The Dictator is a 90-minute-long MTV Movie Awards sketch. by Vince Mancini THE "RUNNING OF THE JEW" scene in Borat is 100 times funnier than anything in The D

The Experimental Film Festival aims to jumpstart Portland's experimental film scene. by Matt Stangel NOT TOO LONG AGO, say Hannah Piper Burns and Ben Popp—two of the organiz

True stories of the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival. by Jamie S. Rich GAY ACTIVIST Vito Russo's earliest organizing efforts involved getting his community together to

Ramona Falls' Brent Knopf on going rogue and getting real. by Ryan J. Prado SOMETIMES IT'S FUTILE to accurately mine the inspirations, new territories, and conscious directio

One Way to Hail a Cab by Anonymous Dear intoxicated guy who tried to get in my car: I'm really sorry for almost causing you bodily harm. I pulled up to the red light and saw y

Photos from Open Season. by Marjorie Skinner Last Saturday, May 12, Sandbox Studio lit up for Open Season, the Mercury's eighth annual spring showcase of Portland

In which we hit it and quit it. The Avengers Vengeance is a dish best serv

Imago's The Black Lizard is stylish but uneven. by Alison Hallett IMAGO'S PRODUCTION of The Black Lizard has three things going for it: a slinky leading lady

Peter Carey's The Chemistry of Tears. by THOMAS ROSS IN ROBOTICS there is something called the "uncanny valley." The idea is that as a robot starts to resemble a human

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Telltale Games' The Walking Dead is tonally perfect—and even better than the TV show. by Earnest "Nex" Cavalli THERE ARE many reasons for me to recommend Telltale G

Two whole hours Thursday, May 24! Auditions in Dallas and New

Have you ever found yourself so excited about a topic that you couldn’t fit everything you wanted to say about it into a mere 400 words, let alone a single blog post? If so, then that’s the perfect time to consider taking that one idea and turning it into a series of blog posts. Creating a blog [...]

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Criterion will release The Royal Tenenbaums ($40) on Blu-Ray on August 14, 2012. Synopsis: Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife, Etheline (Anjelica Huston) had three children—Chas, Margot, and Richie—and then they separated. Chas (Ben Stiller) started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an al

Looks like we’re in for another beautiful weekend. Good thing too, lots to do. Note: Admission is free for the following events, but you might be charged for activities or food and drink. Events are sorted by start time. If I missed anything, please leave a comment. All weekend Tualatin River Bird Festival: Live bird

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Last weekend, Mrs.5000 and I got our act together and renewed our membership in the Portland Art Museum.  We briefly poked our noses into the South Asian collection, because it's hard to pass up Lord Ganesh on a giant mouse.

So I went to an osteopath on monday and had him look at my shoulder. He had another round of xrays taken of the offending shoulder, and, yes, the poor thing is pretty severely separated (the CC ligaments that my normal doctor and the ER people said were just damaged are “just damaged” to the point where I t

"He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. The difference is partly one of time, he would explain. Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the

Outside of Nicolas Batum questions and point guard dreams, the next most popular line of questioning lately deals wit

This is where the collision happened.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) The Portland Police Bureau have just released information about a very serious collision that happened downtown less than one hour ago. It occurred at the intersection of SW 3rd and Madison. Police say it appears that the woman was riding her bike eastbo

MAP 2.2 2012/05/16 21:23:55 44.556 -117.380 5.7 25 km ( 15 mi) NNW of Huntington, OR

My first poem in a VERY LONG TIME:  You yearn to pick the rose that grows behind the bulletproof glass. I watch with the melancholic laugh, as a garden flourishes behind you. Kaleidoscope blankets of flora wait at your back, but will you notice before summer has

Here’s the scoop for the weekend. For more ideas on what to do this weekend, check out the kid-friendly event listings at PDX Kids Calendar and the urbanMamas calendar page. The Tualatin River Bird Festival begins this Friday and continues...

From our sponsors at Helium: Dan Cummins @ Helium Comedy Club SE Ninth & Hawthorne Thursday, May 17 @ 8 p.m. (SOLD OUT) Friday, May 18 @ 7 & 9:30 p.m. Live Taping Saturday, May 19 @ 7 & 9:30 p.m. Live Taping Tickets are $20-$25 For tickets and more information, please visit www.heliumcomedy.com/portland or [...]

A screed against the worst aspects of the culture goes off the rails, but not without raising some real issues.

It's an election year, and the folks at the Oregon Humane Society welcome Pug Nation during the annual Pug Crawl.

When it comes to marriage, money is often the most fought over topic. Depending on your personality and your spouse’s personality, there are a number of ways that you can avoid money conflict during marriage. Here are some of them. To start with, you have to figure out what kind of spenders each of you [...]

Clatsop County resident Janice Robertson may well be a very nice - if ignorant - person, and doubtless had nothing but good intentions when she petitioned the Clatsop County commissioners to ban "elephants and other exotic animals in circuses and...

Continuing on our journey up the California coast we stopped in Santa Barbara. I love the Spanish style architecture that is so prominent in Central and Southern California. A vintage water taxi... I like the signage and awning of this...

In 2011, NYPD Made More Stops Of Young Black Men Than The Total Number Of Young Black Men In New York: clubjac

Our source of the other day was right about David Sarasohn being out, but wrong about his successor. It was a fun rumor, though.

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With our recent trip and the hoopla of yesterday's election, we've managed to neglect mentioning that the folks suing the City of Portland over misuse of water and sewer revenues lost a round in court last week. The judge threw out one

The giveaway coincides with National Bike to Work Day, and marks the official grand opening of the bagel company's 13 Portland locations.

Your daily dose of Trail Blazers links, including the latest from Greg Oden's agent on his desire to play again

Your daily dose of Trail Blazers links, including the latest from Greg Oden's agent on his desire to play again

The main interview topics: Who they like as a coaching candidate; the candidates' history of transactions; communication style; ability to integrate basketball and business; and the ability to fit with Paul Allen.

The main interview topics: Who they like as a coaching candidate; the candidates' history of transactions; communication style; ability to integrate basketball and business; and the ability to fit with Paul Allen.

arcaneimages: Jack Webb rehearsing the Dragnet radio show. 

“I can’t think of any more human activity than conducting science experiments. Think about it — what do kids do? … They’re turning over rocks, they’re plucking petals off a rose — they’re exploring their environment through experimentation… We explore our environment more than we are compelled to utter poe

religiousragings: Life’s big questions are tough.  But the fact that some people are douches is simp

Barky's been editing Presidential biographies at the White House site, and has so far managed to insert himself into every one of them from Coolidge on (save Ford) Not sure why he omitted Ford, who among other things, once launched...

The top three compete on "American Idol," "Suburgatory" and "Criminal Minds" wrap up their seasons, and "Revenge" is more revenge-y than ever.