A Fancy Pinot Noir Dinner (with Less Pinot)
by MJ Skegg You could be having dinner here.The International Pinot Noir Celebration is now in its 30th year and has established itself as the event for lovers of Pinot. It’s spendy for sure, but then...
View ArticleYour Guide to This Year's PDX Pop Now! Festival
by Emma Burke GLENN ALLEN HENRICKSONPDX POP NOW!'S 2016lineup gives us all a lot of reasons to be stoked. As usual, Portland’s premier all-ages festival is treating the audience to a handful of...
View ArticleTimbers v. LA Galaxy Match Preview
by Abe Asher Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland TimbersJust six days removed from their biggest win of the season against the Seattle Sounders, the Portland Timbers are back in action with another marquee...
View ArticleMost Of City Council Now Supports A Massive Homeless Shelter at NW Portland's...
by Dirk VanderHart The Bureau of Environmental Services put its 14.5-acre Terminal 1 property up for sale nearly a month ago. And due to the strictures of the city's surplus property process, it'll...
View ArticleThe First-Ever Commercial for a Cannabis Edible Was Made in Portland
by Ned Lannamann This new commercial for Mirth Provisions' brand of cannabis beverages—which slyly bear the name "Legal"—is being touted as the world's first-ever TV commercial for a weed edible. Is...
View ArticleGalore of Dumbshits
by Anonymous I'd say you got a whooping cough because you're touching the bottom of your shoe then with the same hand wiping the saliva off your mouth dumbshit. Yes I'm carrying a pizza box. When you...
View ArticleLet me finish Dumbshit
by Anonymous It sure takes a special dumbshit to sit at the front of the bus on the sideway seats and then constantly look at the back of the bus at the other dumbshits. What do you see dumbshit? Has...
View ArticleTonight at the Hollywood: Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk, and Fight Club 2
by Ned Lannamann Fight Club 2 Written by Chuck Palahniuk, art by Cameron StewartFight Club was never a movie you wanted to grow old with. Not that it hasn’t aged well since it came out in 1999—David...
View ArticleHomeless Advocates Will Set Up an "Economic Refugee Camp" For People...
by Dirk VanderHart Ree Kaarhus, executive director of Boots on the Ground PDXDirk VanderHartOrganizations advocating for homeless people on the Springwater Corridor say they'll establish an "economic...
View ArticleSmart as Shit
by Anonymous Damn. Your smart as shit! I'm in line at the grocery store and I have 2 fucking things to buy. 2! I have my cash out and everything and I get behind you, the shortest line with the...
View ArticleLook at your keys!
by Anonymous What is it with everyone in this city and their fucking key rings?! Look at my keys on a ring on a clip on my hip. On my hip? Ah... Hipsters! Fucking A!!! Got it. Thanks shaggy.[ Comment...
View ArticleBorchers Injured, Timbers Lose 2-1 to LA
by Abe Asher Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland TimbersUpon arrival at Providence Park before the Timbers' marquee meeting with the Los Angeles Galaxy on Saturday afternoon, Nat Borchers' delivered a...
View ArticleBernie and What He Knew
by Anonymous I guess many supporters of Bernie Sanders tried to show and tell why he wanted DWS removed. I am sorry he did not get very far, but his supporters are going to have plenty to...
View ArticleOld 80s Rocker Houseless Guy on Glisan
by Anonymous You were strutting down the sidewalk about two days ago singing Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" out loud with a dont give a fuck attitude. Thanks for making my day. At first I thought you...
View ArticleThings To Do This Week!
Things to do for Jul 25-28. by Bobby Roberts It's not too often that a 100% bonafide legitimate goddamned national treasure comes rolling through town. Sure, it happens every now and again, but even...
View ArticleGood Morning, News: Homeless Refugee Camp in PDX, Democratic Chair Resigns in...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! I like the way you look at me, I like the time we spend baby, I like what we have grown to be, I like it girl, don't you know I like it. LET'S GO TO...
View ArticleThe Absolutely Fabulous Movie Is Totally Worth Your Time (Once It Gets to...
by Wm. Steven Humphrey If you loved and/or liked the classic British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, please keep reading to see if you’d like Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie. If you’ve never heard of the...
View ArticleBurger Week 2016: IT’S (ALMOST) HERE.
And here are all the burgers you’re going to cram into your face! by Mercury Staff SORRY, COWS. We knew this was coming. And yet: We did nothing to stop it.Indeed, those of us at the Portland Mercury...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Not Another DTMFA?!? Yes! Another DTMFA!
by Dan Savage Thirty-two-year old, married straight male. I have a problem that I don't know how to deal with. I'm an alcoholic, and my wife is too. We met 5 years ago at the beach. I had never drank...
View ArticlePDX Pop Now! 2016 Roundup
by Emma Burke Old Grape God at PDX Pop Now!Emma BurkeSure, there’s plenty to gripe about when it comes to all-ages festivals—having to drink beer in a cage, losing all feeling in your toes after the...
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