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Busy? Why, I'm simply frantic!WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22COMEDY—Helium welcomes verrrry funny all-gentlemen improv squad Whiskey Tango to their stage. Made up of some of Portland's top comedic talents (Gabe...
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We came to get down.WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29SEXY SCIENCE!—Sex sure seems like something louts do, with all that sweating and grunting and moaning. But even nerds do it. Because it's actually quite...
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Something for everyone: drag shows, film fests, and basketball games.WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5DRAG SHOW—Drag queens! Sequins! Wigs! Incredible dancing! Probably Beyoncé songs! If this is what battle looks...
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We choo-choo-choose you!WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12STORYTELLING—Here at the Mercury, we know about the horrors of dating—so why not make a night of listening to hilarious, butt-cringing stories from Wm....
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Now is the winter of our content.WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19MUSIC—If you love modern R&B of the "barn-burning" variety, check out Portland's dance-tastic Magic Mouth, who layer experimental textures...
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Is that a Busy Week, or are you just happy to see us?WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26READING—Last week, the Mercury ran an excerpt from IPRC Director Justin Hocking's great new memoir about surfing, obsession,...
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Truly, truly outrageous!WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5COMICS—Will Eisner was one of the most influential cartoonists ever to practice the form, and to honor his life and work, cities all over the world are...
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Spring has sprung... in your pants.WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12MUSIC—The only way the classic R&B sound of neo-soulman Nick Waterhouse would be more authentic is if you overlaid the noise of crackling...
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Of bears, droogs, wrestlers, and Shelley Long.WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19MUSIC—The multi-gendered members of Genders got shook up after hitting a deer on their last tour, but with nerves of steel, they're...
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This week is a laugh attack.WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26COMEDY—In between Hollywood gigs, Aziz Ansari keeps his stand-up muscles from atrophying with tours like the new Modern Romance, in which he dissects...
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It's raining men. And rain, it's also raining rain.WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2MUSIC—The harmony-drenched folk-rock of local trio Fanno Creek turns explosive in the live setting, and tonight's your last chance...
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Films and music and comedy... oh my!WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9MUSIC—Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny and the Skygreen Leopards' Donovana Quinn have unpacked their acoustic guitars to form New Bums,...
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Be queen of the neighborhood.WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16MUSIC—Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson loves music more than you. Hell, the hi-hat-battering luminary behind the Roots might very well love Portland more than...
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This week has a pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band... fronted by Macaulay Culkin!WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23COMEDY—If you only remember Norm Macdonald from his time behind SNL's Weekend Update desk,...
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¡Ay, caramba! ¡Eat our shorts!WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30PARTY JAMS—Is your liver too pink and healthy? Toughen up that wussed-out organ with Mean Jeans' hard-partyin' jams. Take a shot and move those feet, as...
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It's the funnest, funniest week of the year!WEDNESDAY, MAY 7MUSIC—Last year, the Monkees' Michael Nesmith rolled through town with a show that explored his weird, wild, wonderfully idiosyncratic solo...
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That week that dare not be bored.WEDNESDAY, MAY 14ANIMATION—Your average collection of animated shorts might be a little hit and miss, but the NW Animation Festival is a very well curated look at the...
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Good times.WEDNESDAY, MAY 21MUSIC—Brilliant, underappreciated in his time, and dead too young: Discovering the work of songwriter/cellist Arthur Russell is like stumbling onto a secret you can't...
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'Tis the season to BBQ.WEDNESDAY, MAY 28BOOKS—Elizabeth Warren, the liberal superstar and senior senator from Massachusetts, saw the financial meltdown coming before most people, but says her warnings...
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Stop, drop, and roll.WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4HELLO, SAILOR!—Last year Fleet Week was cancelled because the Republicans hate America and our military (AKA the not-so-great federal sequester of 2013). But this...
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