August 31st, 2010 | by Tyler | published in Features, Food/Drink
So your favorite local beer dudes at Migration just sent me a little letter. Apparently these guys are releasing two more beers…um yes please. “Ah ha! More details” you say. On September 18th Migration is hosting a benefit for Pangaeaproject (WTF?? Cool…Check it). These guys are totally cool for doing this, but there’s a BBQ [...]
August 31st, 2010 | by Tyler | published in Analysis
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 the great outdoors, I’ll talk to you a little about Nanofest, the place where beer is born.
August 30th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis
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 boaters having to paddle through the Willamette River, which is made entirely of human feces. Your editor has a pretty strong stomach for such things, so when a story [...]
August 28th, 2010 | by Cooking Asshole | published in Features, Food/Drink
After Baconfest my buddy wanted to hit up Upright Brewing and I obliged. If you don’t know about Upright you better fucking ask somebody. I was about to take a picture and this random psycotic drunk dude jumped in and posed. I am pretty sure he was holding his hand like that on purpose. [...]
August 27th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Food/Drink
Portland has a lot of food carts. Some are very good. Some are not so good. And some are fucking awful. But now, some wiseguy has started a blog featuring IMAGINARY food carts. Way to find a niche in the market, dude! A gentleman named, um, maybe Bill Oakley started a little blog, maybe yesterday [...]
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 25th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Recession/Economics
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. They just walked in the store, and while the cops were distracted by the children of Portland, they clipped off price [...]
August 23rd, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Features, Food/Drink
Dudes, what a crazy weekend, huh? What with the Alberta Street Fair deal, and then Sallie Ford, and so on. Oh yes, and also: Baconfest happened. We went. Here is our evidence. First of all, let us just say: Baconfest was, if nothing else, on topic. It was like that perfect theme party, where everyone [...]
August 22nd, 2010 | by Tyler | published in Features, Music/Bands/Clubs
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 after a grueling night of eating Bacon at Baconfest and wandering the streets up on Alberta. Leave it to Sallie Ford though to wash [...]
August 20th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Recession/Economics
Well, you have to give credit where credit is due: The feisty anarchist dorks at Red & Black Cafe have taken all of the hate mail they received after refusing to serve coffee to a cop that one time, and turned them into spokecards. And they’re hilarious! The Merc has the photos, but suffice to say [...]