godly white people...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor
“Much love to all survivors of rape.” {{image:1, align:right, width:250}} DO BETTERRE: “KGW’s Questionable Interview with Joel Magid Shows Disregard for Survivors of Sexual Assault” [Blogtown, Sept...
View ArticleBest Fake Friends Is... Oh God, It’s So Horrible
Real friends are honest. by Elinor Jones I’D LIKE TO START this review by saying that I commend anyone who has the guts to create something, and put that thing out into the world for consumption and...
View ArticleGood Morning, News: Don't Shoot Portland Meets with Mayor, Russians Tied to...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Hope you know when it's late at night, hold on to my pillow tight, and think of how you promised me forever. LET'S GO TO PRESS.Don't miss this week's...
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Cops Love Their New Union Contract. Police Oversight Advocates? Not So Much
by Dirk VanderHart Portland police officers have never loved a union contract like they love the one Portland CIty Council took up this morning. According to Portland Police Association President...
View ArticleThank You Portland (Follow Up to 2003)
by Anonymous I submitted an I anonymous post back around 2003. I was into my 2nd year of living in Portland at the time. I am originally from Madison. Wi. and spent a few years in the S/W before...
View ArticleYussing and Celling
by Anonymous The thing about yelling and cussing is people tend to think it shows how angry they are. They think it shows how much business they mean. They tend to think the more swearing is involved,...
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Uroboros Glass Is Closing, Partly Blaming New Environmental Regulations
by Dirk VanderHart Uroboros Glass, one of two Portland factories that found themselves subject to new environmental regulations earlier this year after it became clear they were emitting carcinogens,...
View ArticleThe Following Account Is Based On Actual Events
by Anonymous You went from mild mannered to full-on thug in a two month period. What happened? All I hear are the rumors that you slept with the supervisor's girlfriend, a fellow coworker. Here's the...
View ArticleNot the Three-Way You Had in Mind
by Anonymous Not the three- way you had in mind, is it, Gunslinger? Yeah, I slept with her. She's really wonderful, isn't she? The way she moves, the sounds she makes, where she puts her hands. And...
View ArticleYes, There is Something Wrong with California
by Anonymous But of course at this point there's nothing to be done about it. California is a consumerist utopia, and now that it's been rotting for long enough, it has turned itself northwards. Not...
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Good Morning, News: Uroboros Glass, the Police Union Contract, and Another...
by Doug Brown Good morning, Portland. I'll be bummed out if you don't click the links I've curated for you.Michela ButtingnolOut in print and online yesterday, check out this week's feature on the...
View ArticleShut that dog the F*ck up
by Anonymous Listen, I get it. You love to take a morning stroll through the Belmont District with your adorable dog. What is absolutely unacceptable is leaving your incessantly barking dog tethered...
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