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Good Morning, News: Bike Share Map Unveiled, a Massive Homeless Shelter...
by Dirk VanderHart We've finally got a launch date for Portland's long-awaited bike share system. Biketown launches July 19. Here's a bunch of info about station locations and pricing. Check out the...
View ArticleMust Watch: Samantha Bee on the Orlando Massacre, Gun Control, and Terrible...
by Wm.â„¢ Steven Humphrey On last night's Full Frontal, host Samantha Bee let loose with a brilliant, barn-burning rant on the Orlando Massacre, the idiocy of not criminalizing automatic weapons,...
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Why Maggie's Plan Is Better Than So Many Other Relationship Comedies
by Vince Mancini It feels unfair to compare a movie that's as undeniably good as Maggie's Plan to lesser contemporaries, but it's hard not to see it as a corrective to so many other failed...
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Required Reading: Being Queer and Muslim in America
by Sydney Brownstone A view from the ground at the vigil outside New York City's Stonewall Inn on Monday evening.SBThe Village Voice’s Raillan Brooks (who, full disclosure, is a close friend) on the...
View ArticleThe Orlando Shooter Might Have Been a Twisted Closet Case
by Dan Savage What he said:The self-loathing-gay and ISIS-inspired-jihadist theories of this attack are not mutually exclusive.— Josh Barro (@jbarro) June 14, 2016A person can be a violently...
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Today's the Day that Decides Bernie's Next Move
by Matt Baume Wait, has Bernie been a secret Conehead this whole time?Sheila Fitzgerald / Shutterstock.comSome failed presidential candidates fade mercifully away, like Michele Bachmann. Others...
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Radiohead Have a Big Treat for Fans at Record Stores Worldwide June 17
by Dave Segal The special rich-person version of A Moon Shaped Pool, which contains 32 pages of artwork, two LPs, two CDs, MP3s or WAVs, and a Thom Yorke eyelash.On June 17—the day their ninth album,...
View ArticleThings To Do Tonight!
by Bobby Roberts Battles, Chanti Darling, MáscarasFor dollar value, those Red Bull Sound Select shows are tough to beat. Tonight's installment brings the mathy experimentalism of New York's Battles...
View ArticleCentral Intelligence: The Rock Is America's Sweetheart
Central Intelligence: The Rock Is America’s Sweetheart by Erik Henriksen "OH YEAH, I'm big into 'corns," says Bob Stone (Dwayne Johnson), who's wearing a t-shirt with a unicorn on it and is delighted...
View ArticleI, Anonymous
The Ascot Artiste I'VE NEVER MET a more untalented person, yet you have the ego of a renowned artist. Only in a town like Portland would mediocrity be celebrated. A mutual friend of ours invited me to...
View ArticleEverything as Fuck: Unbridled, Unafraid
The LGBT Community Taught Me to Know Myself by Ian Karmel What is there to say at this point? About guns, fear, homophobia, and Islamophobia? It feels hopeless, I feel helpless—and it didn't even...
View ArticleThe Waiting Room: Fried Chicken, Oysters, and Bubbly
Stick to the basics at this restaurant and you'll be happy. by Andrea Damewood IRECENTLY SAW this Portland post in my feed: "Is there anyone who isn't doing fried chicken?"It's true, there seems to be...
View ArticleWhere to Find the Best Sparkling Wine for the Buck
It's time to get your sparkle on. by MJ Skegg WHILE WINEMAKERS in Champagne are renowned for their sparkling wines, they're even better at something else: branding. The word "champagne" is synonymous...
View ArticleMonkey Business
How a Forest Grove man indicted for smuggling endangered animal parts helped bust his Malaysian suppliers. by Doug Brown THE TWO YOUNG Malaysian businessmen had traveled long hours for what was...
View ArticleDoes Anyone Know What Cleaning Up Portland's Toxic Harbor Will Cost?
The EPA just revised its estimates, and even those might be wrong. by Dirk VanderHart THERE AREN'T a great many instances where a $746 million price tag looks like a bargain. But last week, when the...
View ArticleHall Monitor: ALERT!
Surprise! Commercial property types want to duck a tax for housing. by Dirk VanderHart THE EMAIL went out this past Monday, and had the word "ALERT" bolded at the top. The city's commercial real...
View ArticleMary Roach Is Your Buddy in the Bar Bathroom of Science
She explores the popular science of war in Grunt. by Ben Coleman I DECIDED to run a little experiment of my own while reading Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, Mary Roach's latest...
View ArticleSee What Emerges at Risk/Reward
The festival of new performance takes on identity and diaspora. by Suzette Smith "WEAUTOMATICALLY try to see patterns," says Jerry Tischleder, producing artistic director of the Risk/Reward Festival...
View ArticleStupid Kids' Blood and Guts in High School
John C. Russell's queer youth manifesto still resonates. by Megan Burbank OPENINGA LITTLE over a week before Sunday's horrific shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Stupid Kids, a...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor
"It looks like the Mercury has perked enough interest with their fascist reporting."MAXIN' AND VAXXIN'RE: "Why Is Portland's Cinema 21 Showing Vaxxed?" [Blogtown, June 8], Erik Henriksen's interview...
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