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Timbers Undone By Surging Sounders in Seattle
by Abe Asher Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland TimbersWhen the Portland Timbers' starting lineup was released one hour ahead of their crucial Sunday night tilt with the Seattle Sounders at CenturyLink...
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Good Morning, News: Protesting Traffic Deaths, Trumps Gonna Trump, and "Sorry...
by Megan Burbank A protest is scheduled for this Friday in response to the death of a teenage girl who was hit by a speeding car while crossing SE Hawthorne Friday. The victim has been identified as...
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Hubris, Cocaine, and the Bad Boys of War Dogs
by Ben Coleman LIKE BLACK LICORICE or the PT Cruiser, Jonah Hill is divisive. I have friends who can’t get enough of his potty-mouthed braggadocio, and others who only watch his movies on the off...
View ArticleIvanka Trump's Interns Share Tips on How To Survive Working For Free For...
by Jennifer Campbell How to make it work as an unpaid intern: https://t.co/pwMIYWh4kw#nomoneynoproblems#interntips#internshipspic.twitter.com/BRoWuO6bq7— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) August 18,...
View ArticleFuck You, Breeder
by Anonymous To the person who wrote the I, Anonymous entitled "Breeding the Future," let me say, Fuck You. Don't call all of us not having children "selfish and sad", just because we had the common...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Quick Hits
by Dan Savage I’m a big fan, faithful reader or your work, and subscriber to the Magnum Savage Lovecast. I listened to podcast 512, and wanted to write you regarding a specific caller. It was the...
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A New Bike/Pedestrian Bridge Is Coming to NW Portland—And Spurring Some Debate
by Dirk VanderHart Last year, the Mercury was among the first outlets to report the Portland Bureau of Transportation had a new bridge in mind: A pedestrian-and-bike-only span over I-405 at NW...
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Donald Trump Insists He's "Not Flip-Flopping" On How He Will Screw Over 11...
by Christopher Frizzelle But not to worry, Trump supporters. You still have on your side a 12-year-old running a campaign office in Colorado and a terrifying Christian woman who equates voting for...
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The Proposed Homeless Shelter at Terminal 1 Is Now Part of a Lawsuit
by Dirk VanderHart The fight over Terminal 1 has a new home: The courts. As promised, local attorney John DiLorenzo filed a fresh pleading today in an ongoing legal dispute over how the city spends...
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The Portland Man Accused of Murdering A Black Teenager Is Connected to A...
by Doug Brown Russell Courtier and his girlfriend Colleen Hunt were indicted for the murder of Larnell Bruce. Courtier has an "EK" tattoo, representing "European Kindred," an Oregon white supremacist...
View ArticleCraig's List - Update Your Listings!
by Anonymous You've for something for sale - great! Somebody buys it - great! Delete your listing- how hard is that? You forgot to delete your listing, and somebody wants to buy it? Send them an email...
View ArticleBlack Is the Old Black
by Anonymous I couldn't help but notice, during our 3-day heat wave last weekend, so many hipsters wearing all black outfits....i mean like black jeans and t-shirts...one was even wearing a beanie...
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Good Morning, News: Traffic Carnage, Racism, More Clinton Emails, and A Pair...
by Dirk VanderHart Not the most hopeful news morning we've ever seen, but let's press on anyway. The 20-year-old who was allegedly driving recklessly when he ran down a 15-year-old girl on SE...
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Free the Weed, and Drop the Charges
by Josh Jardine If at some point in the past you were charged with, and convicted of, a crime relating to cannabis in Oregon, two things: 1) That sucks and 2) There may be help to get those charges...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Natural Vs. Unnatural Threesomes
by Dan Savage Originally posted on December 10, 2014.I love your column, Dan, but I wanted to clear something up. Recently someone wrote to you that they—or their spouse—wanted to have a threesome,...
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The Stranger Things Soundtrackers Are Coming to Holocene
by Ned Lannamann Alex KachaAs a newspaper with its own style guide (an admittedly slender one that is chiefly devoted to swear words), we run roughshod over most bands' annoying typography. (Sorry,...
View ArticleHope You Like Movies in Your TV Shows!
by Ned Lannamann This is the trailer for the upcoming Lethal Weapon TV series. Yes, they made a TV show out of Lethal Weapon in the year 2016, a good two decades after this particular franchise hit...
View ArticleWatching Hillary Clinton Open that Pickle Jar on Jimmy Kimmel Just Proves...
by Christopher Frizzelle This is not the funniest thing I have ever seen Hillary Clinton do on Jimmy Kimmel's show, but it's the part of the show last night everyone's talking about:People talking...
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A Ghost Helped Write Johanna Warren's New Track “circlenot astraight”
by Ciara Dolan Gretchen Heinel This morning Consequence of Sound premiered a new track from Johanna Warren, the ominously beautiful piano dirge "circlenot astraight." It's the second single off the...
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Laura Ingalls Wilder No Longer Running for Congress; Michigan GOP Being a...
by Megan Burbank Melissa Gilbert in 1975. Yeah, I'd totally vote for her.NBC Television Network via Wikimedia CommonsWhy can't the good TV stars feel endlessly compelled to run for office?For those...
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