PICA Puts Down Roots
At this year’s Time-Based Art Festival, the stakes are higher. by Megan Burbank “THE STAKES ARE a lot higher in a space that we want to be able to welcome people into,” says Erin Boberg Doughton,...
View ArticleAugust Wilson, Guns, and Fractured Fairy Tales
Here are the Mercury’s fall theater picks! by Megan Burbank BACK TO SCHOOL? More like back to theater! For those of us who enjoy the under-appreciated art form, fall is that magical time when theater...
View ArticleMartha Grover’s Messy Lives
The End of My Career author is the voice of Portland right now. by Suzette Smith AS SOON AS Martha Grover opened her new book, The End of My Career, with a story about cleaning, I knew we were on the...
View ArticleBig Big Wednesday Is “A Beautiful Object”
The local literary journal looks to the future. by Joshua James Amberson OVER THE LAST few years, the annual local literary journal Big Big Wednesday has become for many in the literary arts community...
View ArticleWordstock’s Challenge: Too Many Readers
2,500 people were expected at last year’s festival. 8,500 showed up. Here’s how the organizers plan to meet the demand this time around. by Joshua James Amberson TWO YEARS AGO, Wordstock seemed to be...
View ArticleYour Guide to the Symphonic Season
There’s a lot more than Pokémon in the Oregon Symphony’s 2016/17 concerts. by Ned Lannamann IT’S EASY TO lament the prominence of “pops” in this year’s Oregon Symphony calendar—nights dedicated to...
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Good Morning, News: Bundy for the Defense, Trump Visits Mexico, and Chris...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! How you gonna act? How you gonna handle that? What you gonna do when she wants you back? LET'S GO TO PRESS.Congratulations, Central Eastside business...
View ArticleThings To Do Food
How to eat, drink, and be merry for the month of September by Mercury Staff Mount Angel Oktoberfest For four days out of the year, the town of Mount Angel essentially transforms itself into Little...
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Nick Fish: Portland's Housing Emergency Will Be Extended for One Year
by Dirk VanderHart The Hansen Building, former HQ of the Multnomah County Sheriff, is now Portland's largest homeless shelter.Multnomah CountyLast week, Portland City Council might have set a speed...
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Dude, Where's My Dispensary License?
by Josh Jardine WHEN THE Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) was tasked with handling Oregon’s adult use cannabis program—AKA the recreational weed sales that we have come to know and love—the...
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Can We Please Stop Talking About Anthony Weiner as if He Still Has a...
by Megan Burbank Anthony Weiner, in happier times.United States Congress via Wikimedia CommonsBecause he does not.This week, there's been a lot of media scrutiny leveled at beleaguered former...
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After Months of Outcry, Portland Will Force Delay to Some Old Building...
by Dirk VanderHart Matt SchumacherPotentially historic properties are about to get slightly harder to kill in Portland. After months of outcry over the speed at which old buildings can be demolished,...
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Father John Misty's Tangled Rhetoric
by Ciara Dolan MATTHEW BILLINGTONJOSH TILLMAN is King of the Trolls. After leaving Seattle mountain-monk band Fleet Foxes, Tillman moved to Los Angeles and underwent a grand transformation. In 2012 he...
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NPR Believes in Miracles
by Dan Savage This is some People-Magazine-level credulousness, NPR:Humanitarian work alone, however, is not sufficient for canonization in the Catholic Church. Normally, a candidate must be...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: My Girlfriend Lives With Her Ex-Boyfriend And...
by Dan Savage Here's my dilemma I need your help with: I started dating my girlfriend back in January 2016, things were going wonderfully until this weekend. She owns her house and rents out rooms to...
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Seance Crasher's Basement Behavior Reaches Back to '70s Classic Rock and...
by Ciara Dolan Patrick AdamsKEVIN RAFN has released four EPs as Seance Crasher over the past three years, but where his previous releases centered on subdued synth-pop, his debut full-length, Basement...
View ArticlePortland Police
by Anonymous This is to the asshole cop who drove through the middle of Holladay Park at 2:30 p.m. today going 35 mph... Fuck you. Thanks for laying on your horn for pedestrians that are lawfully...
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Right 2 Dream Too Will Push to Change the Zoning Code That's Blocking Its Move
by Dirk VanderHart Behind the "wall of doors" surrounding Right 2 Dream Too.Denis C. TheriaultHomeless rest area Right 2 Dream Too—suddenly barred from moving to Portland's Central Eastside—is trying...
View ArticleIt's Not Adding Up
by Anonymous With this so-called "Housing State of Emergency" that has caused the allowance of open homeless camps being extended, I'm having trouble understanding the end goal. According to the city,...
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