Luke Cage Debuts on Netflix Tonight! Stay Up and Get HYPED!
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Just after midnight tonight, Netflix will be streaming the first season of one of my most anticipated new shows of 2016—Marvel's Luke Cage. And they've already released the...
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Read the 2016 Oregon Cannabis Guide!
Your Annual Mini-Magazine About All Things Weed Has Arrived by Ned Lannamann BEHOLD: Your brand-new Oregon Cannabis Guide. It's the Portland Mercury's second annual supplement about all things weed,...
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This Weekend's Style Events
by Elizabeth Mollo ReliqueLille Boutique will host a trunk show and sample sale for Relique, a New York based lingerie line. The event will feature a meet-and-greet session with one of the designers,...
View ArticleGod, Guns & Trump Pt.1
by Anonymous I need some advice.Here is the deal ~ My next door neighbor has been a tenant & employee of our landlord for almost 20 yrs. The business is construction. That's relevant because there...
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by Anonymous He would destroy our property (purposely trample flower beds, break things, etc), make as much noise as possible, & peek into my roommates window, laughing. The LL refused to do...
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by Anonymous Finally, his niece had been living next door to his family. She was young & had a party one night. Lo & behold, she invited some black people to the party. Yes, all the kids were...
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by Anonymous The lady in blue who caught your eye with those rainbow glasses had cried her fake eyelashes off that morning, her life had turned upside down overnight.Still she found reasons to smile,...
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Good Morning, News: Fire-Sale Weed, a Lunchtime Debate, and a Year Since...
by Dirk VanderHart Amanda LucierTomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Roseburg's Umpqua Community College. Nine people were murdered on October 1, 2015, before the shooter...
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Things To Do This Weekend!
Things to do for Sept 30-Oct 2 by Mercury Staff If there was a single word to describe the weekend, "representative," could be that word. There's Peaches representing sexual revolution. There's the...
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Funny things to do for the month of October by Chipp Terwilliger All Jane Comedy Festival The All Jane Comedy Festival returns for its 5th year, serving up performances from their first ever...
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How to eat, drink, and be merry for the month of October by Mercury Staff 2016 Handmade Bike and Beer Festival The annual party paying tribute to two of Portland's favorite pastimes: Riding bikes and...
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Timbers v. Colorado Match Preview
by Abe Asher Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY SportsThe Portland Timbers' road woes have finally caught up to them. Four days after failing to win on the road for the fifteenth consecutive time this MLS season,...
View ArticleFake Sleeper. Fake Everything.
by Anonymous You're such a phony. The way you pretend to be so, so, so exhausted after 5 hours of work. Just listening to you grunt and moan like your body is in such agony. From what? 5 hours of...
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Edward Scissorhands Made by Director Who Wants to Be True to White People
by Charles Mudede The director Tim Burton has finally explained why there are no black people (or people of color) in almost all his films. It's not that he dislikes blacks or anything like that, but,...
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: A Tweet Storm of Excellent Advice
by Dan Savage There are four or five hundred thousand emails in my inbox from straight guys asking why assholes get all the girls, why they keep getting friend-zoned, and why the girls who really...
View ArticleCrossdresser
by Anonymous I'm a 32 year old married masculine man. By masculine I mean full beard, stocky, bulky arms, broad shoulders, deep voice, etc. You would never know it if you met me, but I cross-dress in...
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Happy 10th Birthday to Portland's Media Institute for Social Change!
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Courtesy Media Institute for Social ChangeIt was roughly 10 years ago this month when former Mercury reporter (and forever friend of the paper) Phil Busse launched the Media...
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At the Very Least, Queen of Katwe Isn't a Schmaltzy Embarrassment
by Elinor Jones QUEEN OF KATWE"Pawn to F3? That's your opening move? Amateur."There's a not insignificant legacy of terrible movies about poor brown kids being taught out of poverty by godly white...
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No One’s Policing Lead Dust in Demolition-Happy Portland
by Dirk VanderHart NICOLE XUIN A YEAR when environmental hazards have screamed across TV news broadcasts with surprising frequency, lead has had a starring role.Already on alert from disturbing...
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Things To Do Tonight 9/30
by Mercury Staff Drive-By Truckers, Lydia Loveless Drive-By Truckers—whose badass name matches their bad-ass Southern alt-country sound—are making a can’t-miss stop in Portland the same day the...
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