Quantcast
Channel: Portland Mercury
Browsing all 9554 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

A Quick List of Prominent Conservatives Who Have Spoken Out Against Neo-Nazis...

by Bobby Roberts On November 21st, the Atlanticposted a video of neo-Nazi members of the National Policy Institute sieg heiling as "alt-right" figurehead Richard B. Spencer gave a speech questioning...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

March of Nope: Mayor Hales Cancels "Hope" March Because of Counter Protesters

by Doug Brown Click the picture for the Facebook event pagePortland's ResistanceMayor Charlie Hales axed his planned "March of Hope" event scheduled this afternoon after the recently-formed group...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Women's Colleges to Homophobic, Racist Trump Surrogates: Come At Us, Bros

by Megan Burbank Colleges like Wellesley teach women to be as entitled and mouthy as mediocre white men. Steve Bannon is right to fear them.Photo by Jared and Corin / CC BY 2.0Steve Bannon has a new...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Things to Do Tonight!

by Mercury Staff Seu Jorge In Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Brazilian musician Seu Jorge played Pelé dos Santos, Team Zissou’s safety expert and nautical balladeer. Throughout the...

View Article

You Will Enjoy Jody Rosen's Epic Twitter Rant on Bullshit "Urban Elites vs....

by Dan Savage 1/Wow hack pundits will thunder clichés RE “urban elites,”“identity politics,”& Salt of the Earth “middle Americans”‘til the end of days.— Jody Rosen (@jodyrosen) November 21,...

View Article


Tess Rafferty: "We Live In Grab-Em-By-The-Pussy America Now"

by Dan Savage Aftermath November 2016 from Steve Cohen on Vimeo.Watch.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Dan Savage's Holiday Special Comes to Portland!

by Mercury Staff One of America's favorite listening pleasures, the Savage Lovecast returns to Revolution Hall for a special live taping of Dan Savage's popular sex, relationship, and advice podcast!...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

"Professor Watchlist" Calls on Students to Expose Professors Who Promote...

by Rich Smith "DO MY HOMEWORK?! I beg your pardon, sir, but Donald Trump didn't do his homework before the debates, and look where it got him." dotshock / shutterstock.comToday in proto-Fascistic...

View Article


You Don't Know About Industry, So Quit Acting

by Anonymous In light of the whole "Trump thing," seems a lot of focus is being placed on race and gender. That's fair, I'm not going to contribute to that collection of topics. HOWEVER, I would like...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

"We Needed to Put Portland on Notice": ACLU Says Protestor Arrests Might Be...

by Dirk VanderHart Gregory McKelvey speaks to demonstrators Tuesday afternoon. Kathryn Stevens is holding the umbrella.Doug BrownThe ACLU of Oregon says it's exploring legal options, after what it...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Computer Scientists and Election Lawyers Are Privately Lobbying Hillary...

by Jen Graves Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.comOkay, look. He has 290 electoral votes, she has 232. Six "faithless" electors have declared themselves. If they follow through, he gets 284.Michigan, which...

View Article

Tom Ford Returns with Nocturnal Animals

And he brought some sad white rich people! by Marc Mohan NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, fashion-designer-turned-director Tom Ford’s second film (and his first since 2009’s A Single Man) looks great, and the story...

View Article

Warren Beatty's Rules Don’t Apply Is Kind of a Mess...

... but you won’t mind. by Ned Lannamann TV MAY GET all the shine nowadays, but old-fashioned movie-star charisma goes a long way. Case in point: Warren Beatty, who’s returned to movies after a...

View Article


Meet Me in Stars Hollow

My mom, Gilmore Girls, and me. by Ciara Dolan EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT, we’d repeat the same ritual: I’d scoop myself a big bowl of ice cream, settle into my dad’s ugly green couch, and wait for the phone...

View Article

In Praise of TV’s Smart Girls

Rory Gilmore and our hope for the future. by Megan Burbank SMART GIRLS ARE everywhere on TV now, but they weren’t in the early ’00s, when conventionally beautiful American “teens,” the audiovisual...

View Article


It’s Not Too Late to Watch Gilmore Girls!

Notes on Gilmore Girls, from a Gilmore woman. by Bri Brey AS AN ONLY CHILD, I missed out on some of the seminal television trends that would’ve been introduced by an older sibling. No Dawson’s Creek,...

View Article

A Controversial Portland Cop Improperly Spied on Her Former Stepdaughter

That should have been grounds for firing. It wasn’t. by Doug Brown In May, Rachael Winterling made a quick weekend trip from Corvallis, where she was a student at Oregon State University, to her...

View Article


Portland Cops Have Issues With Their New Crime Reporting Software

That should surprise no one. by Dirk VanderHart IN CLARK COUNTY, Washington, it became known as the “RegJIN effect.”Sheriff’s deputies just north of the Columbia River had been told for years to...

View Article

Hall Monitor—Eudaly Visits the Precinct

Portland’s newest commissioner is making some bold plays. Can she keep it up? by Dirk VanderHart WHEN A TRIO of well-known Portland organizers were arrested Monday evening—accused of encouraging a...

View Article

I, Anonymous

Society: Not doomed after all? by Anonymous AS I RAKED LEAVES from the patio of the restaurant where I work, a man I can only describe as an “average white male” decided to shout something lewd about...

View Article
Browsing all 9554 articles
Browse latest View live


<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>