Music/Bands/Clubs
The New Decemberists Video Is Great, Unembedable
The new Decemberists album came out today. After listening to it maybe a thousand million times on NPR’s podcast over the past month, I bought it. It’s great, and that&...
Local Band Writes Extremely Local Song, About Sunday Parkways
Who is this band, the “Supervisor”? They are actually very good, if you like Americana-type jams and such. And they wrote a little ditty about Portland’s summer-l...
We Almost Forgot We Attended ‘Shine A Light’ This Weekend
Dang, we’re so late on this. But whatevs – we totally attended the Shine A Light music and naked wrestling event at the Portland Art Museum this weekend, and took the c...
Art/Culture
You Nerds Finally Have A Comic Book Club To Attend
You dorks like comic books, yes? Of course you do! And you drunks like beer as well, oui? Oui oui, you say! Well now there is some kind of support group for all of you comic-obsess...
The Mercury Nails The Feeling Behind Portlandia
The Mercury, which we love very much and would maybe try to mate with if we were also a newspaper, wrote a little review of Portlandia this week. And they nailed exactly what Your ...
Local Internet Radio Show To Go Un-Internet, Un-Local
Everyone’s favorite internet radio situation, Suck It, was rumored to have some fancy terrestrial radio deal lined up. That didn’t happen, but now local people and Suck...
Analysis
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Gresham’s New Towing Law Wins
Tow trucks are the ultimate racket. Getting towed is really the only time during the course of human existence when one simple decision – parking in the wrong place, or for t...
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You Nerds Finally Have A Comic Book Club To Attend
You dorks like comic books, yes? Of course you do! And you drunks like beer as well, oui? Oui oui, you say! Well now there is some kind of support group for all of you comic-obsess...
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In Case You Haven’t Seen A Grown Man Without Pants On Today
Ha ha, here is a video of Steve Humphrey, the actual editor of a major metropolitan newspaper, running around sans trousers for a Bike Transportation Alliance public safety message...
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Portland Is Shockingly Bad At Drinking
For those of you who think of Portland as a world-class drinking town, here’s a wake up call: According to a story in internet concern The Daily Beast, Portland is only the 3...
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Food/Drink
New Kid on the Block: Sterling Coffee Roasters
Yeah yeah yeah. Stumptown, Starbucks, Pete’s. It all tastes like coffee to me. Some strong, some weak, some like cardboard and some like bitter over extracted burnt beans. Bu...
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Sex/Strippers
In Case You Haven’t Seen A Grown Man Without Pants On Today
Ha ha, here is a video of Steve Humphrey, the actual editor of a major metropolitan newspaper, running around sans trousers for a Bike Transportation Alliance public safety message...
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Sporting Life
Why The Hell Can’t Portland’s Cyclists Signal Properly?
Do you see this moron in the photo above? That, in some places, is how you signal a right turn while riding a bicycle. But not in Portland! So why do you assholes insist on doing i...
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Recession/Economics
Gresham’s New Towing Law Wins
Tow trucks are the ultimate racket. Getting towed is really the only time during the course of human existence when one simple decision – parking in the wrong place, or for t...