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Russell Courtier, The White Supremacist Accused of Killing Larnell Bruce,...
by Doug Brown Russell Courtier is accused of running down and killing Larnell Bruce in August. He was just indicted for a 2015 assaultLevi HastingsRussell Courtier—the 38-year-old member of the...
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Let's Give Thanks for Threesomes!
by Dan Savage A few weeks ago, my live-in boyfriend (let's call him James) sat down next to me after a particularly stressful week of grad school and said "I have a hard question. A former sex partner...
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How to Get Through Thanksgiving at Your Right-Wing Family's House
by Ansel Herz Levi HastingsIf you hang with your right-wing family this Thanksgiving, you're likely to hear and experience tacit or outright racism. You're going to hear praise for the misogynist in...
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Moana Review: Need Hope for the Next Generation? Look No Further.
by Jenni Moore If you need hope for the next generation, look no further than Disney’s latest. Somewhere on a South Pacific island where natural elements have literal spirits, Moana (voiced by Auli’i...
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Bad Santa 2 Review: Hey, At Least It's Better Than Love Actually
by Ned Lannamann A Christmas movie doesn’t have to be that good to make it into the yearly holiday rotation. (Cases in point: Elf. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Love Actually. Don’t @ me.) So...
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by Anonymous To the white dude, day before Thanksgiving, biking through Rose Quarter and up Williams: You are a fucking sexist. It was sexist to patronizingly tell me "just wait a few seconds" when I...
View ArticleIt's Not A VIP Club, You Asshole!
by Anonymous I was the open-minded Catholic dude who wrote about you back in February being the Evangelical street preacher who was preaching to none other than yourself at Pioneer Square as people...
View ArticleI Am Thankful That DB Cooper Fans Are Idiots!
by Anonymous Let me be clear on one thing. I've always have had a fascination with the DB Cooper case ever since I first read about him in high school that since then, I've been trying to write a...
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Good Morning, News: Bad Cops, Canadian Baseball, and Ann Coulter, Probably
by Dirk VanderHart Hope you're drying out—metaphorically and physically—from a drenched Thanksgiving, y'all. While you were avoiding the subject of our incoming president over a bird, a bunch of your...
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Things to Do This Weekend!
Things to Do for November 25-27 by Mercury Staff Black Friday doesn't have to be the soul-demolishing corporate thresher you fling yourself into headfirst. It doesn't. This weekend is proof the day...
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Behold the Portland Mercury's Unparalleled Coverage of Gilmore Girls
by Erik Henriksen Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life finally hits Netflix TODAY, and our Gilmore-obsessed office could not be more stoked. You're damn right we wrote about it!"Meet Me in Stars Hollow:...
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I Took the World’s Greatest Flirt on Her First Weed Journey
by David Schmader David SchmaderIT WAS THE DAY after the day a racist sexual predator was elected president. White nationalists were rejoicing, attacks on minorities were spiking, and Leonard Cohen...
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The Eagle Huntress Review: The Prettiest Movie Since, IDK, Lord of the Rings?
by Suzette Smith The Eagle Huntress looks amazing. The documentary’s images—featuring a grinning 13-year-old Aisholpan Nurgaiv as she holds a splendid eagle half her size—are the stuff of myths. I...
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On Welcome to the Graveyard, Castle Lets in a Sliver of Light
by Ben Salmon COURTESY CASTLE/VÁN RECORDSCASTLE Not pictured: Nathan Fillion. FOR THREE ALBUMS, Castle chose to cloak itself in darkness. The California heavy metal trio’s 2011 debut, In Witch Order,...
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Photos & Video: Protesters Shut Down Pearl District Block and Pass Out Food...
by Doug Brown Portland cops tried unsuccessfully to get people to move from the intersection. Protesters handed out food and clothes to the houselessDoug BrownDozens of Portlanders shut down a block...
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Star Trek: The Animated Series Is the Perfect Saturday Morning Cartoon
by Erik Henriksen via TrekCoreLast week, Star Trek: The Animated Series came out on Blu-ray—available, for the first time, in a standalone Blu-ray collection, as part of the franchise's 50th...
View ArticleTake a Quick Pee?
by Anonymous As a former canvasser and current food delivery person; let me tell you all of some of my "pee-scores".Yeah yeah, I state I gotta pee. More than 1/2 of you let me in. Once I'm in(and I...
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Blazer's Recap: Blazers Feast on Pelicans, 119-104
by Arthur Bradford It was Coach Stott's birthday and everyone in Blazersland wanted to give him a win. The Blazers had returned from a punishing east coast road trip during which they lost four out of...
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Things to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff The Dollop When the world is in turmoil, it can be soothing to look back at equally wackadoodle moments in history, if only to be reminded that this horror show isn’t new. But actual...
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Things to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff Thee Oh Sees, Alex Cameron, The Lavender Flu The latest record from space-vortex explorers Thee Oh Sees, An Odd Entrances, is a six-song counterpart to their recent A Weird Exits that...
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