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View ArticleGrowing Up with Milo Auckerman of Descendents
Descendents’ new record Hypercaffium Spazzinate features fewer fart jokes and more lyrics about credit scores. by Aris Hunter Wales TO SAY THAT Descendants were a groundbreaking West Coast band in the...
View ArticleThe Mystical Power of Jenny Hval’s Blood Bitch
Norwegian musician Jenny Hval’s new record Blood Bitch reveres taboos like menstruation. by Anna McClain BLOOD PERMEATES our lives and elicits a wide range of reactions: horror, fascination, pain,...
View ArticleSneaker Wave
An ode to Ms. Lauryn Hill. by Jenni Moore THE FACT THAT Ms. Lauryn Hill has released just one studio album is baffling. But to be perfectly honest, I don’t want her to drop another if it can’t live up...
View ArticleToro Y Moi’s Chaz Bundick Talks Blending in, Standing Out, and Staying Real
On his new visual album, Live from Trona, Chaz Bundick of Toro Y Moi plays to an empty desert. by Guadalupe Triana FROM THE YOUTHFUL DAZE of his debut full-length, 2010’s Causers of This, to last...
View ArticleThings to Do Music
Noteworthy shows for the week of November 9-15. by Mercury Staff WEDNESDAY 11/9TORO Y MOI, THE MATTSON 2 (Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell) Read our story on Toro Y Moi.RAE SREMMURD, LIL YACHTY, EEARZ,...
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Things to Do Film
An Arrival, some Time Bandits, and James Franco does gay porn! by Mercury Staff The Accountant It’s not hard to imagine how Ben Affleck was convinced to sign on to The Accountant. “Hey Benny!”...
View ArticleThe Close Encounters of Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival
First contact with mysterious aliens? WHAT COULD GO WRONG by Erik Henriksen GENRE MOVES LIKE geology: There are long stretches of gradual, creeping change, and then there are unexpected interruptions...
View ArticleWoman in Crisis
Christine is a humane, improbably funny depiction of a woman in crisis. by Megan Burbank IF YOU KNOW who Christine Chubbuck was, the prospect of watching an entire movie about her may fill you with...
View ArticleGay Porn (and James Franco) in King Cobra
Oh, and melodrama. Also melodrama. by Eric D. Snider DESPITE BEING a true story of jealousy and murder in the world of gay porn, King Cobra is neither thoughtful enough to find meaning in it, nor...
View ArticlePlaying the Odds at the Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival
You can’t win ‘em all, but this regional fest has plenty to offer. by Ben Coleman REGIONAL FILM FESTIVALS are a gamble. For every uncompromising new vision, there’s an obnoxiously inaccessible art...
View ArticleA Lot Went Wrong on Election Night
But here’s what happened in local races. by Dirk VanderHart A YEAR THAT upended political precedent refused to exempt Portland City Hall on Tuesday.In the biggest political upset in a quarter century,...
View ArticlePortland’s Pretty
This is how to throw a party—and what to wear. by Marissa Sullivan EVERYBODY HAS ONE, right? That cool friend who organizes a bunch of amazing shit in town, has an interesting job, and also dresses...
View ArticleHe Grabbed America by the P***y
by Anonymous Quit your whining already. It's over and Trump won. We need to stand tall and take the higher ground. Let us not be whiny little children and start yelling that, "The system is rigged!"...
View ArticleA Historical Moment
by Anonymous I didn't vote for either. It seems like a dream. I'm not surprised though. He may be one of the only ones that has ever said exactly what was on his mind. Controversial and inconceivable...
View ArticleMorning, News: Formerly Known as “Good Morning, News”
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey MORNING, BLOGTOWN. Thought it would be over by now, but it won't stop. Thought that I would self destruct, but I'm still here. Even in my years to come, I'm still gonna be...
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Recap: The Blazers Blot Out The Suns, 124-121!!
by Aris Hunter Wales Last night was election night in the grand ol’ U.S. of A. If you weren’t waiting in line at the polls, or sitting in traffic on the way to a ballot box, odds are your mind was...
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Good Morning, America. Welcome To Your White Supremacy
by Ijeoma Oluo The White Supremacist House. ESB Professional/shutterstock.com#mc_embed_signup{padding: 20px; background:#fff;font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;width:100%;}To get this delivered to...
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Jim Jarmusch Mythologizes the Stooges in Gimme Danger
by Ned Lannamann The Stooges are hardly the type of band to be given the preening rock-doc treatment. Despite the esteem they accrued in the years after their 1974 breakup, the abrasive Michigan...
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"Fuck Donald Trump": Video From the Downtown Portland Election Night Protest
by Doug Brown Will CorwinSeveral hundred Portlanders took to the streets for a few hours late last night to voice their displeasure that Americans voted for national suicide. They gathered downtown at...
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