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50 Great NW Indie Rock Albums That Weren't On Pitchfork's List of the 50 Best...
by Sean Nelson and Dave Segal She remains amazing.Earlier this week, Pitchfork published its list of The 50 Best Indie Rock Albums of the Pacific Northwest, the latest in their excellent series of...
View ArticleThe Store Ignore
by Anonymous Do you ever notice in the grocery store how most of the clerks, stockers, and employees ignore you? You can walk by, maybe look a little lost, maybe have the appearance of looking for...
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by Anonymous I just gotta know what is the deal with cars zooming around in mall parking lots, fast food drive thrus, parking garages, etc. Seriously people. You people are fucked up. You people are...
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East Portland Tenants Are Shaming Their Rent-Hiking Landlord In Front of His...
by Dirk VanderHart Portland Tenants UnitedEast Portland tenants desperately trying to fight a looming 45 percent rent increase took a novel tack earlier this week: Shaming their landlord in his own...
View ArticleToday in Portland Daredevilry: Skiing the Burnside Bridge Stairs
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey GUYS! It's not easy being a skiier during Portland summers. That's probably why this creative Portland daredevil (known as freedthestreets) decided to hone his skills on the...
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Ted Wheeler and Steve Novick Ask to Be Removed from "Harbor of Hope" Website
by Dirk VanderHart Both Mayor-elect Ted Wheeler and City Commissioner Steve Novick have asked that their names and photos be scrubbed from a list of "supporters" of a proposed homeless campus at...
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Oregon's Proposed Corporate Tax Hike Is Polling Very Well—But Will That Last?
by Dirk VanderHart Oregonians love the idea of taxing big corporations. At least for now. Less than two months from election day, polling [PDF] released this afternoon by Portland firm DHM Research...
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Good Morning, News: Landlord Shaming, Bad News for Big Corporations, and...
by Dirk VanderHart Portland Tenants UnitedICYMI: A group of East Portland tenants has taken the fight to head off a massive rent increase to a novel place: Their landlord's neighborhood. The Ash...
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Things To Do This Weekend!
Things to do for Sept 9-11 by Mercury Staff Portland might have had a sleepy Labor Day weekend, but for the next three days our well-rested city is basically dedicated to doing all of the things at...
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This Weekend's Style Events
by Elizabeth Mollo The end-of-season sales are starting up, and this weekend is kicking off the first one in a huge way. The Biggest Warehouse Sale Extravaganza offers up to 90% off end of season...
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Happy Anniversary to the Dearly Departed Sega Dreamcast
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey WikipediaI'll admit I'm not a huge video game person, because BUSY SCHEDULE. However, there was one great game system love of my life, and it was the Sega Dreamcast—which if it...
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Timbers v. Real Salt Lake Match Preview
by Abe Asher Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland TimbersThe Portland Timbers' game on Saturday night at Providence Park against Real Salt Lake will be hugely significant in the Western Conference playoff...
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"It's Crazy"—Pacific Northwest College of Art Suspends a Master's Program,...
by Jen Graves What's going on in there?Photo courtesy of Another BelieverI've been meaning to post this for a few days and keep waiting until I have time to follow with some reporting of my own. But I...
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Deaths Of Homeless People Shot Way Up in Multnomah County Last Year
by Dirk VanderHart Adam WickhamEighty-eight people died while homeless in Multnomah County last year. That's 32 more than the year before, and the total of 2013 and 2014 combined. And it's yet another...
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Tone Roads: Classical Music Roundup for September 2016
by Robert Ham Renée FlemingHerein lies a new edition of Tone Roads, a column by Robert Ham, a regular contributor to the Mercury, highlighting the most interesting classical events happening in the...
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TBA is Here! Here's What You Need to Know.
by Megan Burbank NarcissisterPICA“The stakes are a lot higher in a space that we want to be able to welcome people into,” says Erin Boberg Doughton, performing arts program director for the Portland...
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Two Government Agencies Are Making Cannabis Events Difficult
by Josh Jardine ronitphoto.comREGULAR READERS of this column—and Jah bless all six of you—know that when I’m not sitting in my estate in the West Hills dictating this column to a bank of interns, I...
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"Democracy Is the Theory That the Common People Know What They Want and...
by Marc Mohan So there's this competition-style reality show on. It’s the one that pits the bloviating, orange-haired pustule who spouts incoherent, racist free verse against a grandparent with the...
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Get Excited for Ben Wheatley's Free Fire
by Erik Henriksen Here at Mercury HQ, we like British director Ben Wheatley. A lot. "The small odd moments soon begin to mount," Andrew Wright wrote of Kill List, "creating an atmosphere that makes...
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