Dollops of Wisdom
Get through your Trump grief with these essential episodes of Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds’ history podcast. by Megan Burbank When the present sucks, it’s time to study history, and if you’re like...
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The latest in Portland hip-hop. by Jenni Moore LAST WEEK Portland singer/rapper the Last Artful, Dodgr dropped “Oofda,” the first single from her forthcoming LP Bone Music with producer Neill Von...
View ArticleThe Mercury Staff’s Wish List of Holiday Gifts!
Here are the perfect holiday gifts—to give the Mercury staff. by Mercury Staff Every holiday it’s the same thing: people saying “gimme, gimme, gimme!” So... why should we be left out? Here at the...
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by Anonymous Foreclosures galore are coming. Rent will be cheap again, all the dicks will be gone, streets will be grittier, people will be less likely to share their opinion with you, it will rain...
View ArticleGood Morning, News: The Mayor's March of "Nope," Trump Flip-Flops, and Will...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! If I could fall into the sky, do you think time would pass me by? 'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles, if I could just see you tonight. LET'S GO...
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This Week's Style Events
by Elizabeth Mollo Lots of stuff happening this weekend!If you are not yet aware of Little Boxes you either A) have just moved here, or B) have never stepped foot in any of our locally owned...
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Floating Room's Sunless Reflects a Distorted Reality
by Ciara Dolan FLOATING ROOM The world is not everyone’s oyster.Hannah Cantrell “OH MY SAD GOD/Look at what we’ve become/I thought I believed/But was I the only one?”Sung by Floating Room’s Maya...
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Computer Scientist Explains Why Electoral College May Have Been Hacked
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey iStockAs you read yesterday, the New York magazine reported on a group of computer scientists and lawyers who have been privately lobbying Hillary Clinton to contest the...
View ArticleWhat Happened?!
by Anonymous I don't understand. Lately it seems the shit hit the proverbial fan and exploded, splattering toxic shrapnel everywhere. People are in survival mode. Their mood swings can make you wind...
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The New Rules for Testing Cannabis Concentrates Are Causing Headaches
by Josh Jardine ISTOCK / JDAWNINKON YOUR LAST trip to the dispensary, you might have noticed that some of your favorite non-flower cannabis products are missing. That pain-relieving topical you count...
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Upcoming Portland Resistance & Rallies
by Mercury Staff GABRIEL GREENWe've written about resisting Trump by donating to crucial organizations, and things you can do now to not feel powerless in these tough times, but if you want to get to...
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Things to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff YG, RJ, Kamaiyah, Sad Boy Even when you’re furiously insisting that Donald Trump isn’t your president, the chants can get uninspired. The hard miles tick by, confrontations with...
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Parking Isn't Going to Be Required at Portland Condos/Apartments Anymore
by Dirk VanderHart Portland's years-long experiment with parking requirements ends in 2018. A little more than three years after Portland City Council troubled smart-growth advocates by forcing...
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Fea Calls for a Revolution
by Emilly Prado FEA High-quality ferocity.Ray Tattoo BoyTHE MEMBERS OF San Antonio’s Fea—an acronym for “fuck ’em all” and the Spanish word for “ugly girl”—play commanding and unabashedly political...
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Russell Courtier, The White Supremacist Accused of Killing Larnell Bruce,...
by Doug Brown Russell Courtier is accused of running down and killing Larnell Bruce in August. He was just indicted for a 2015 assaultLevi HastingsRussell Courtier—the 38-year-old member of the...
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Let's Give Thanks for Threesomes!
by Dan Savage A few weeks ago, my live-in boyfriend (let's call him James) sat down next to me after a particularly stressful week of grad school and said "I have a hard question. A former sex partner...
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How to Get Through Thanksgiving at Your Right-Wing Family's House
by Ansel Herz Levi HastingsIf you hang with your right-wing family this Thanksgiving, you're likely to hear and experience tacit or outright racism. You're going to hear praise for the misogynist in...
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Moana Review: Need Hope for the Next Generation? Look No Further.
by Jenni Moore If you need hope for the next generation, look no further than Disney’s latest. Somewhere on a South Pacific island where natural elements have literal spirits, Moana (voiced by Auli’i...
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Bad Santa 2 Review: Hey, At Least It's Better Than Love Actually
by Ned Lannamann A Christmas movie doesn’t have to be that good to make it into the yearly holiday rotation. (Cases in point: Elf. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Love Actually. Don’t @ me.) So...
View ArticleBicycle Mansplainer
by Anonymous To the white dude, day before Thanksgiving, biking through Rose Quarter and up Williams: You are a fucking sexist. It was sexist to patronizingly tell me "just wait a few seconds" when I...
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