August 26th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Art/Culture, Features
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 Last Thursday of the year, and there’s no better opportunity to see the fucking FREAK SHOW that is Portland. Plus: Tom will be selling his fancy [...]
August 20th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Art/Culture, Features
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 America. Fifth. That means we’re LOSING. Quick, hipsters: Go get more trees tattooed on your backs! Your city is counting on you! We have no idea how [...]
August 9th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Art/Culture, Features
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 city – and we probably deserve it. As the Merc reported, Lorne Michaels will have something to do with a new short comedy show called “Portlandia”, which [...]
July 30th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Art/Culture
God, we haven’t played pinball in ages. Don’t know why – just haven’t picked up the flippers in who knows how long. And by “who knows how long,” we actually mean, like, two weeks. BUT STILL. Anyway, if you have hit the flippers lately, and you think you’re pretty good, you should go to Slabtown [...]
July 2nd, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Art/Culture, Features
Even though we were too broke to kick in for a sponsorship, we totally heart 30 Hour Day, what with their fancy charity work and all. So here, for your viewing pleasure, is the event’s live stream. It’s going on for *ahem* 30 consecutive hours today and tomorrow, so tune in for lafs and music [...]
June 21st, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Art/Culture
Ground Kontol totally fucking demolished whatever other crappy arcades were in the running for Stride Gum’s $25,000 “Save The Arcades” challenge, so yippee, we all get to play more 1980s video gams and such forever. The folks at GK must have been pretty confident about winning the cash, because the’ve already released a mock-up of [...]
May 19th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Art/Culture, Features
Last week, Stumptown Magazine had the pleasure to sit down with Jillian Lauren, punk rock fan and author of the New York Times bestselling book Some Girls. Lauren has been making the rounds on the Portland interview circuit over the past few days, but for those unfamiliar with her story, she was a former member [...]
May 18th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Art/Culture, Features
Your favorite adult playpen, Ground Kontrol, wants to expand its top-floor pinball room to house even more machines that will ruthlessly eat your money. Now you can help. All you have to do is – oh yes, you betcha – play video games. Chewing gum maker Stride is hosting an online contest – “Save The [...]
May 11th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Art/Culture, Features
The folks at Hand2Mouth Theatre have been walking the line between performance and research project for the better part of a decade now – quite a run for a very risky type of theater that, in many cases, enlists the audience as beta testers for theatrical and often social experiments. Now they want to blast [...]
May 10th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Art/Culture, Features
Hey look at this, it’s Voodoo Doughnut dude and Wheels of Justice coach Rob Lobster, explaining to you dorks the rules of roller derby, using doughnuts. Nifty, right? There is nothing else going on today. Enjoy!