Bridging the Gap
Meet Bertony Faustin, Oregon’s first black winemaker. by MJ Skegg Perhaps it shouldn’t matter that an Oregon winemaker is black. But of course it matters. It’s America in 2016, after all. We live in a...
View ArticleWe Ranked The Best Box Wines Because We Classy
What?! Box Wine Is Totally Good Now! by Andrea Damewood Close your eyes and turn up your patrician noses, wine snerbs: BOX WINE IS TOTALLY FINE. In fact?! BOX WINE IS GREAT!Box wine is bae: It...
View ArticleThe Thrifty Sommelier
Here ya go, cheapskate: fine wines under $15. by MJ Skegg There’s this folktale: a French village, perhaps in the Loire or Languedoc, that has a little café. There’s no wine list here; you simply...
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This Week's Letters to the Editor: A Dispatch from Flavortown!
by Erik Henriksen GUYFIERI.COMRE: “The Mercury Staff’s Wish List of Holiday Gifts!” [Feature, Nov 23], in which Music Editor Ciara Dolan asked readers to buy her a chef hat signed by her favorite...
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Rules Don't Apply Review: It's Good To Have Warren Beatty Back
by Ned Lannamann TV may get all the shine nowadays, but old-fashioned movie-star charisma goes a long way. Case in point: Warren Beatty, who’s returned to movies after a 15-year hiatus. He wrote,...
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Seven Companies Want to Buy Terminal 1—And One Wants Portlandia, Too
by Dirk VanderHart Lithia Motors doesn't just want Terminal 1 for its $10 million. It wants Portlandia.The massive, Medford-based auto retailer is now one of seven entities [PDF] that have active bids...
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Things to Do Tonight!
Re-Run Theater: Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time As we stumble through 2016's darkest timeline, we find bright spots where we can. Here's one! The Hollywood Theatre's Re-Run Theater series is showing...
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Trump's Cabinet Picks Include Betsy DeVos, a Major Funder of Conversion (or...
by Christopher Frizzelle If I pray hard enough, will Betsy DeVos and Mike Pence just go away?Betsy DeVos Media Photo/ShutterstockI can't believe we're back to conversion therapy being a mainstream...
View ArticleLots of Money that Could Be Better Spent
by Anonymous So they fire the Ducks football coach and assistants and now the state has to come up with a pile of money (I have heard 15 mil) to buy out their contracts. This is a state that says it...
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Live In Nope
by Dan Savage Could you give my email address to Constantly Lamenting Over Sudden Unexplained Relationship Ending, aka CLOSURE in yesterday's SLLOTD? I just went through a similar thing and had a...
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After Video of Rough Arrest During a Trump Protest, Portland's Independent...
by Doug Brown Portland police officers arresting Kathryn Stevens on November 21twitter.com/GregoryMcKelveyTo activist Gregory McKelvey, a Portland police officer tried to break Kathryn Stevens' neck....
View ArticleI'm From Here
by Anonymous To the man who yelled at me to "go home" on my commute this morning (I still have my CA plates, although I'm an OR native): I'm sorry for the frustration you must feel at the rising cost...
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Good Morning, News: Mayor Calls for Police Inquiry, Pot Testing Problems, and...
by Dirk VanderHart Lots of news popping off this Thursday morning, Portland. Tie a linen around your neck, and let's dig in. First, read about how Mayor Charlie Hales has asked the city's Independent...
View ArticleThings to Do Comedy
Funny things to do for the month of December by Chipp Terwilliger Tig Notaro Fresh off her funny, moving, and all-around terrific autobiographical Amazon series, One Mississippi, the unstoppable Tig...
View ArticleThings to Do Food
How to eat, drink, and be merry for the month of December by Mercury Staff St Johns Winter Beer Fest The sixth annual celebration of winter beer, (the best beer), featuring 20 different winter brews,...
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Blazer Recap: The Blazers Halt the Pacers, 131-109
by Aris Hunter Wales Ok. Let’s all take one, big, collective deep breath…and exhale slowly. Now that we’re relaxed, we can all ask in unison, “What the fuck is going on with the Blazers, man!?!” What...
View ArticleWatch This CNN Interviewer Face-Palm Herself Listening to Ignorant Trump...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey There are still those who say we should "listen" to the people who voted for Trump, because they have important things that we need to hear. FINE. Here's a great example of...
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Boise's Treefort Music Festival Just Announced the First Round of Artists on...
by Ciara Dolan Acid Mothers Temple at Treefort 2016Katie SummerFinally some good news: Treefort just announced the first wave of artists playing next year's festival, which takes place in downtown...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: We Will Never Get Closure On CLOSURE
by Dan Savage Hi, Dan! Love the Slog. I've been reading for years. So much insightful content in there. And one of the things I love is that you will post rebuttals and counter-points to your SLLOTD....
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PDXtreme Film Fest Is Therapy for Your Existential Dread
by Courtney Ferguson How's everyone doing out there? I don’t know about y’all, but I feel a little numb. A little dead inside. A little lost. And when I get that feeling, I like to turn to the...
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