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 ArticleMarch 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 ArticleWomen'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 ArticleThings 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 ArticleYou 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 ArticleTess 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 ArticleDan 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"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 ArticleYou 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"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 ArticleComputer 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 ArticleTom 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 ArticleWarren 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 ArticleMeet 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 ArticleIn 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 ArticleIt’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 ArticleA 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 ArticlePortland 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 ArticleHall 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 ArticleI, 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...
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