LEASH Your Fucking Dog
by Anonymous It's simple: your dog has to be on a leash in the Forest Park. All the time. No exceptions, including "under verbal control". I don't care if your dog just wants to "love on (me)". I...
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Things To Do Tonight 10/7
by Mercury Staff The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon Portland's annual celebration of all things slimy and tentacled, with special guests including John Shirley, Sean Branney, Cody...
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Wing Week 2016: Here Are the Wings!
It’s almost time for the Portland Mercury’s Wing Week! by Mercury Staff It's time. ICARUS WAS AN IDIOT.All Icarus had to do was escape the island of Crete. That’s it. And he even had help: Using wax...
View ArticleLet Sleeping Dogs Lie... Somewhere Else
by Anonymous It's like this: your dog napping in the middle of the sidewalk with its tail fully extended may look bucolic while you sip your latte outside your favorite coffee bar. But it's not a dog,...
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Ryley Walker Discusses His Inner Halfwit
by Ryan J. Prado RYLEY WALKER No Joe Perry. Tom SheehanCHICAGO GUITAR PHENOM Ryley Walker is amusingly complicated. Steeped in free jazz experimentalism and dream-folk whimsy, Walker’s work is a...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Thanks For the "Cure," Mom.
by Dan Savage Originally posted on March 19, 2014.When I was a teenager, my mother found some dirty stories I wrote on my computer. They were hardcore (bondage, slavery, whippings), and some featured...
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Portland’s “It’s Also a Bar” Culture Is Still King
by Thomas Ross QUARTERWORLDLindsey RickertOn the rare occasion that I travel outside Portland’s city limits, I’m always surprised that I can’t buy a beer at a movie theater. Can I really enjoy the...
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Is Pornography Use a Public Health Crisis?
Religious Conservatives Are Using Porn as a Sexy Scapegoat for Social Ills by David Kinder SCYTHER5/SHUTTERSTOCK.COMThe Washington State legislature has now joined a very select group of governmental...
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Things to Laugh at This Weekend
by Mercury Staff All Jane Comedy Festival: Maria Bamford, Jackie Kashian, The Curious Comedy All Stars The All Jane Comedy Festival and Curious Comedy present an evening of stand-up and storytelling...
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Despite Overwhelming Evidence, Trump Still Believes Central Park 5 Are Guilty
by Rich Smith Unfortunately, he's probably not the only one. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.comDonald Trump's birtherism isn't the only racist idea he holds against all reason. According to CNN, Trump...
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Things to Eat and Drink This Weekend
by Bri Brey 2016 Handmade Bike and Beer Festival The annual party paying tribute to two of Portland's favorite pastimes: Riding bikes and drinking beers. This year's family-friendly offering features...
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New Recording Surfaces of Donald Trump Bragging About Groping Women
by Megan Burbank *VOMIT EMOJI*Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia CommonsThe Washington Post just released a video of Donald Trump discussing women in impossibly disparaging terms, and it's damning. In the...
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Right 2 Dream Too Was Supposed to Leave Its Home By Today. It's Sticking Around
by Dirk VanderHart It's a bit ironic that today—exactly one year after City Council declared a housing emergency in Portland—was also the day when homeless rest area Right 2 Dream Too (R2DToo) was...
View ArticleBy a Hair
by Anonymous We'd see each other every day. That is, I'd notice you and you'd glance at me. I told you "I love your hair." See, I've always had a weakness for brunettes. You were gracious and said...
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This Week On Blogtown
by Bri Brey Everything you missed from Monday, October 3-Friday, October 7. TOP STORY: The Roseland TheaterANOTHER BELIEVER VIA WIKI COMMONSNOT OK: This week we received letters from both a concerned...
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Things To Do Tonight 10/8
by Mercury Staff Widmer Brothers Oktoberfest: X Ambassadors, Tango Alpha Tango, Quiet Type, The Lonesome BIllies, DJ Danny Merkury Follow the sound of flugelhorns! The annual Oktoberfest blowout in...
View ArticlePost-Feminism, My Ass
by Anonymous I have been in this city for two months and already loathe the racist misogyny, all wrapped up in whimsical white liberalism. Apparently, a few white liberal hipstertarians decided to...
View ArticleThe Day After Trump Takes Office
by Anonymous "My fellow Americans, I'd like to thank you for the support, and I hope we can set the turmoil of the election aside so that we may move forward to make America Great Again. That said, I...
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Things To Do Tonight 10/9
by Mercury Staff Presidential Debate #2 For someone who thinks so highly of himself, Donald Trump really had his orange ass handed to him in the first presidential debate with Hillary Clinton. But now...
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Things To Do This Week!
Things to do for October 10-13 by Mercury Staff People like to describe the city as "weird," which is pretty accurate most of the time, but when it comes to this week's worth of things to do,...
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