Dear Leader Trump
by Anonymous The average Trump supporter is in complete lock-step with their dear leader. He's said, and admitted to, many things that a moral person might find despicable. Not the average Trump...
View ArticleMy Inbox is Full!
by Anonymous I like sending myself emails throughout the day. It's nice to log in and see the highlighted number in my inbox. I'll sit for a moment before clicking on the email and imagine that it is...
View ArticleSad Pantry
by Anonymous There's a certain convenience store that I can never step foot in ever again. I had been going there for years, but sometime a year or so ago, a new clerk appeared. She was genuinely...
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Things to Do This Weekend!
Things to do for Nov 4-6 by Mercury Staff Even if Wordstock wasn't setting up shop downtown, this busy weekend would be a little more on the literary side of things (although there's plenty of...
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Good Morning, News: Portland's Gang List, Daria and Gustav, and the St....
by Doug Brown Good morning, Portland. Got some of those links for ya!ICYMI: Louis CK's endorsed Hillary Clintonwhile on Conan O'Brien's show:The Oregonian was in a public records fight with the city...
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ALERT! Mad Max: Fury Road: Black & Chrome Edition Opens in Portland Today
by Erik Henriksen Well this is weird/unexpected/excellent news: Looks like Mad Max: Fury Road Black & Chrome Edition is blasting into a few theaters this weekend—including Portland's Fox Tower...
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This Weekend's Style Events
by Elizabeth Mollo Primitive FormsStart your Christmas (holy fuck—it's less than two months away) shopping early with Pop Up Shop PDX, a temporary pop up market opened for the months of November and...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: WOES Gets It, JABBER Doesn't Get It (But...
by Dan Savage Always nice to hear back from the original LW...I've been giving your advice a lot of thought over the last week and it has already been fruitful. I think the two fold solution of just...
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Cinema Project: "Maybe the Model That We’ve Done for These Past 13 Years Just...
by Robert Ham Experimental cinema is a passion project. There’s little hope of the dreamlike narratives of Maya Deren, or the dizzying color experiments of Stan Brakhage, or the haunting...
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This Sunday: The "Make America Nice Again" Voting Party
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey If you've discovered your faith in humankind swirling down the toilet lately, here's a good opportunity to rescue it: It's the "Make America Nice Again" voting party this...
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North Dakota's Top Oil Lobbyist Says He Feels Marginalized and Silenced by...
by Sydney Brownstone Oil lobbyists have feelings, too. Photographee.eu/ShutterstockI just came across this two-month-old piece on the ongoing #NoDAPL fight from North Dakota's top oil lobbyist. Too...
View ArticleQueen Ruthless
by Anonymous I've known you to be a kind of militant bus driver. Keep to your rules and enforce them. Everyone behind the yellow line. No one rides a day late with their old monthly pass. Keeping to...
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Death: An Oral History Prepares You for the Inevitable
by Morgan Troper Pulp/Zest BooksNothing proves human consciousness is an evolutionary blunder more effectively than our innate fear of death. It’s inescapable and feels totally fucking useless...
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Tone Roads: Classical Music Roundup for November
by Robert Ham Calidore String Quartet Jeffrey FasanoHerein lies a new edition of Tone Roads, a column by Robert Ham, a regular contributor to the Mercury, highlighting the most interesting classical...
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Saying Goodbye to the Old Know
by Ciara Dolan THE KNOW The Shivas. 2016.Christopher Garcia ValleDON’T PANIC—the future is bright for the Know. News had broken over the summer that the Northeast Portland punk venue would be closing...
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Things to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff Lit Crawl Portland A boozy jaunt to literary parties all throughout downtown's bars and other nontraditional venues for readings, including stops at Literary Arts, Powell's, Sentinel,...
View ArticleEnough With the Food Cart Burglaries Already!
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey We're open again after our cart got broken into last night! Won't stop us from making #DönerKebab Just cleaned up and we're ready again!! pic.twitter.com/kngyhpTGWX— PDX...
View ArticleHere's to You, Mrs. Robinson
by Anonymous I love the company of older women. By “older” I mean my generation. By “older” I mean you remember the Cold War and 4 TV channels. You remember that a big upgrade was from rotary to...
View ArticleRed Bug Sunset
by Anonymous To the woman in the little red VW Bug driving onto Marine Drive from the Columbia Edgewater Country Club driveway this evening: You are cute as hell. You didn't look like a member, but...
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WFTDA Champs: Day One Roller Derby Recap
by Kelley Gardiner Hoppin' and hittin'Kelley GardinerIt’s Friday in the Rose City, and we’re ready for roller derby! The Memorial Coliseum is crawling with people in sporty jackets with their own...
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