This Week in the Mercury
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Events It's Happening Tonight!
Posted by Alison Hallett on Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:29 PM
OVER AND OVER—In case you didn't hear, Looping State of Mind, the latest album from Swedish ambient techno artist the Field, is seriously good. The subtlety of the Field's earlier songs is still there but invigorated by unexpected genre crossovers. I predict a dance floor catharsis. WE
w/Miracles Club, Operative, DJ Genevieve D; Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison, 8:30 pm, $10-12
SEX TALK—Sex-advice columnist Dan Savage is only one of the many proponents of Christopher Ryan's Sex at Dawn, a book that takes aim at all our deeply cherished beliefs about sex—including a deconstruction of the rapidly crumbling modern construct that is monogamy. AH
Lecture and Q&A, Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne, 7 pm, $20
Most Commented on Blogtown, PDX
-
Gloaters Gonna Gloat by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey
-
Scenes from the the No on Fluoride Party. Which Is Winning by Denis C. Theriault
-
Do Spoilers Really Matter? The Relative Importance of Storytelling in Film by Bobby Roberts
-
"Tin-Foil Hat Parade," at City Hall Tonight, Celebrates Fluoride Defeat by Denis C. Theriault
-
I Don't Think Superman Actually Eats Like This by Bobby Roberts
-
Hey, Slackers! Your New Arts Tax Deadline is Monday, June 10 by Denis C. Theriault
-
The Pope Doesn't Understand the Point of Atheists by Paul Constant
-
Scientology's Shiny New Church/Giftshop by Alex Falcone
-
Union Way by Marjorie Skinner
-
Portlanders Are Being Sued for Stealing a Terrible Movie by Dirk VanderHart
Our Friends
- UrbanHonking
- Culture Shock
- Portland Roundball Society
- Steph Cassano
- Cort and Fatboy
- Street Roots
- Powell's Books Blog
- Portland Transport
- Portland Afoot
- Bike Portland
- Eater: PDX
- Portland Food and Drink
- Mr. Movie
- Sunday Softball
- BlueOregon
- Sightline Institute
- Ultra: Arts Portland
- Bitch Magazine
- Blazer's Edge
- Reading Local: Portland
- Portland Food Carts
- Stumptown Vegans
Our Enemies
RSSGoing to Seattle?
