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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Why Is My Gay Son Hooking Up With a Girl?
by Dan Savage I just found out that my 16-year-old son, who's been out since age 11, was making out with a longtime female friend over the weekend and is now confused about it. As am I. I know he's...
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Stef Chura's New Record Messes Is a California Surf-Rock Update on ’90s...
by Suzette Smith STEF CHURA Fri 2/17 DisjectaZak BrattoStef Chura is kind of blowing up right now. Her debut full-length, Messes, just dropped at the end of January, and though it may seem like the...
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More Women Making Wine—and Other Exciting Things!
by MJ Skegg Tomorrow Cellar 503 has its own celebration of female winemakers (read the article here if you don't know what I'm on about). The tasting features 10 plus wines from Pam Walden of Willful...
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PUBLIC SCHOOL, SOCIAL DECAY! WASTED POTENTIAL. WHERE DOES TALENT HIDE WHEN...
by Elinor Jones ARE YOU A PUSSY? NO! FIST FIGHT TIME. FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! PUNCH! FIGHT! NO PUSSIES ALLOWED. OKAY? LET’S FUCK SOME SHIT UP!LAST DAY OF SCHOOL! TEACHER CHARLIE DAY = PUSSY. OKAY? WHITE...
View ArticleBob Odenkirk Doing Stephen Colbert Is Just What You Need Today
by Ned Lannamann Did you all see the thing on the TV today? Yeah. That. It was confusing, bizarre, surreal, and totally disconnected from truth, logic, science, and human values.Here's a thing that...
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Priced Out of Your Home? Today Might Be Your Last Day to Seek Relocation Money
by Dirk VanderHart The horror stories came fast and furious in the days before February 2, the date Portland City Council passed a new ordinance mandating that landlords offer relocation assistance to...
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The IPRC Needs A New Location—and A New Executive Director
by Suzette Smith After being threatened with a 300-percent rent increase, it seemed that things were looking up for Portland's Independent Publishing Resource Center. Now, though, it looks like the...
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Let's Talk About All the Lies Trump Told at His Press Conference Today
by Rich Smith Unhinged.Mario Tama Earlier this afternoon, Stranger emperor-editor Dan Savage published a Slog post with the headline The President Is Insane. If you didn't click on the little link he...
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A Crowd of Hundreds Marches to Demand Justice in Quanice Hayes Killing
by Dirk VanderHart Doug BrownHundreds of marchers are taking to the streets of downtown Portland this evening, to demand justice in the death of Quanice Hayes, the 17-year-old Portlander killed by a...
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by Anonymous You took it harder than I expected when I told you I would no longer be selling you my dirty panties. You asked why I "left" you...Honey, because I could. I had been waiting for my...
View ArticleI Wonder About the President
by Anonymous I am wondering which person will tell our President, maybe he needs to step aside. I guess Mike Pence would take over. If the elections were not valid maybe we will have another election....
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Things to Do This Weekend: Feb 17-19
by Mercury Staff Portland just keeps adding festivals to this list of Things to Do, don't it? Just as you're starting to get a handle on how best to incorporate all the wonderfulness on tap at the...
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Good Morning, News: The Quanice Hayes March, Porter vs. Stoudamire, and Chris...
by Doug Brown Good morning, Portland. Clear your schedule for the next 15 minutes and click these links. A friend of Quanice Hayes tears up at a makeshift memorial outside the Justice Center for the...
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Poll: Is White House Flat-Out Lying, or Purposefully Planting Fake News? You...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Win McNamee / GettyToday the AP broke the story that the Trump administration is considering mobilizing "as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized...
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Don't Worry, Dating's Hard for Everyone
by Dan Savage I'm a 34-year-old woman living in Portland and I'm fucking lonely and horny and not sure what to do to fix it. I've tried plenty of online dating sites and apps, but they haven't...
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Finally, a Sexy Polish Horror Mermaid Musical!
by Suzette Smith The Lure works on a few different levels. On one hand, it’s a sexy Polish horror musical about savage mermaid sisters trying to eat people. (Everybody who’s into that already has...
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Pickathon Starlight Series, Episode 5: Cass McCombs
by Ned Lannamann Tim LaBargeHere's the new episode of our ongoing Pickathon Starlight Series, with special performances from the 2016 Pickathon festival that took place on the Starlight Stage. Today's...
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Don't Miss the I, Anonymous Show... Monday Night!
by Mercury Staff America loves two things: freedom, and the Portland Mercury’s monthly I, Anonymous Show at the Secret Society! Now more than ever, America needs a place to post their furious rants...
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God of Hellfire Arthur Brown Continues to Deal in Shock and Awe
by Aris Hunter Wales THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN The God of Hellfire, now and forever.Barbara FgWHEN I WAS a teenager, my dad used to let me borrow his tapes to listen to on my bus rides to...
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Mayor Ted Wheeler Has Shot Down the Latest Plan to Move Right 2 Dream Too—And...
by Dirk VanderHart Updated with new comment from Mayor Ted Wheeler's office.Mayor Ted Wheeler has pulled the plug on the latest potential home for Right 2 Dream Too, once again leaving the respected...
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