Savage Love Letter of the Day: We Will Never Get Closure On CLOSURE
by Dan Savage Hi, Dan! Love the Slog. I've been reading for years. So much insightful content in there. And one of the things I love is that you will post rebuttals and counter-points to your SLLOTD....
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PDXtreme Film Fest Is Therapy for Your Existential Dread
by Courtney Ferguson How's everyone doing out there? I don’t know about y’all, but I feel a little numb. A little dead inside. A little lost. And when I get that feeling, I like to turn to the...
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Trump Gives No Meaningful Indication that He Will Avoid Conflicts of Interest...
by Rich Smith Trump would have to give up his castles to run the country in a technically ethical way.Eric Urquhart / shutterstock.comAnother morning, another dribble of vague tweets from the...
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Michael Chabon’s Moonglow: Actually, Moving to the Moon Sounds Pretty Good...
by Erik Henriksen People we love came before us, and people we love will come after us, each enduring their own failures and apocalypses, each finding love and peace when and where they can.BENJAMIN...
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Haste's Jasmine Wood Lets Her Guitar Do the Talking
by Ciara Dolan HASTE Armed with a delay pedal and a guitar.SHANNON WOLF ON POLAROID FILM 2016MANY RECORDS pay tribute to lost loves and departed friends, but Portland shoegaze three-piece Haste’s...
View ArticleHouse Mouse
by Anonymous I work in a building where a whack job says she saw a mouse. Shes not a whack job by its definition, but she is someone that definitely starts problems. This whacko doesnt even work...
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Portland's Paying $90K to a Teen Police Beat, Arrested in 2014
by Dirk VanderHart It's purely coincidence, but worth noting nonetheless: The same day the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) took the very rare step of proactively releasing police reports surrounding a...
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Things to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff The Thesis 2 Year Anniversary Since its inception nearly two years ago, the Thesis has dramatically transformed the landscape of Portland music. Every month the hip-hop concert series...
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Win Two Tickets to See "The Siren Theater's Best Christmas Ever!"
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Hey guys! Now more than ever you need A GOOD LAUGH, am I right? Then here's your opportunity to see a super funny show I'm in called The Siren Theater's Best Christmas Ever! As...
View ArticleHillary's Popularity Vote Lead
by Anonymous Thank gawd the US is a republic and we have the electoral college system. It protects us against mob rule. Majorities can be oppressive. 51% of the pop should not have boundless control...
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First Impressions of Final Fantasy XV (Without Any Spoilers) (But With a Lot...
by Morgan Troper Samantha SutcliffeIt took slightly longer to build Rome than develop Final Fantasy XV. The game was first unveiled over a decade ago, as a spinoff that was then titled Final Fantasy...
View ArticleManchester by the Sea and the Saddest Handyman
Casey Affleck is very sad. by Marc Mohan THE HISTORY of American men on screen is the history of repressed emotion. From Marlon Brando’s animalistic slow boil to Cary Grant’s Teflon-coated...
View ArticleTech Time
by Anonymous Good God. the amount of time people spend on technology. on their devices, whatever it is, hours and hours of the day, all this useless, mindless information. selecting which device is...
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Good Morning, News: Polluted National Guard Armories, A Revenge Porn...
by Doug Brown Good morning, Portland. These links should be clicked. Neil PerryIf you aren't, at least, morally opposed to police beatings, maybe you'll be against them for financial reasons:In a...
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Things to Do This Weekend!
Things to do for December 2-4 by Mercury Staff Welcome to December. It is not playing around. December's pretty goddamned serious about providing as much holiday cheer as possible, in as many...
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Trump Supporters Panic; File Lawsuit to Stop Recount
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey "The election was rigged! Which is why we must stop this recount!"iStock/scarletsailsIn a story that will quite likely shock the crap directly into your pants, Trump supporters...
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BJ Smith on Top Chef Tryouts and His Secret Weapon
by Andrea Damewood Top Chef went 11 seasons before it cast any chef from Portland—and then gave us a two-fer with Departure's Gregory Gourdet and Doug Adams, then of Imperial and of the upcoming...
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The Portland Office that Handles Pot and Neighborhood Associations Might Soon...
by Dirk VanderHart If Portland officials approve a bold new system for financing city elections in coming weeks, it's not going to be housed anywhere near city elections staff. Instead, the Mercury...
View ArticleTo the Person Who Ran Over My Cat Last Night
by Anonymous Hey, first off, I'm not here to yell at you. I'm not %100 sure what happened, but I do know that you stopped, picked him up, and drove him across town to the emergency vet during rush...
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What To Watch Tonight: An "Emergency Healing Screening" of Leonard Cohen's...
by Ned Lannamann The news of Leonard Cohen’s death came like a cruel punchline, karma’s final dig following the horrors of America’s 2016 election. Despite the timing, Cohen was never a generational...
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