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According to a Fox News Poll, Only 34 Percent of Voters Support GOP...
by Megan Burbank Look, most of us just want old ladies to be able to go to the doctor. It's not complicated, GOP.Getty / FatCameraCONSIDER THE SOURCE. Because if a Fox poll is saying this, you know...
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A Grateful Nation Salutes You, Former McDonalds Social Media Manager
by Dan Savage The company says it was hacked... but the tweet was deleted pretty quick. Buttsore Trumpsters immediately added a #BoycottMcDonalds hashtag to their growing collection of buttsore...
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Jesca Hoop's Memories Are Now Blooms with the Season
by Ben Salmon JESCA HOOP Triple vision.ANGEL CEBALLOSMaybe it’s the season, but when she’s talking about her new album Memories Are Now, the California-raised, Manchester, UK-based musician Jesca Hoop...
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Win Tickets to this Monday's I, Anonymous Show!
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey The Mercury's monthly live I, Anonymous Show is a laff-tastic, rant-filled kick in the pants—and that's why we want to share it with everybody! Win two tickets to this Monday's...
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Win Tickets to the NW Film Center's Screening of Boyz n the Hood!
by Erik Henriksen This Saturday night, as part of their Magic & Loss: Coming of Age Onscreen series, the NW Film Center is screening John Singleton’s landmark 1991 film Boyz n the Hood. The chance...
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Idaho Tokers Kickstarted a Small Oregon Border Town's Economy
by Josh Jardine IDAHO STATESMAN / JOE JASZEWSKIThe Associated Press and the Idaho Statesman—both of which are a part of the deeply feared and dreaded “opposition party” Emperor Pussy Grabber has...
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The City Will Ask a Skeptical Judge to Agree with Its New Meeting Exclusion...
by Dirk VanderHart Protesters swarm City Hall in October, railing against a City Council vote on a new police contract.Dirk VanderHartIn coming weeks, the city plans to file a motion before US...
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Bands I Pretended to Like for Boys. Part Eleven: Nickel Creek
by Kathleen Tarrant Nickel Creek’s Pavement cover is all sweetness and light, hanging too many ornaments on a thin branch.One day in my sophomore year of high school, my friend Isabella and I met for...
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Too Drunk To Swing
by Dan Savage My husband and I are newlyweds who have been together for almost five years. Over the course of our relationship, we have discussed the potential of bringing other partners into the...
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Grand Jury Clears Officers Who Shot 56-year-old Man Last Month
by Doug Brown Don PerkinsThe two Portland Police officers who shot a 56-year-old man in an apparent mental health crisis were cleared of any criminal wrongdoing by a grand jury yesterday, the Portland...
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This Week's Style Events
by Elizabeth Mollo Bridge & Burn will launch their Spring 2017 collection on Thursday. Go scope out their newest duds at their flagship store, and while you're at it take in a gin tasting with...
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Pickathon Starlight Series, Episode 6: Yemen Blues
by Ned Lannamann Ravid Kahalani of Yemen BluesTodd CooperPickathon's Starlight Series continues with this scorching performance from Yemen Blues, the Tel Aviv-based band that was for my money the...
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Good Morning, News: Ask Yourself this, Portland—Do You Feel Lucky?
by Dirk VanderHart It is not the scent of clover that wafts over the near-spring breeze this St. Patrick's Day, but a rancid wind from DC. Someone should ring in the day by bashing Donald Trump's...
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Things to Do This Weekend: March 17-19
by Mercury Staff It's often called Amateur Hour, but it doesn't have to play that way. The weekend starts with St. Patrick's Day, but it doesn't have to end there, in a green-beer induced blackout...
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Timbers v. Houston Match Preview
by Abe Asher Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland TimbersSurprisingly enough, Providence Park's second game of the 2017 MLS season will be a battle of unbeatens on Saturday night — the 2-0-0 Portland Timbers...
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Marvel's Iron Fist Debuts on Netflix; Reviews are... Ahem. Not So Good.
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey MARVEL'S IRON FIST: Hahahahahahaaaaa!!! NO.Courtesy NetflixIt's true, you have to eat a lot of crap to be a comic book fan—primarily in the form of decades old racism, and...
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Cinema 21's Film Noir Festival Matches the Mood of 2017
by Ned Lannamann After the trauma of World War II, Americans wanted to take shelter in the blithely inoffensive music and film of the late ’40s and ’50s. And yet the darker undercurrents, the...
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Green Noise Records Is Changing Hands and Locations
by Ned Lannamann Local punk/indie record shop Green Noise Records is moving. It’s also changing ownership, as current owner Ken Cheppaikode is leaving Portland for Wisconsin. This is a bittersweet...
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Put Down the Green Beer and Enjoy a Quiet Pint with Clannad
by Ciara Dolan CLANNAD Family band.SUZANNE CROMPTONFor many Americans, March 17 is the day to cut loose and LARP Flogging Molly’s sloppy anthem “Drunken Lullabies” while chugging green beer and...
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Why Should Oregon Care About Legal Weed in California?
by Sean Clancy GETTY / REX_WHOLSTERDear Pot Lawyer,What’s happening in the California cannabis scene? And why should we care in Oregon?There are literal tons of cannabis-related activities in our...
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