Reviewing the Year in Weed
by Josh Jardine ISTOCK / GASPR13As we wrap up 2016—a year that, for many, has been filled with a distressing degree of loss, fear, and historical division—let’s take a look back at these past 12...
View ArticleMayor-Elect Ted Wheeler Will Hand Out Bureau Assignments, Then Snatch Them Back
by Dirk VanderHart Doug BrownPortland's four city commissioners will know what city bureaus they've been tapped to oversee under Mayor Ted Wheeler on January 3. Then they'll have three months to prove...
View ArticleI Dispense As Well
by Anonymous How could it go wrong? Selling legal weed to willing buyers? After passing ID's back and forth three or four times (as required by law?), I'm predisposed to be pissed off already. It...
View ArticleThings to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff Re-run Theater: Holiday Special Double Feature The Hollywood celebrates not only the Christmas season, but five years of bringing the absolute best—and the cringiest—of television...
View ArticleSorry, Trump Voters. Women Are Already Punished for Having Abortions
by Megan Burbank Abortion is a common, low-risk medical procedure. We live in a country committed to ignoring this basic fact.Joel Carillet / iStockYesterday was a shitty day if you care about...
View ArticleTop Five Christmas Songs: Ned Lannamann's List
by Ned Lannamann A few of us Mercury staffers are sharing their top five Christmas songs on Blogtown this week. I'm going first, but as you'll see, my list is the only one that matters. Despite the...
View ArticleWm.™ Steven Humphrey's "Unfuckwithable Rules of the White Elephant Gift...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Our annual Mercury office "White Elephant Gift Exchange" is going down tomorrow, and you're not invited. HOWEVER! In the public's interest, here is my annual blog post, "Wm.™...
View ArticleVice Is Ditching Comments, Too. Santa Must Be Real After All!
by Sean Nelson Commentary and dissent really have merged to form DissentaryVice.com announced yesterday that it will join the growing number of websites (NPR.com, Reuters, Popular Science) that are...
View ArticlePortland's Going to Cease Corporate Investments—For Four Months Or So
by Dirk VanderHart The Portland City Council held the last meeting in its current form today. Its final decision? Ceasing investing city tax dollars in all corporate bonds. At least for a few months....
View ArticleGood Morning, News: Charlie Hales, Weed Delivery, and 911 Flaws
by Doug Brown Good morning, Portland. These links are begging to be clicked. Jeremy EatonOut in print yesterday, make sure to check out Dirk VanderHart's piece on outgoing Mayor Charlie Hales' legacy...
View ArticleRecap: Blazers Drop Another One, 96-95
by Aris Hunter Wales The last few days have been pretty rough in the Trail Blazer camp. Looking like the home squad has so far this season, a loss at the hands of the Warriors on Saturday wasn’t gonna...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Scenes From a Marriage
by Dan Savage I’ve been married forever (over 40 years) and am still sexually active. Our sex life has mostly consisted of oral sex—his choice. Personally, I prefer penetration, which we have for 30...
View ArticleWatch and Marvel at the Teamwork Behind an SNL Set Change
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Is it possible for Americans to ever again truly work together? Well, anything is possible, as you'll see from this unusually exciting behind-the-scenes sneaky peek of an SNL...
View ArticleTop Five Christmas Songs: Jenni Moore’s List
by Jenni Moore While I’m not a Christian Christmas-celebrator by any means (I’m just here for the Pagan rituals, retail therapy, and peanut butter blossoms), I have always been obsessed with the...
View ArticleThings to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff Cheer The Fuck Up: An OK Chorale Holiday Pop Songs Sing-Along It’s only three days until C-day, and you’re already sick of all the usual Christmas tunes. Tonight, Portland’s OK...
View ArticleThe 34 Moments in Film & TV That Helped Us Survive 2016
by Sean Nelson Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Mackenzie Davis in Black Mirror’s “San Junipero.”LAURIE SPARHAM/NETFLIX• The moment when, in Black Mirror's "San Junipero,""Heaven Is a Place on Earth" plays and...
View ArticleActivist Jessie Sponberg Wrote a Christmas Poem About Charlie Hales....
by Dirk VanderHart In this week's paper, we've got a retrospective on outgoing Mayor Charlie Hales'travails with the homelessness crisis that took root during his tenure. We talked to a boatload of...
View ArticleState Officials Are Investigating a Multnomah County Deputy Who Shouted...
by Dirk VanderHart While Mike Reese was waiting to be formally christened Multnomah County sheriff on November 8, one of his subordinates was pushing a very different candidate. As we reported at the...
View ArticleTrump's Transition Team is Going After the State Department's Gender Equality...
by Megan Burbank This is not normal.TriggerPhoto / iStockFirst they did it with Energy Department employees working on climate change, and now they're doing it with the State Department's programs to...
View ArticleI Bought Your Porn
by Anonymous I bought your indie porn before we went on a date. Like 6 months before I realized you were a real person. It was incredibly sexy and worth it. But then by some small fucking miracle we...
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