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Abbey D'Agostino and Nikki Hamblin Embody Everything Good About Distance Running
by Megan Burbank Abbey D'Agostino helping Nikki Hamblin up after they both fell in the second heat of the women's 5000-meter run today.Screen shot via NBC OlympicsFor a number of dumb reasons not...
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Feds Arrest Man For Threatening to Kill a Portland-Based FBI Agent
by Doug Brown After months of repeated threats to kill FBI agents and internet posts that he might become "another" Timothy McVeigh or Osama Bin Laden, the FBI arrested a man who was found curled up...
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You Might Soon Be Able To Pay For Parking With Your Smart Phone
by Dirk VanderHart Portland City Council tomorrow is slated to consider a five-year, $1.5 million contract that would allow drivers in Portland to skip the (brief) visit to the city's green pay...
View ArticleShort-Staffed Cops Are Being Forced to Trim Specialty Units to Adequately...
Here’s where the cuts might be coming from. by Doug Brown How thin can the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) trim some of its specialized units? We will find out soon, as the bureau finalizes plans this...
View ArticleAsk a Pot Lawyer: Weed Fraud at a Portland Dispensary
Of weed, felons, and duped Canadians. by Vince Sliwoski TELL MEabout the weed fraud case!WEED, FELONS, forgeries, lawsuits, California swindlers, and duped Canadian backers—the weed fraud case had it...
View ArticleCannabuzz: Weed Reads
What to read before—and after—you get high. by Josh Jardine HELLO THERE! Do you enjoy reading? How about reading about cannabis? I ask because if you’re reading this column (or if it’s being read to...
View ArticleOne Day at a Time
Are YOU a candy ass? by Ann Romano MONDAY, AUGUST 8“At a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, just now, Donald Trump seemed to suggest violence as a remedy should Hillary Clinton win the election in...
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Presidential election tips for Donald Trump. As of this writing, Republican nominee Donald Trump is trailing rival Hillary Clinton by double digits in the presidential race. Even revered statistician...
View ArticleTurtlenecked Puts Paranoia in Context
The Portland band’s Pure Plush Bone Cage is clean and chaotic. by Mac Pogue HARRISON SMITH sits with his thin arms and legs folded neatly under the table, one eye squinting in the shifting sunlight....
View ArticleRecord Review: Coco Columbia, When the Birds Begin to Walk
The musician embarks on her own wild-eyed trajectory. by Robert Ham WHENEVER JAZZ ARTISTS attempt to meld their sound with other genres, or vice versa, the results tend to be a mixed bag. The music...
View ArticleSam Coomes’ Cubist Pop Freakout
The Portland musician’s first solo record goes black and white. by Ryan J. Prado “I NEVER have been interested in doing a solo album, or having a solo career,” says Sam Coomes at a sidewalk picnic...
View ArticleRecord Review: Federale, All the Colours of the Dark
On their new album, Federale isn’t just an Ennio Morricone cover band. by Ciara Dolan FEDERALE ISN’T SHY about their influences—it’s pretty obvious that the Portland band longs to make snow angels in...
View ArticleAll-Ages Action!
This week’s all-ages shows. by Emma Burke WED AUG 17The Castaway Kidsw/Amber Moon, Pedestrian Street Gang; Holocene, 1001 SE MorrisonPortland is a great incubator for teen indie rock projects, and the...
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Things to Do Film
This Week: Grindhouse Eastwood, Clashing Titans, and Penelope Spheeris' Punk Rock Summer Bummer by Mercury Staff Anthropoid A fantastically paced, impeccably accurate historical thriller nestled...
View ArticlePain and Motherhood in Viktoria
Post-Soviet, postnatal. by Kjerstin Johnson IT’S 1979 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Boryana (Irmena Chichikova) lives with her husband and mother in a cramped apartment, consumed by her desire to leave the...
View ArticleKubo and the Two Strings Is as Good as It Looks
Laika’s newest stop-motion feature is sooooo pretty. by Courtney Ferguson THERE WAS a bit of a lull after Laika’s 2009 feature debut Coraline, but the local animation studio has once again nailed it...
View ArticleThe General Still Delights, 90 Years Later
The Hollywood Theatre celebrates the film’s birthday with a live score. by Robert Ham THIS YEAR, two Oregon-born landmarks of cinema are sharing a 90th birthday. It was in 1926 that the Hollywood...
View ArticleHubris, Cocaine, and the Bad Boys of War Dogs
Watch Jonah Hill get punched in the face! by Ben Coleman LIKE BLACK LICORICE or the PT Cruiser, Jonah Hill is divisive. I have friends who can’t get enough of his potty-mouthed braggadocio, and others...
View ArticleLo and Behold: The Internet of Herzog
Histories, prophecies, and Reveries of the Connected World. by Erik Henriksen “ANY SUFFICIENTLY ADVANCED technology is indistinguishable from magic,” Arthur C. Clarke wrote in 1973. Four decades...
View ArticleThings to Do Music
Noteworthy shows for the week of August 17-23. by Mercury Music Staff WEDNESDAY 8/17COCO COLUMBIA, SAMA DAMS, MOOREA MASA (Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) Read our review of Coco Columbia’s When the Birds...
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