"Taco Truck On Every Corner" Warning Confirms Trumpist Hell Is Everyone...
by Rich Smith Speaking with MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid last night, Marco Gutierrez, founder of Latinos for Trump and member of a rapidly dwindling population of Latino Trump supporters, called out a...
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Multnomah County's Former County Emergency Manager Seeks To Clear His Name in...
by Dirk VanderHart Joe Rizzi speaks to county officials at a rare "name clearing" hearing.The Mercury was the only paper to write about the tumultuous departure of Multnomah County's top emergency...
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This Week on Blogtown
by Bri Brey Your week in review for Mon Aug 29 to Sat Sept 3!LEVI HASTINGSTOP STORY: The killer of a black teen in Gresham was a documented member of an Oregon white supremacist gang for the last 12...
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Complete Unknown Is a Complete Waste of Time! ZING
by Ned Lannamann I wonder if the makers of Complete Unknown were as allured and intrigued by the movie’s central character, Alice (Rachel Weisz), as they expect us to be. Alice is a lazy screenplay’s...
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Local Literary Journal Big Big Wednesday Looks to the Future
by Joshua James Amberson Sam LoperOver the last few years, the annual local literary journal Big Big Wednesday has become for many in the literary arts community one of those much-anticipated Portland...
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Another Dismal Road Performance Downs Timbers in Dallas
by Abe Asher USA Today Sports ImagesNo matter the heights they soar to at Providence Park, no matter what they've done the week before, and no matter who is on the field, the 2016 Portland Timbers...
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There’s a Lot More Than Pokémon in the Oregon Symphony’s 2016/17 Concerts
by Ned Lannamann JENNIFER ILETTIt's easy to lament the prominence of “pops” in this year’s Oregon Symphony calendar—nights dedicated to music from Pokémon, Frozen, and Raiders of the Lost Ark sit...
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by Anonymous It was the first time in my life I was attracted to a bus driver. I got on the #6 bus in the SW area of downtown a few weeks ago. She had purple hair, rainbow-reflective sunglasses,...
View ArticleYou know who you are
by Anonymous I am sick of you junkies. I'm sick of picking needles off the floor at work. I'm sick of kicking your asses out. I'm sick of kicking you off property for smoking meth right outside...
View ArticleRenters Need Not Apply
by Anonymous If the PPS board puts their $750,000,000 bond on the November ballot along with the City of Portland bond and Metro levy the total will be more than 1 billion dollars in new property...
View ArticleCrazy Cat Ladies
by Anonymous I have not lived in Portland for very long, but so far I have noticed that the city's contingent of Crazy Cat Ladies is quite impressive. Not in quantity, mind you, but in quality.[...
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by Anonymous Dear apartment neighbor who doesn't like me playing my acoustic at 7:00 am on a Sunday:King of double standards much? It isn't my fault you choose to stay up all night. It isn't my fault...
View ArticleThe Star-Racist Banner
by Anonymous Francis Scott Key, the wealthy American lawyer who wrote, "The Star Spangled Banner" was a slaveholder who believed blacks to be "a distinct and inferior race of people, which all...
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The Light Between Oceans: Another Derek Cianfrance Movie About Pretty People...
by Marjorie Skinner In the wake of World War I, people were defined by what they had lost. A generation of young men had been scorched from the earth, leaving a corresponding generation of young women...
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At This Year’s Time-Based Art Festival, the Stakes Will Be Higher
by Megan Burbank Duty FreeDylan Mira“The stakes are a lot higher in a space that we want to be able to welcome people into,” says Erin Boberg Doughton, performing arts program director for the...
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Anderson .Paak's Boom-Baptism
by Santi Elijah Holley ANDERSON .PAAK No longer Breezy Lovejoy.Jabari JacobTHIS YEAR HAS SEEN the loss of two of our greatest and most visionary performers—David Bowie and Prince represented a...
View ArticlePerpetual Tourists
by Anonymous Imagine that a bunch of American d-bags started moving to Paris in droves. And the second they arrived they started wearing berets and saying "ooh-la-la!!" and carrying comically...
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Good Morning, News: All Bleakness, Befitting Summer's End
by Dirk VanderHart The long weekend makes for a short week, everybody. That's the only silver lining I can find this bleak morning. While you were out enjoying our great state this weekend, a trio of...
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Things To Do This Week!
Things to do for Sept 6-8 by Mercury Staff Let there be ART! This week's big focus is obviously the massive celebration of Portland's creativity and artistic ambition in the form of TBA:16, PICA's...
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Portland Thorns Recap: Thorns Blast Boston Breakers
by Erin O'Regan The Thorns locked in a Labor Day win on Sunday when they beat the Boston Breakers 5-1. POINTS POINTS POINTS! AND YOU GET A POINT AND YOU GET A POINT!If you’re not doing fan kicks and...
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