Mrs. Congeniality Pukes in Mercury's Kitchen
      
      
      
      
      
        
        
          By AAN Staff
        
        
      
      
        september 30, 2002  01:26 pm
      
      
      
      
            
      
        
          
        
      
      
        
          Mrs. Portland Mercury contestant Bethany Miller filled her stomach with "colorful, smelly and chunky" food items, chased with ipecac, then visited The Mercury's office in time to hurl in the kitchenette. Her beef: the mocking tone the alt-weekly took about its own contest. "People were really mean, and they didn't
                                       encourage an atmosphere of fun,"  Miller tells Willamette Week. [Illustration by Carson Ellis.]