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Today's Hero of the Resistance: Woman Who Secretly Recorded GOP Conference
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Activists protest outside GOP retreat last week.Getty / Jessica KourkounisThe GOP is madder than a poodle in a pigpen over the currently unidentified hero of the resistance who...
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Today's Protest Schedule: Tuesday, January 31
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Doug BrownThere are two opportunities to protest and inspire, this afternoon and tonight (Tues Jan 31).Rally to Thank Senator WydenSenator Wyden's office, 911 NE 11th, 4-5...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Fishing For Sympathy
by Dan Savage My friend is a trans woman, 26, living in small town Georgia. She's been out for three years, got fired for it. She lives with her deeply religiou' family who are going out of their ways...
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10 Things You Can Do Tonight Instead of Watching Trump Announce his Supreme...
by Bri Brey 1. Go to a protest.2. Attend one of these local events. 3. Read this book. Or this book. OR ANY BOOK. 4. Write your sweetheart/neighbor/friends a Mercury valentine. 5. Smoke a joint and...
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The "President" Will Announce His Promised Roe v. Wade Overturner on TV...
by Megan Burbank A preview of tonight's announcement.istock / brasovianuDonald Trump, who lost the popular vote by 2,864,974 votes, has shown time and again during his first week in office that he...
View ArticleSavage Love
Advice Columnists Without Borders by Dan Savage I am a 26-year-oldheterosexual European man, I have been for four years in a monogamous relationship with my girlfriend. Recently she cheated on me.When...
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Things to Do Film: February 3-9
This week: Say Anything, Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, and the slow-motion delights of Ghost in the Shell. by Mercury Staff B-Movie Bingo: Traxx Your monthly opportunity to literally check off a bingo...
View ArticlePortland’s Pretty
A very good year for pretty. by Marissa Sullivan On what’s more or less my one-year anniversary of the Mercury allowing me to bring you Portland’s Pretty in print form, I’ve decided to bring it back...
View ArticleI, Anonymous
Attention Portlanders from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North...
View ArticleIt’s Happening Again, with 33 1/3’s Twin Peaks
If you like Angelo Badalamenti’s iconic score, you’ll like it! by Robert Ham FEW CURRENT DIRECTORS are better at deepening the impact of their visuals with the perfect song or bit of scoring than...
View ArticleSarah Manguso’s Book of Dread
300 Arguments you’ll either love or hate. by Joshua James Amberson OVER THE PAST decade, author Sarah Manguso has become known for her taut, strangely singular memoirs that balance emotional...
View ArticleIf You’ve Worked Ever Retail, Third Rail Has Your Number
The Flick captures a shifting film industry from small-town New England. by Megan Burbank MICHAEL J. FOX to Britney Spears: This is the format of the six-degrees-of-separation movie trivia game that...
View ArticleTrumped Towers
One more thing the new president’s throwing into chaos: Portland’s affordable housing market. by Dirk VanderHart IN A PORTLAND that’s rapidly pricing out its poorest residents, the orange and gray...
View ArticleFour Years of This Shit
Protests, punches, and arrests in Trump’s first days by Doug Brown IT'S BEEN a dizzying week and a half since Donald Trump was sworn in. It’s been chaotic in Portland, too, as the city and county try...
View ArticleHall Monitor: Cleaning the Baton
City Hall’s chaotic. Can Portland’s newest leaders change that? by Dirk VanderHart AFTER REPEAT outbursts at City Hall last week, I wrote online that Ted Wheeler’s honeymoon as mayor was over.Wheeler’s...
View ArticleMore Illumination, Please
Lantern is good, but not quite ready to lead the way. by Andrea Damewood TWO YOUNG MEN, seemingly on a very early date, sat near me on a recent visit to Lantern Lounge. Searching the menu, they...
View ArticleThis Week in Vaginas
A special memo from the new administration to world health organizations. by Courtenay Hameister MemorandumTo: Worldwide Health Organizations Receiving AidFrom: The US Department of Health and Human...
View ArticleLush Life
Of gruits, Otis Redding, and alternative facts. by Brian Yaeger To-may-to. To-maw-to.Fish. Ghoti (George Bernard Shaw’s alleged, alternate spelling).Trump will Make America Great Again. Trump...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor
“‘FUCK YOU!’ is my first response.” OLD MAN YELLS AT COLUMNRE: “To the Distinguished Elder Gentlemen of Portland” [I, Anonymous, Jan 18]. “What is it with the 60-year-old men in this city?” asked...
View ArticleIs Your Band Sexist, or Are Womxn Just Annoying?
Is your band name sexist? Let’s find out! by Kim Selling From Black Pussy to WOMB RIPPERSampling the Varietals of Sexist Band NamesThe following list includes bands populated by cis men, and, for your...
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