Good Morning, News: Lloyd Center Mall, Frat Bros, and a Baby on Water Skis
by Doug Brown Good morning, Portland. Please enjoy this fine selection of high quality links. historicphotoarchive.comCheck out this week's great feature story about the Lloyd Center Mall, by Morgan...
View ArticleGet Your Tickets Now for Tacos 'N' Tequila!
by Mercury staff Portland, because the Mercury loves you, we're bringing two of your favorite things on the planet to one amazing event. It's called Tacos 'n' Tequila, and true to its name, it's a...
View ArticleWelcome to the Superhero Pajama Jam, X-Men!
by Bobby Roberts It's never really stopped being 2003 in the X-Universe. Even as the X-Men films skipped across timelines in decade-long leaps, they've carried with them the same faint air of...
View ArticleCheck Out the Gorgeous Trailer for Netflix's The Little Prince
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey As you may have read, Netflix is killing it lately thanks to their recent team up with Disney, and now they've scored again by picking up the exclusive U.S. rights for the...
View ArticlePlease Ignore Steve's Horrible, Misguided, Tragic Post About The Little...
by Erik Henriksen Steve is clearly... there's something wrong with Steve, I don't know what, but obviously he doesn't know what he's doing. He knows not of what he speaks, and until we can sort this...
View ArticleRegarding Hillary's Private Email Server: So What?
by Matt Baume Still the same Hillary she's always been.Krista Kennell / Shutterstock.comOkay, I guess we have to talk about this Hillary Clinton email thing. Personally, I'm hoping that the act of...
View ArticleAn Apparently Intoxicated Larry O'Dea Chugged Water As He Denied Shooting His...
by Dirk VanderHart Ashley AndersonThe Oregonian yesterday got a copy of the Harney County incident report involving Police Chief Larry O'Dea shooting his friend April 21, and it looks as bad for the...
View ArticlePost Moves' Mystery World Science Show Is Delicately Moody Guitar Pop
by Ciara Dolan XIMENA BEDOYATHIS WEEK Portland's Post Moves release their newest full-length, Mystery World Science Show. Its 12 songs of delicately moody guitar pop lazily but purposefully amble like...
View ArticleThe Domestics Play "Montgomery Park" Live at the Banana Stand
by Ciara Dolan Here's a video of the Domestics playing their unreleased track "Montgomery Park" live at the Banana Stand. Last year the Portland five-piece released their self-titled debut, ten tracks...
View ArticleAdmit It: This Defense of Voodoo Doughnut Makes Some Solid Points
by Bri Brey Yesterday we spotted this potentially blasphemous article titled, "In Defense of Voodoo Doughnut," over on Medium. Has it come to this? The end of days? In what parallel universe is...
View ArticleStream Sasquatch!, a Metal Map of Europe, and Ghost Ships Full of Synths—It's...
by Ned Lannamann Sasquatch! in 2015.photo via Billboard•Can't make it to the Sasquatch! music festival this weekend? Don't cry, Bigfoot (your wet fur smells worse than a damp dog anyway) because it's...
View ArticlePaul Simon at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Wed May 25
by Ciara Dolan LAST NIGHT Paul Simon was just as marvelous as you'd expect. He played to the sold-out Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall for nearly two hours, peppering his set with charming anecdotes and...
View ArticleThis Week's Style Events
by Elizabeth Mollo Some fun shit to do this Memorial Day weekend, you guys!!!And the anniversaries keep on coming! Flutter is celebrating 10 years of business with a party that will include DJs...
View ArticleA Wine Club Worth Waiting For—Plus, Vinlandia!
by MJ Skegg When Tom Monroe and Kate Norris established Division Winemaking they expected to have a wine club up and running within their first year. It’s actually taken until their sixth vintage, but...
View ArticleHousing Activists Showed Up At a Landlords' Gala. Here's What Went Down
by Dirk VanderHart Local landlord industry group MultiFamily NW held its glitzy annual ACE Awards tonight, and nattily dressed property management folks were breathless in anticipation for categories...
View ArticleGood Morning, News: Drunk Chief Problems, Cheering Comcast's Pain, and Obomba...
by Dirk VanderHart You've probably heard by now that Police Chief Larry O'Dea had bloodshot, glassy eyes and smelled of alcohol after he mistakenly shot his friend in the back. A Harney County...
View ArticleForget $15 Per Hour—Oregonians Now Need More Than That to Afford an Apartment
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey According to this story from The Atlantic's Citylab, a new report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition has found that the hourly wage needed to afford even a modest...
View ArticleIf You're Going to Turn Into an Animal, Deciding to Turn Into a Lobster Seems...
by Erik Henriksen Here's the thing about The Lobster, the thing that'll either make you want to see it or never see it: It captures what it feels like to be single. And not just that—it captures what...
View ArticleIn Francesca, Isabella, Margarita, A Pageant of Cringe-Comedy Antics at Imago...
by Katie Pelletier The first time I watched It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia at the urging of a friend, I didn't like it. I probably wouldn't have watched it again, but I found myself home with the...
View ArticleLa Sera Two-Steps into Country
by Ciara Dolan LA SERA Throwing garage-pop fuzz to the wind.JULIA BROKAWTHE CASUAL DEFLECTION of the title Music for Listening to Music To, La Sera's fourth full-length, might read as impersonal or...
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