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Yes, Portland Has a Biennial Art Exhibition. Here's What You Need to Know.
by Megan Burbank Curator Michelle Grabner made 107 studio visits with local artists in preparation for Portland2016.Get an art history professor talking, and they’ll almost certainly start telling...
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by Anonymous Do you work, live or go to school in a building built before lead pipes were outlawed? Then congratulations, it is likely you drink water with lead in it! It's unlikely the owners of...
View ArticleYou should stand up for those being bullied.
by Anonymous This won't change anyone's way of acting. This is a rant that I am writing because of all the people in the world that watch other people get bullied. So many of you hide behind the veil...
View ArticleI, Annoying Us
by Anonymous Howdy doo? I wish the 2, sometimes 3 rabble rousing commenters whom frequent this channel would just exchange their personal emails so that the rest of us didnt have to endure their...
View ArticleLemon Cat
by Anonymous At the recommendation of the massage therapist who tried to fix my neck and shoulder, and who has just got a kitten from you, I went to the animal shelter you run. There was a sweet,...
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Tin House’s Perfect Literary Summer Hangout is Here
by Joshua James Amberson Of all the events that make Portland summers ecstatic and overwhelming, Tin House’s outdoor reading series at Reed College—with its mix of casual ease and unrestrained...
View ArticleAudience In Chains
by Anonymous To the stink wrinkle that sat in row B, seat 6 D level Dress section of the Schnitz for the Alice in Chains concert on Wednesday: Perhaps you’ve never been to a concert. I was standing in...
View ArticleStripper with a heart of gold, wants your #
by Anonymous Andrew! You came into my work on this past rainy Saturday with your homie from New Mexico by way of LA. He was married and nervous, you were tall and handsome, buying me shots of Jameson....
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Things To Do This Week!
Things to do for Jul 11-14 by Bobby Roberts Just when you think things might be finally settling back into a normal routine (whatever the hell that might actually mean), along comes this week's worth...
View ArticleGood Morning, News: More #BlackLivesMatter Protests, Tim Duncan Retires, and...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! I think of the days when the sun used to set on my empty heart, all alone in my bed. LET'S GO TO PRESS.Around 100 cops and community members gathered at...
View ArticleThe Skinny on the Tiny House Conspiracy
by Anonymous WHy are they trying to push tiny houses on us so much? What if I want to eventually own a one story ranch style home on 1.7 acres with a double car garage? All those new skinny & tall...
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Alex Gibney Takes on Cyber Warfare with Zero Days
by Erik Henriksen "This was obviously the first, biggest, and most sophisticated example of a state or two states using a cyber weapon for offensive purposes," says New York Times national security...
View ArticleHello, FOR FUCKS SAKE.
by Anonymous I’ve lived in Portland for about 17 years. In that time, I moved for work to places like Texas and gasp, even California. Something has really stuck out in my time back in the Portland...
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Defense Strong Again in Timbers' 0-0 Draw With Red Bulls
by Abe Asher Brad Penner-USA TODAY SportsNat Borchers lets you know when his team has had a good day at the office. After Portland's win in Vancouver in the playoffs last year, he tetrissed with the...
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Down, But Not Out : Thorns vs FC Kansas City Recap
by Erin O'Regan Thorns regroup with a quick joke before the game begins.Photo Courtesy of Portland Thorns FC The Thorn’s 12 game winning streak was broken Saturday night when they fell to Kansas City...
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Tone Roads: Classical Music Roundup for July 2016
by Robert Ham Emerson String QuartetLisa MazzuccoToday on Blogtown, we introduce Tone Roads, a new column by Robert Ham, a regular contributor to the Mercury, highlighting the most interesting...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Can I Book a Session With My Friend The Sex...
by Dan Savage I'd appreciate your thoughts on a matter of sex worker etiquette and social boundaries. Someone I'd describe as an acquaintance/casual friend recently let me know that she is working as...
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Jay Som's Melina Duterte Can Shred
by Ciara Dolan JAY SOM Taking a deft architectural approach to songwriting.Marissa CarpenterVICTORY MOON. That’s the loose translation of Jay Som, San Francisco musician Melina Duterte’s baby name...
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Gay Republicans now Loathed Slightly Less by Their Colleagues
by Matt Baume Nice to see young women getting the respect they deserve from the GOP.Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com"Festering" is the word that the New York Times chose to describe the process of...
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A New Lawsuit Says Covered Water Reservoirs Will Poison Portlanders
by Dirk VanderHart As the city moved ever closer to shutting down its open air drinking water reservoirs in recent years, lots of opponents offered a steady refrain: They argued the shift to covered...
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