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The Handmaiden Is a Gluttonous Feast for the Mind and Eye
by Marc Mohan The Handmaiden runs almost two and a half hours, but it’s stuffed with enough narrative twists and detail to fill a movie twice as long. It’s a gluttonous feast for the mind and the eye,...
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Things to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff RIP: A Halloween Tribute—Cooky Parker, Lamar Leroy, Bobby D, Jimbo Four of the city's best DJs join forces like dancefloor Ghostbusters to pay homage to the deceased by spinning the...
View ArticleOde to the Human Raisers
by Anonymous Stop looking at me with those "poor you" eyes, and know that just because I don't have kids doesn't mean I am a lesser person. I know you're secretly envious of my freedom, peace of mind,...
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Insecure Is About Black Girls Pre-Magic, and It Is Everything
by Jenni Moore There isn't another show like Insecure—a show by and for black women. Girlfriends went off the air in 2008, and Being Mary Jane and Scandal’s leading black women are overachieving...
View ArticleKeep Portland Cookie Cutter
by Anonymous Can someone please explain to me what is "weird" about Portland? Seriously, all I see are white yuppies who live privileged lives while playing dress-up. The dog and cat "moms," the yoga...
View ArticleSome Folks Say
by Anonymous I don't care about this email "scandal" and will vote for Hillary without question. Unless we get all of Ducky Trump's emails, Hillary's "scandal" is in a bubble. Trump won't even release...
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Things to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff La Femme, Wet Dream While Parisian experimental pop project La Femme has been releasing unabashedly weird dance music since 2010, the group broke into American consciousness with...
View ArticleTheir Problem
by Anonymous We are all born in the USA.I remember the Boss singing about closed steel mills and whitewashed windows and vacant stores. I didn’t think much about it. I just liked the music. Between...
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Things to Do This Week
Things to do for the week of Oct 31-Nov 3 by Mercury Staff You may think you got all your Halloween ya-yas out over the past weekend but nope! You still got the actual day to indulge in! And you know...
View ArticleGood Morning, News: FBI Director Tampers with Election, Dakota Pipeline...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Meeting Mr. Right, the man of my dreams, the one who shows me true love (or at least it seems). LET'S GO TO PRESS.HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYBODY! Don't do...
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The Walking Dead Recap: Congratulations on Owning a Tiger
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey First things first: People who own tigers are DUMB, and... wait. Did you watch last night's episode of The Walking Dead? If not, GO 'WAY. If so, then check out my...
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A Spooky, Mournful Demon
by Andrew Wright Watching another culture's horror movies can provide a fascinating glimpse into what makes them collectively tick. The Polish Demon offers an intriguing, deceptively comedic spin on...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Let Me Be a Part of Your Pissing Experience!
by Dan Savage Originally posted on March 5, 2014.You always take questions from BDSMers and cuckolds and hardcore sexers, but will you take mine? Won't you please offer some advice to me, a simple...
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FULL RECAP: FashioNXT 2016
by Cassie Ridgway My apologies for how long it has taken me to recap FashioNXT. To be honest, fitting this much fashion into one four-day marathon is a Herculean effort, and recapping every designer...
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Millennial Tales of Terror: Smooth Exorcist
by Suzette Smith Kenneth HueyFor a while, I lived in a Detroit mansion. It had three stories, two wings, 10 bedrooms, and a ceiling that was falling in. The mansion was rife with haunts. One guest saw...
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Millennial Tales of Terror: Make Room for Daddy
by Joe Streckert Kenneth HueyOh, I don’t drink coffee,” she said as we sat down at a coffee shop, “but you suggested this place, so I said yes.”Had the worst date of my life been a horror movie, this...
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Donald Trump's History of Shredding Documents and Destroying Emails When He's...
by Christopher Frizzelle "Oh my god, guess what? I've deleted thousands of emails, too. Even when I've been under subpoena!"a katz / Shutterstock.comToday Newsweek published an explosive story about...
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From the Archive: Happy Heteroween
Putting the Hetero in Halloween by Dan Savage ROBERT ZUCKERMANThere's something scary—scary in all the wrong ways—about a "sexy Jane Doe" costume.The sexy cadaver costume is half of one of those...
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Awakening Portland's Ghosts on the Lone Fir Cemetery's Tour of Untimely...
by Ciara Dolan THE TOUR OF UNTIMELY DEPARTURES MTV Crypts.Courtesy of Portland MetroWithout context, Saturday evening's festivities outside of the Lone Fir Cemetery probably looked like some kind of...
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Portland Man Accused of Strangling Woman Who Rebuffed Kiss
by Doug Brown Jason Kascius, 43Left: Facebook. Right: MCSOA 43-year-old Portland man is behind bars, accused of straddling, strangling, and threatening to kill a woman for not kissing him on...
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