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Born to Sing
by Jenni Moore XENIA RUBINOS She does a mean “Vision of Love.”CAMILO FUENTEALBAXENIA RUBINOS started singing basically when she started talking.“I guess it was a life dream to be a singer,” she tells...
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Meek to Chic
by Cameron Crowell PORCHES I’m seein’ double here!PALEY FAIRMANIN 2013, Porches released a beautiful record called Slow Dance in the Cosmos that assuredly fell in the indie-rock category. Since then,...
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City Council Just Voted to Save Downtown's Joyce Hotel. Here's Why That's...
by Dirk VanderHart The Joyce HotelMercury staffHere's one stark fact to consider about Portland's loss of housing affordability.Back in 2002, there were more than 1,000 "market-affordable" units...
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Skip That White Wedding
by Dan Savage Half of my extended family are white supremacists and one of them is getting married soon. I have learned it's pointless to initiate fights about their beliefs, but they tend to start...
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TBA Review: Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble's Stealthy Mindfulness and Toxic...
by Megan Burbank Yes, that's Elliot Rodger in the middle, embodying that reddest of red flags: Adult men who call women "girls," and can't say the word without a verbal sneer.PICA via FlickrIn 2014,...
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by Anonymous Hey Babe... I'm sorry, but not really excited, that your recently graduated from who-gives-a-fuck university in nowhere (Wisconsin/ Illinois/ Ohio or whatever) sister and her...
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The Mother of 15-Year-Old Fallon Smart Gave Wrenching Testimony Before City...
by Dirk VanderHart The death of 15-year-old Fallon Smart has recharged calls for road safety in Portland in the last month. Smart, an incoming Franklin High sophomore, was crossing SE Hawthorne near...
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Good Morning, News: Jay-Z, Bike Helmets, and My Little Pony
by Doug Brown Good morning, Portland. I'd really appreciate if you'd do me a kindness and click on these links.Check out this Jay-Zvideo op-ed on the War on Drugs in the New York Times:Out in print...
View ArticleIn Which We Revisit the Woods of the Blair Witch
And get sad because they're exactly the same. by Courtney Ferguson SURE, THERE WAS NOTHINGtechnically wrong with Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Psycho, but it sure did lack a certain something. The...
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed (In This Week's Letters to the Editor)
by Erik Henriksen ADAM WICKHAMRE: “East Portland Tenants Are Shaming Their Rent-Hiking Landlord In Front of His Neighbors” [Blogtown, Sept 8]. “East Portland tenants desperately trying to fight a...
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Last Chance: Get Your Tickets for the "Undisputable Geniuses of Comedy"...
by Mercury Staff The Portland Mercury and Revolution Hall presents... THE UNDISPUTABLE GENIUSES OF COMEDY!Guys! Tickets are going super fast for the Portland comedy show of the year, The Undisputable...
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Feasting on Beer—Portland Brewers at This Year's Feast Festival
by Brian Yaeger Park Kitchen's Boilermaker Sundae with Breakside Smoked Porter at Feast SmokedFeast Portland is a food festival. (It’s chiefly about chefs and relatively regarding restaurants, but...
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How Three Grown-Ass Men’s Anthems About Boners Informed My Adolescence
by Bri Brey BLINK-182 Pictured: three grown-ass men.Willie Toledo“DO YOU like Blink-182?”The answer to this question demands another question. Are you asking 10-year-old me, or current me? Either way,...
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Police Say Three Children Were Pepper Sprayed, Called a Racial Epithet
by Dirk VanderHart The block where the assault occurred. Google Street ViewA black Portland family says they were accosted in Northeast Portland this week by a cyclist who used a racial slur as he...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: He Wears Short Shorts
by Dan Savage ATENTTION : I READ YOUR ARTICLES ONCE IN AWHILE .... MAYBE YOU CAN ANSWER MINE .... IM A STRAIGHT MAN AND WILL ALWAYS BE STRAGHT .... I BEEN SHAVING MY LEGS FOR A YEAR IN A HALF NOW .......
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One Trump Child Lies, Another Jokes About Gas Chambers, and Did You Hear...
by Christopher Frizzelle I'm worried about the future of human civilization.Debby Wong / Shutterstock.comAnother day, another vile thing coming out of a Trump's mouth—this time from Trump's son,...
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This Week's Film Events, Including Confirmation, Thrashin', and Space Jammin'!
by Mercury Staff Adult Swim Drive-InThe skewed-and-touched, screwed-and-chopped comedy mad scientists at Adult Swim are taking their demented brand of entertainment on the road, with clips from...
View ArticleThings to Oktoberfest This Weekend!
by Mercury Staff Mount Angel OktoberfestFor four days out of the year, the town of Mount Angel essentially transforms itself into Little Germany, full of lederhosen, tuba music, sausages, and an...
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TBA Review: Unpacking “Otherness” in Carlos Motta’s Deseos / رغبات
by Noah Dunham From DeseosWhen it comes to TBA—and art in general—I find that one can measure the resonance of an artistic work by the amount of questions it leaves you with. That’s not to say...
View ArticleClinton Counterfactual From '08 Disproved by Clinton Nomination In '16
by Dan Savage I'm old enough to remember the first two years of Barack Obama's presidency.Believe it or not, way back in '09 and '10, a lot of liberals and progressives were frustrated with Obama. Our...
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