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Portland May Be Less Diverse than Salt Lake City
by Charles Mudede Though Portland is very white, and getting whiter, it is not all bad news for blacks.Atmosphere1/Shutterstock.comPortland may be the whitest big city in America, but unlike Seattle,...
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Hillary's Poll Numbers Are Improving (But There's No Improving the Electoral...
by Dan Savage Hillary Clinton.Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.comSensible people everywhere spent the last week freaking out about the election. Donald Trump was closing the gap to Hillary Clinton in the...
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Things To Do Tonight 9/22
by Mercury Staff Northwest Hesh Fest: Day 1 Believe it or not, our trip around the sun has already brought us to another Northwest Hesh Fest. The first night features local kingpins Red Fang three...
View ArticleDon't Be the Trump of Portland
by Anonymous This one goes out to everyone still clinging to a hardcore "locals only" exclusivity dogma. I moved to Portland just over six months ago, and I didn't come because my job moved me or...
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Protest Today at KGW Following Insensitive Interview About Sexual Assault...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey From the now deleted KGW interview with Joel MagidDoug BrownIn case you missed it, local news station KGW conducted an insensitive (and journalistically questionable) interview...
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Things to Do This Weekend!
Things to do for Sept 23-25 by Mercury Staff If you're looking to set that mind free this weekend, you got plenty of options on just how you wanna do it. There's a Hesh Fest going on if you're looking...
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Scout Forages for New Terrain as Inner Southeast's 11th Brewery
by Brian Yaeger Scout Beer now openBrian YaegerReflecting on the number of breweries operating in Inner Southeast brings to mind a bit by Emo Philips titled “Most States” where the spasmodic comedian...
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Good Morning, News: Yahoo Hacked! Contempt In Oregon Standoff Trial? And...
by Erik Henriksen YAHOO HACK This is how it happened!YAHOO HACK: The personal data of half a billion Yahoo users was compromised in 2014, the company admitted, adding that the culprit was likely "a...
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Remembering the Man Behind Phantasm
by Edmund Stone This Saturday, September 24, the Hollywood Theatre is screening the classic horror film Phantasm. Unfortunately, I won’t be in Portland that evening, though I wish so much I could...
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Timbers v. Houston Match Preview
by Abe Asher Troy Taormina-USA TODAY SportsWith Jack Jewsbury's announcement on Sunday that this will be his last MLS season, the rest of 2016 has taken on a more urgent and immediate importance for a...
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Where to Watch the First Presidential Debate in Portland
by Mercury Staff There are multiple reasons for you to seek out the first Presidential Debate as opposed to, say, spending the night buried under thirty blankets like a small child hoping the monster...
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Things to Eat & Drink This Weekend!
by Bri Brey Fall is for Ramen: Organic Ramen Pop-Up Series Umi Organic and Broth Bar team up for a first-come-first-served fall pop-up series, pairing bone broths by Salt Fire & Time's Tressa...
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Seven Samurai > The Magnificent Seven > The Magnificent Seven: 2016 Edition
by Erik Henriksen Elmer Bernstein's rousing theme for 1960’s The Magnificent Seven doesn’t turn up in the The Magnificent Seven: 2016 Edition until the end credits. But when it finally starts playing,...
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Things to Laugh At This Weekend!
by Bri Brey Faizon Love One of the funniest "those guys" you never knew you knew, better known from his appearances in films like Elf and Made, and most famously as Big Worm in Friday. Sept 22-24,...
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Things To Do Tonight 9/23
by Mercury Staff Beavis and Butt-Head Do America Before Idiocracy and Silicon Valley, Mike Judge blessed us with a different fable about our fine nation: Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, in which the...
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PANIC AGAIN! Louis C.K. Has Added an Additional Show in Portland!
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Remember when I got you to PANIC!! about Louis C.K. coming to town for two shows and how you should get tickets immediately? And you waited too long and FAILED? Now it's time...
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Kristen Schaal is Stumping for Hillary Clinton in Portland
by Megan Burbank Must be phase two of OPERATION WIN OVER THE YOUTHS.David Shankbone via Wikimedia CommonsShe'll be at the Mission Theater in Northwest tomorrow from 3-4 pm in an event Clinton campaign...
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Mariners Suspend Catcher Steve Clevenger Without Pay for Black Lives Matter...
by Heidi Groover Seattle Mariners catcher Steve Clevenger is suspended for the rest of the season without pay.Alens/ShutterstockSeattle Times:The Mariners have suspended catcher Steve Clevenger...
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This Weekend's Style Events + News
by Elizabeth Mollo Have you always wanted to get an in-person, inside scoop on what makes some of Portland’s most beloved designers tick? Look no further than Meet the Designers: A Portland Fashion...
View ArticleSky High Prices
by Anonymous Your prices went up $2 for all your meal selections. That's from $5.50 to $7.25. Really? Why? You have every right to do it, I suppose. I have every right to not buy your food. I'm too...
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