Corn Doggy Style
A comprehensive corn dog power ranking. by Heather Arndt Anderson As a teenager I worked at Spencer’s Gifts at Clackamas Town Center. That tells you a lot about my pedigree, but you should know that...
View ArticleIn Praise of the Summertime Shame Drink
The Time Has Come for Pleasurable Consumption Without Apology by Megan Burbank New Yorker contributor Jia Tolentino recently confided in a piece on Girls that since the election, she’s been allowing...
View ArticlePortland Finally Has a Mountain Bike Park
It’s sandwiched between two freeways, and it’s probably just the beginning. by Dirk VanderHart In what will soon be Portland’s finest sanctioned mountain biking facility, solitude doesn’t come...
View ArticleComics Artist, Cyclist, Activist
Eleanor Davis took a bike ride that awakened her to injustice. by Suzette Smith Just before sitting down to write this book review, I glance at Twitter and see Eleanor Davis has been arrested. Her...
View ArticleOur Picks for Pedalpalooza 2017
Our picks for Pedalpalooza 2017. by Dirk VanderHart We’ve got an old poster at the Mercury offices that bills Pedalpalooza as “Two+ weeks of bikey fun.”That was 2009, though. In 2017, Portland’s...
View ArticleWhy Don't You People Have Goals!?
by Anonymous Lived here a decade and I am still shocked by how many people I see around Portland who have absolutely no goals. Some own homes, have pets, have good jobs, but that's it. They maybe have...
View ArticleGood Morning, News: Parasites in Our Water, Trump Budget Hurts the Poor, and...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! I need a soldier that ain't scared to stand up for me. Known to carry big things, if you know what I mean. LET'S GO TO PRESS.Thanks to that rainy, rainy...
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Tonight's Screening of The Big Lebowski at the Academy Theater Is for a Good...
by Erik Henriksen The Academy Theater has been showing the Coen brothers' cult favorite The Big Lebowski for the past few days, but tonight's screening is a special one: All ticket and concession...
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Máscaras' Glorious, Chaotic Energy Courses Through Their New EP, El Morán
by Ben Salmon If you put musicians in a room and tell ’em to jam, you’re going to end up with fewer hits than misses. But sometimes, you end up with something like Máscaras, the Portland instrumental...
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Girlpool Takes Risks Without Losing Their Radical Vulnerability
by Nathan Tucker GIRLPOOL The band that eats strawberries together stays together.Kacie TomitaThere’s a moment in the middle of “123”—the stunning opening track from Girlpool’s new record,...
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Rapid-Fire Reviews for New Cannabis Products
by Josh Jardine Black RockAs a cannabis columnist, I receive a fairly large number of cannabis products for review. This week, I’m going to knock out some quick reviews for a bevy of items. Most of...
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Portland Police Refuse To Check Their Guns At the City's New Mental Health...
by Dirk VanderHart Jason SturgillON A WALL just past two locked doors at Portland’s new facility for people in acute mental health crisis, a small silver sign sits above three beige lockboxes.It’s...
View ArticleFool Me Once
by Anonymous We broke up last year after dating for a short time and decided to remain friends. After a few months I reached out to see if you wanted to hang. You did, and I thought it was cool...
View ArticleBaywatch Sucks
Sorry. by Ciara Dolan Baywatch plays like a two-hour wet dream, and you will leave feeling like the crusty sheet. For the ’90s TV series’ feature-length revival, director Seth Gordon jumbles together...
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Good Morning, News: A Montana Republican Assaulted a Journalist Yesterday....
by Doug Brown Good morning, Portland. It's link time. First up, out in print as of yesterday (pick up a copy), is our summer guide. It's fun and good and you should read it. Jason SturgillThe Portland...
View ArticleTweet Storm: GOP Candidate Greg Gianforte Body Slams Reporter, Twitter Body...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey As noted in Good Morning, News, Montana GOP candidate Greg Gianforte has been charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly body slamming a Guardian reporter after he asked a...
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Attn. Deadheads, Masochists, and Masochistic Deadheads: Cinema 21 Has a...
by Ned Lannamann To put it as charitably as possible: I have, uh, mixed feelings about the Grateful Dead. It turns out Jerry Garcia did, too, and the final stretches of Long Strange Trip—Amazon’s...
View ArticleBirds And....
by Anonymous Been watching these birds. Specifically the crows, pigeons, seagulls. I'll say it: they work way harder for their survival than most homeless I see in downtown do. I'm so tired about this...
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Why Would Ishmael Butler Revive Digable Planets? Because He’s Cool Like That
by Dave Segal DIGABLE PLANETS Rebirth of the cool.Chris LeeShabazz Palaces’ mastermind Ishmael Butler walks and talks as if he’s just had the best sex of his life. His voice, a laidback drawl, exudes...
View ArticleAnd Voids
by Anonymous There's an emptiness to you folks that have jobs that is more upsetting to me than I feel compassion for. I get it too. I get down and low. Never lonely though I will most likely die...
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