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Why Seven Is the Perfect Number for a Social Media Trending Topic
by Ned Lannamann The popular “#first7jobs” trending hashtag/meme popped up around Twitter a couple weeks ago, with an expanded Facebook counterpart following suit. I didn’t post mine because it seemed...
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How to Eat, Drink, and Be Merry for Aug 20-28 by Mercury Staff 13th Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest You won't win the Zach's Shack Hot Dog Eating Contest. You won't even place. But you don't enter the...
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Let Us Welcome Our New Hillary Clinton Style Instagram Overlords
by Megan Burbank Hillary Clinton's white pantsuit at the Democratic National Convention: a sartorial nod to the Suffragettes?Ali Shaker/VOA via Wikimedia CommonsWhile I am generally not in favor of...
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Good Morning, News: Fires, Floods, and Profligate Sex Toy Waste
by Dirk VanderHart You guys remember that Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupier who was so mad that people had been sending dildos? His name is John Ritzheimer, and he pleaded guilty yesterday to...
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The Atlantic Digs Deeper into Portland Gentrification
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey From The AtlanticLast month when The Atlantic's Alana Semuels wrote her piece The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America, it caught the attention of a lot of...
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No More Wilmore: Comedy Central Cancels The Nightly Show
by Sean Nelson Larry Wilmore: Funny ha-ha, just not funny "in terms of multiplatform outlets and with shareable content and on social platforms."A year and a half after premiering as the Colbert...
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Anthropoid Is Admirable, But Hard To Recommend
by Ben Coleman Anthropoid is a fantastically paced, impeccably accurate historical thriller nestled inside a longer, less disciplined film. That central chunk of story, in which Czech special...
View ArticleRudy Giuliani Conveniently Forgets the Timing of 9/11
by Jennifer Campbell Video of Rudy saying we didn't "have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attacks in the U.S." before Obama: pic.twitter.com/3tC1InfZj0— andrew kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew)...
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Is Netflix's The Get Down Any Good?
by Ned Lannamann Netflix's late-summer dominance of TV culture continues after the huge success of their Stranger Things, when last Friday the ubiquitous streaming service debuted The Get Down. It's...
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And Now Here's the Story of How Donald Trump Tried to Crash Chelsea Clinton's...
by Jennifer Campbell "I'm supposed to be at that wedding, Doug. There's going to be short ribs."a katz / Shutterstock.comChelsea Clinton had a near miss at her 2010 wedding to Marc Mezvinsky,...
View ArticleGoing to the Oregon Coast This Weekend? Watch This Vintage Commercial First.
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey For those new to town and thinking you'll beat this weekend's coming heat wave, take a quick peek at this classic Henry Weinhard's beer commercial from 2001 (and saved for...
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Stream Turtlenecked's Pure Plush Bone Cage on Stereogum
by Ciara Dolan Sydney ChenHead over to Stereogum today to stream Pure Plush Bone Cage, the first full-length from Portland musician Harrison Smith's project Turtlenecked. Smith—who is, full...
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Clinton's Leadership Team Is Majority Women (Yes!) and House Republicans Want...
by Christopher Frizzelle "E-mail was not my primary means of communication," she has testified. "I did not have a computer on my desk." Nevertheless, House Republicans are dead set on never getting...
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Alley 33 Recap: Hot Fashion from the Summer's Hottest Runway Show
by Cassie Ridgway The Alley 33 Fashion event took place on a perfect summer day for a block party in the heart of SE Portland. Each year this show builds out a massive runway in an unassuming alley at...
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Abbey D'Agostino and Nikki Hamblin Embody Everything Good About Distance Running
by Megan Burbank Abbey D'Agostino helping Nikki Hamblin up after they both fell in the second heat of the women's 5000-meter run today.Screen shot via NBC OlympicsFor a number of dumb reasons not...
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Feds Arrest Man For Threatening to Kill a Portland-Based FBI Agent
by Doug Brown After months of repeated threats to kill FBI agents and internet posts that he might become "another" Timothy McVeigh or Osama Bin Laden, the FBI arrested a man who was found curled up...
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You Might Soon Be Able To Pay For Parking With Your Smart Phone
by Dirk VanderHart Portland City Council tomorrow is slated to consider a five-year, $1.5 million contract that would allow drivers in Portland to skip the (brief) visit to the city's green pay...
View ArticleShort-Staffed Cops Are Being Forced to Trim Specialty Units to Adequately...
Here’s where the cuts might be coming from. by Doug Brown How thin can the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) trim some of its specialized units? We will find out soon, as the bureau finalizes plans this...
View ArticleAsk a Pot Lawyer: Weed Fraud at a Portland Dispensary
Of weed, felons, and duped Canadians. by Vince Sliwoski TELL MEabout the weed fraud case!WEED, FELONS, forgeries, lawsuits, California swindlers, and duped Canadian backers—the weed fraud case had it...
View ArticleCannabuzz: Weed Reads
What to read before—and after—you get high. by Josh Jardine HELLO THERE! Do you enjoy reading? How about reading about cannabis? I ask because if you’re reading this column (or if it’s being read to...
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