That’s right folks. Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside is playing in a few short hours at the Doug Fir, and you’re invited. SM will be there shaking our tail feathers af...
Man, have you guys ever been to Vancouver? It’s all the way on the other side of that river, whatsitcalled. Anyway, tonight, there, in Vancouver, there’s some kind of s...
Hey dude and dudettes. Let’s talk music. I know that the festival is over and now it’s time to work some extra shifts at Wendy’s to make up that scratch you blew ...
Hey dudes! Your editor and former (current?) SM editors Tom and Joel will be selling awesome shit on Alberta Street tonight! Come kick it with us! It’s the second-to-last Las...
Oh hey guys. Dang, did you hear this shit: Some crackpot outfit called “MSNBC” or something says that Portland is, by some measure, the fifth-most tattooed city in Amer...
As fancy Mercury editor lady and “friend of the program” Alison Hallett pointed out last week, everyone and their great-grannies are lining up to take potshots at our c...

Well, adios, minor leagues. The Timbers played their final home game last night before being promoted to the majors next season. That should bring a mixed bag of family-friendly bu...

Like a lot of you hard working service industry slaves, I had to work while the friends went on the weekend camping trip to Beaver Lake. So, unlike my usual, early week blog about ...

Oh god, this is awful: The fancy internet publication “Enzyme PDX” (which we’d never read before, but totally approve of), published a story today about dragon bo...
Stumptown Magazine//We Are So Fucking Crucial

Aw snap, there’s a muhfuggin PARTY tomorrow, everyone! I know, I know – there’s a party every night in Portla-la-land. But this one’s better: It’s the...

Tanuki is a fucking bar, not a damn restaurant. It is a place for heavy drinking and boisterous socialization. Profanities and tales of debauchery still linger in the air from eve...

Hi gang! Dang, do we have some big ass news: We’re starting a new feature here at SM, in which a nice young lady who spends her days reading about all sorts of sexy but very ...

Well, adios, minor leagues. The Timbers played their final home game last night before being promoted to the majors next season. That should bring a mixed bag of family-friendly bu...

Two very enterprising young men decided that the best time to shoplift from Fred Meyer was when, like, 50 cops were in the store, helping little kids get ready to go back to school...