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Animal Rights Activists Sue Beaverton, Cops For 2015 Arrests
by Doug Brown Three animal rights activists who were arrested by the Beaverton Police Department in 2015 are suing the city and four cops in federal court, alleging civil rights violations. They were...
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by Anonymous People of online dating: QUIT saying that you love to laugh. It's annoying, it's stupid and IT'S FUCKING OBVIOUS. "I love to laugh" is like saying, "I really like to breath air," or "I...
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Good Morning, News: A Police Discipline Shocker, Laurelhurst Wants Homeless...
by Dirk VanderHart Your dreams, from here on out. Depoe Bay Fire DistrictThe worst part isn't the slime, a fetid, ceaseless mucous drizzling from the doors, windows, and sundry other shattered...
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13 things to do for July 14 by Mercury Staff The Revolution The Family Stone. The Heartbreakers. The J.B.’s. There have been many great backing bands, but perhaps none were greater than the...
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14 things to do for July 15 by Mercury Staff The Big Float Get ready to get wet, because Portland’s best river event of the year is going down on Saturday, July 15... the annual Big Float! For those...
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9 things to do for July 16 by Mercury Staff Aimee Mann, Rhiannon Giddens In the rush to castigate Portlandia for spurring on the city’s ever-speedier metamorphosis, I suppose there are those who’d...
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Zerzura Is a Surreal, Electrifying Voyage
by Robert Ham Local ethnomusicologist Christopher Kirkley’s first film was ambitious enough: Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai was a loose remake of Purple Rain, filmed in Niger, starring African...
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How Portland Zinester Kate Berube Took Over Children’s Lit
by Joshua James Amberson Hannah and SugarKATE BERUBEThere are few things I love more than a good picture book. As I’ve moved around as an adult, I’ve ditched most of the novels, memoirs, and poetry...
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How to Find This Weekend's Perfect Brunch
by Mercury Staff Broder NordAARON LEEIt’s Saturday (or Sunday) morning, say around 9 am. You want to go to brunch, your friends want to go to brunch—but you correctly suspect that you should’ve...
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Portland's Pretty: Inside the Suitcase Laundry Photo Shoot
by Marissa Sullivan Marissa SullivanIt was the last Wednesday in June, and I was invited to one of the coolest happenings in town (IMO, of course). It’s an event called Suitcase Laundry organized by a...
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This Weekend's Style Events!
by Elizabeth Mollo Here are a couple of fun events this weekend if you dig vintage stuff!West End Select Shop is teaming up with Bronwyn Nakamura of Eye For Beauty Vintage, a recent Tokyo transplant...
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Record Review: 4:44, Jay-Z
by Jenni Moore Never in my life have I loved a Jay-Z album this much. Don’t get me wrong—I respect Jay-Z for his impact on the hip-hop genre, and love a lot of his songs. Hell, I’ve even seen him...
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Yousef Hatlani's Bit by Bit Painstakingly Reinvents Retro Game Sounds
by Morgan Troper YOUSEF HATLANI Portland's friendliest "tastemaker."AARON SHARPSTEENFor the better half of the past decade, Yousef Hatlani has been one of those everywhere-at-once scene notables; he...
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Bait And Switch: The Cops'"48-Hour Rule" Isn't Dead. It's Stronger Than Ever.
by Dirk VanderHart Demonstrators flood City Hall in protest of a new police union contract last October. A big part of that contract suddenly appears null and void. Dirk VanderHartNot that it did much...
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Seven Weekends of French Cinema at Northwest Film Center
by Ned Lannamann Alain Delon in Le Samouraï.Northwest Film CenterAs France celebrates Bastille Day today, the Northwest Film Center is prepping a French celebration of its own—tomorrow kicks off their...
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I've Got Hungry Eyes
by Kathleen Marie There's something we need to talk about this weekend, and that's BRUNCH. It's that essential weekend meal that brings people of all different hangovers together and makes us human...
View ArticleYou Weren't at Work, and You Were Buying Drugs
by Anonymous You were waiting outside the dispensary like everyone else for the sweet happy hour deal to start, but you were the only one yelling and screaming into your phone. Presumably, someone was...
View ArticleWhere's my fucking tip for existing?
by Anonymous I was unable to pick my bike up from Go By Bike valet by 7:30. They used to text you the bike combo if you couldn’t make it on time. At some point it changed unbeknownst to me. The...
View ArticleTo the Wednesday night squealers at the Landmark
by Anonymous Going to a venue with limited room where people are listening to music is not the right place to speak over the band. You stood in the middle of the bar having a loud conversation,...
View ArticleBackyard Dilemma
by Anonymous My nice neighbor lets a fellow live in his van in the back driveway, where he meets his friends and putters around. The fellow and his buddies are sketchy — as far as I can tell they...
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