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Ted Wheeler on His First Week As Portland's Mayor
by Doug Brown Portland Mayor Ted WheelerDoug BrownMayor Ted Wheeler is wrapping up his first week on the job, and it's been a busy one. Portland's new leader gave a short press conference this...
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by Anonymous I was driving home tonight and stopped at a red light. The moon was bright in the night sky and I thought to myself, "I don't really think we could have put man on the moon AND brought...
View ArticleZupan's Belmont
by Anonymous Are you really closing Zupan's Belmont? I asked the woman in your beer department why there wasn't any beer on the shelves and she said it's a slow time for beer distribution. Um, what? I...
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The Hollywood Theatre's Month of Insurgent Cinema
by Erik Henriksen Where's the line? When a reality TV villain wins the presidency, and news reads like dystopian science fiction, the line between fiction and reality gets blurry. And when—and if—we...
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Keep the Fires Berning in 2017
by Suzette Smith In 2001, over the holidays, I received six copies of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation. They came mostly from friends of my parents—people I had never received a present from before...
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Things to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff Hidden Figures Before Hidden Figures, I had no idea three black women were integral to the success of America’s space program. That’s not the only surprise here: Even the film’s title...
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by Anonymous You periodically reengage, but after I overeagerly respond (always a fool for you) you inevitably stop responding. Until the next time, and I always hang on your every word. Like I said,...
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Things to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff Journey to Space Remember in Gravity when George Clooney was sent spiraling to a certain, lonely death in the vastness of space? And then in The Martian when Matt Damon was saved from...
View ArticleVeterans Administration
by Anonymous I read a story in the local news about a Veteran Affairs clinical social worker charged with telling superiors one of her patients was going to kill her. Imagine, she put this person's...
View ArticleUtter Disbelief
by Anonymous Amazing how some atheists can be as aggressive and righteous as religious zealots. So, someone shoved religion down your throat, and now you get to shove atheism down mine? There IS a...
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Things to Do This Week
Things to do for January 9-12 by Mercury Staff After a star-studded weekend, Portland's got a Stellar gift waiting for you at the end of this week courtesy the hilarious and luminous Bri Pruett, and...
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Blazers Recap: Blazers Lose a Thriller to Detroit in Double OT, 125-124
by Arthur Bradford "Well, it was a heck of game," said coach Stotts at the post game press conference, shaking his head. He was right about that. The lead changed 14 times over the course of the...
View ArticleFrail & Overprotective Portland School District
by Anonymous Dear Portland Schools,Do you really need to close school down every time its mildly cold outside. This is called winter and schools across the nation are open today everywhere else and...
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Silence: Martin Scorsese's Meditation on the Nature of Faith
by Ned Lannamann God bless Martin Scorsese... although Christians probably still have a bone to pick with him. Nearly three decades after his ambitious, misunderstood The Last Temptation of Christ,...
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La La Land Sweeps, Donald Glover's Atlanta Is Triumphant at the 2017 Golden...
by Jennifer Campbell La La Land, a musical about two crazy kids struggling to make it in Hollywood, won a record-breaking seven awards at last night's Golden Globes—including best musical or comedy...
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Can Portlandia Be Funny In the Age of Trump?
by Charles Mudede What's so funny about loving bikes and trying to save the planet?IFCSeason 7 of Portlandia premiered Thursday on IFC. The comedy show, which stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein,...
View ArticleDear Most Ridiculous Public School District,
by Anonymous I have 2 school age kids and I work from home —meaning I make real money from doing a specific group of tasks I do remotely with occasional client meetings. I don't live in my parents'...
View ArticleChuck Schumer's Copy Editing Skills Just Burned Mitch McConnell
by Ned Lannamann Mitch McConnell is one eager beaver. With a Republican majority installed in Congress and an unstable—but Republican!—demagogue about to take over the Oval Office, McConnell is...
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Today, in Things Donald Trump Is Wrong About
by Megan Burbank istock / mattjeacockHere are just a few things the incoming Bait-Taker in Chief has been incorrect about, failed to fact-check, or just straight-up lied about in recent days:• The...
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Snooper Boyfriend Keeps Snooping Through...
by Dan Savage Kind of in a pickle. Straight white male, in a cis relationship, and I am thinking that maybe my GF is cheating on me, but I have no caught-in-the-act solid proof. We've been together...
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