Two Roommates Who Don't Pay Rent
by Anonymous I rescued two kittens last June and have regretted it ever since. At first, their cuteness was enough to overpower the stench of shit and urine that seems to constantly emanate from the...
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Things to Do This Weekend!
Things to do for December 9-11 by Mercury Staff Up until this point, if you were careful, you could probably duck a lot of the Christmas season's encroachment into most aspects of your life. But this...
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We Got High and Went to Cirque du Soleil's Avatar Ballet
by Erik Henriksen It seemed like a good idea at the time: Get high, fumble our way to some seats in the Moda Center, and watch people in blue unitards jump and dance and sing and pretend to be giant...
View ArticleMoshow's Newest Slow Jam Spreads Love for Cats (and Oregon Humane Society)
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey We've shouted out Moshow—Portland's most prolific and talented cat rapper—before, because he is just SO AWESOME. And now Moshow has a brand new joint to share titled "Adopt a...
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Good Morning, News: Surprise! You've Been Imprisoned in Ice! Also, Pensions
by Dirk VanderHart Good morning, friends. Once again, the Mercury's august leadership elected to hold our holiday party on a Thursday, meaning—triumphant karaoke rendition of Bob Seger's "Fire Lake"...
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The Eighth Fast and the Furious Is Titled The Fate of the Furious and Now I...
by Erik Henriksen From the bloated, festering, maggot-shitting corpse that is 2016, something good and pure and beautiful has, at last, wriggled free and burst forth: It is the title of the eighth...
View ArticleWin Tickets to Spartacus in 70mm!
by Erik Henriksen This weekend, the Hollywood Theatre is showing two classics on 70mm: Disney's Sleeping Beauty and Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus! And it's your lucky day (maybe), because I've got a...
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Revisiting the Work of Pylon, America’s Best Rock Band
by Robert Ham THE PYLON REENACTMENT SOCIETY Revisiting the work of America’s best rock ’n’ roll band.Curtis Knapp BACK IN 1987, when R.E.M. were reaching a commercial breakthrough with their fifth...
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Free Self-Defense Classes at Bridgetown Aikido
Free self-defense classes for teens and adults by Heather Arndt Anderson Courtesy Bridgetown AikidoHey, shit's getting scary out there for pretty much everyone who's not a straight, cisgendered white...
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After Recent Deaths, Activists Plan to Shut Down Two Lanes of SE Division on...
by Dirk VanderHart Bike Loud PDXIt was a brutal week on Southeast Division. Actually, it was a brutal Wednesday on Southeast Division. In the span of a few hours on the night of December 7, two people...
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The Past Clashes with the Present in Aquarius
by Ciara Dolan Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s gorgeous Aquarius centers on Clara (Sônia Braga), a 65-year-old retired music critic, breast cancer survivor, and wealthy widow who refuses to...
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This Weekend's Style Events
by Elizabeth Mollo I'm still hungover AS FUCK right now, thanks to the epic karaoke holiday party thrown by the Portland Mercury, so I am going to keep this short and sweet:Elizabeth Rohloff...
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Things to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff Party Boyz: December to Forget The one good thing about this miserable time of year is: parties galore. And tonight the podcasters/impresarios of Party Boyz celebrate winter cheer...
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Things to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff Big Daddy Kane, Vursatyl, Grand Royale Big Daddy Kane stepped back from the spotlight many years back, but his shadow of influence still looms large over the many scenes of today’s...
View ArticleLack of Success Equals Right-wing Views
by Anonymous What is it with washed up actors becoming crazy Republicans? Examples: Susan Oleson (Cindy Brady): She just got fired from her radio show after expressing her bigoted views. Also, she's a...
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Things to Do This Week!
Things to do for December 12-15 by Mercury Staff After the jubilation of this weekend (and the snow day or two preceding) this busy week ahead is a careful blend of partying and politicking, with some...
View ArticleGood Morning, News: Russia Helped Trump Get Elected... and Other Newsy Stuff
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! On New Year's Eve at 12 o'clock we'll stop to kiss, and while the whole world will be whistle-blowin', we will still be mistle-toein'. LET'S GO TO...
View ArticleWatch: Steve Novick Spars With a Fox News Host Over His New Wealth Inequality...
by Dirk VanderHart As we've already seen, Commissioner Steve Novick is cool with right-leaning news outlets bashing his newly passed surtax on corporations that pay their CEOs at least 100 times the...
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See Seattle Filmmaker Clyde Petersen's Torrey Pines Tonight with a Live Score
by Joshua James Amberson Over the past 15 years, Seattle artist Clyde Petersen has built up a unique catalog of creations. Perhaps best known for his ever-evolving pop band Your Heart Breaks, Petersen...
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The Walking Dead Recap: And Now We Fight (for Apples)! RAH! RAH! RAH!
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Good morning, Walking Dead fans! Did you happen to catch last night's mid-season finale that was intended to PUMP YOU UP for taking on Trump in 2017? (That was probably not the...
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