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Mercury Food Team Recaps Feast Portland!
by Andrea Damewood Courtesy Feast Portland InstagramFeast Portland’s fifth anniversary blowout has come and gone, and the eating team here at the Mercury is slowly returning from the blur of bites and...
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Well, Here's an Image of Donald Trump That's Enough to Make Your Heart Stop
by Christopher Frizzelle No, not this photo...uplift_the_world / Shutterstock.comTHIS photo. Which, I guess isn't a photo. It's a heart attack courtesy of Photoshop.You ought to read the piece this...
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Things To Do Tonight 9/21
by Mercury Staff Sigur Rós Sigur Rós are scaling back the frills on their current tour, but beefing up the content. The Icelandic band will perform without any backing musicians as they run through...
View ArticleDriving Like an Asshole
by Anonymous This weekend I noticed I'd just passed a car in the next lane. The car had stopped for a pedestrian who was crossing the street, and I just motored on through. That incident made me...
View ArticleBaby Girl
by Anonymous Your baby thinks she's super cute. You think she is the cutest thing on earth. I bet she thinks she's super cute because you tell her she's such a cutie. She doesn't speak. But she points...
View ArticleDid you get the memo?
by Anonymous That between Nov 21 through Jan 5, if an employee asks for any vacation time, it will not be approved due to it being the busiest time of year for "us." So don't ask for time off because...
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Shut 2016 Down: Rialto Poolroom Bar is Closing
The 96-Year-Old Downtown Icon To Close Christmas Day by Andrea Damewood If you're someone who spent their formative years drinking in Portland, chances are good that you've blacked out or come close...
View ArticleGoodbye Poor Old Bush
by Anonymous We had to cut you down, dear sweet bushy plant. It wasn't anything you did that forced us to do it. You were a wonderful floral additional to the corner of the apartment building with...
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Good Morning, News: Standoff Trial, The Rialto's Closing, and Richard Sherman...
by Megan Burbank Let's enjoy this photo of some birds from the Malheur Wildlife Refuge before we get into the standoff trial.Barbara Wheeler of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters via...
View ArticleZach Galifianakis Returns in "Between Two Ferns" with Guest... Hillary Clinton?
by Wm.â„¢ Steven Humphrey Just when you thought you'd never again be blessed by an episode of "Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifiankis" there's a brand new one, and it's guest starring Hillary Clinton....
View ArticlePre-Roll Me Another One
by Anonymous I guess I haven't read the fine print. There must be a reason that pre-rolled joints for sale are ridiculously large, and "smokable" only by a largish group, or by someone with yogic...
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Chocolate + Beer = Choktoberfest
by Heather Arndt Anderson Missing Oktoberfest already? Here's another way to celebrate the best beer, chocolate, and German food that Portland has to offer. Rub elbows with Portland's local...
View ArticleKGW's Questionable Interview with Joel Magid Shows Disregard For Survivors of...
by Megan Burbank Joel Magid, the Portland musician who earlier this month announced via Facebook that he'd sexually assaulted someone appeared in an interview on KGW, and it's bad. Magid admits to the...
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Daddy Issues
by Dan Savage I'm a gay guy in my twenties who is reluctantly attracted to older guys. I don't ever see myself marrying someone who is twenty years older than me, I could never be in a public...
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Trump Clarifies He Was Just Opportunistically Trying to Get People to Stop...
by Christopher Frizzelle The face he made right after saying Obama was born in the United States last week. Really looks contrite, huh?In case Trump didn't seem sincere to you last week when he said,...
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CoHo's The Gun Show Starts a Crucial Conversation About America's Gun Problem
by Joshua James Amberson OWEN CAREYIn CoHo's production of The Gun Show, the fourth wall is down, the script is onstage, the playwright is in the audience, and the actor playing the playwright is...
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Portland May Be Less Diverse than Salt Lake City
by Charles Mudede Though Portland is very white, and getting whiter, it is not all bad news for blacks.Atmosphere1/Shutterstock.comPortland may be the whitest big city in America, but unlike Seattle,...
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Hillary's Poll Numbers Are Improving (But There's No Improving the Electoral...
by Dan Savage Hillary Clinton.Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.comSensible people everywhere spent the last week freaking out about the election. Donald Trump was closing the gap to Hillary Clinton in the...
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Things To Do Tonight 9/22
by Mercury Staff Northwest Hesh Fest: Day 1 Believe it or not, our trip around the sun has already brought us to another Northwest Hesh Fest. The first night features local kingpins Red Fang three...
View ArticleDon't Be the Trump of Portland
by Anonymous This one goes out to everyone still clinging to a hardcore "locals only" exclusivity dogma. I moved to Portland just over six months ago, and I didn't come because my job moved me or...
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