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Guest Editorial: Why I Couldn't—Not Wouldn't—Open My Church to Hurricane...
I know this may sound a little whatever, but we just redid the floors like a week ago. by Joel Osteen Joel Osteen, Pastor, Lakewood Church, Houston, Texas IDA MAE ASTUTEFriends, I come to you today...
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Don’t miss the September edition of the I, Anonymous Show! by Mercury Staff America—and especially Portland—loves the Mercury’s weekly I, Anonymous column and blog in which anonymous people (like YOU)...
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Things To Do Film: September 1-7
Elia Kazan’s East of Eden, a 14-minute Paul Thomas Anderson film, and more. by Mercury Staff B-Movie Bingo: Above the Law Your monthly opportunity to literally check off a bingo card full of B-movie...
View ArticleGoon Was Great. Goon: Last of the Enforcers Sucks.
Most sports movies traffic in clichés. Goon: Last of the Enforcers can’t even decide which ones to use. by Vince Mancini 2011’s hockey comedy Goon wasn’t groundbreaking, but it was grounded—you could...
View ArticleThe Romcom Gets Flipped with I Do...Until I Don’t
Marriage is... I don’t know. Find your own truth! by Elinor Jones I Do...Until I Don’t starts with a brilliant suggestion: Marriage should be a seven-year contract, with an option to renew. This way,...
View ArticleThe Hip-Hop Fairy Tale of Patti Cake$
The bling was in her heart all along! by Suzette Smith As they do in every film, things really pick up in the graveyard. That’s where Patti Dumbrowski (Danielle Macdonald) wheels her sedated...
View ArticleThe City’s Now Using “No Camping” Signs to Deter Campers from Parks
And it might be working? by Dirk VanderHart WITH ITS homeless population on the rise, and following a steep increase in people living in RVs and other vehicles, the City of Portland turned to a new...
View ArticleCounty Commissioner Lori Stegmann Got a Controversial Flag Removed from the...
Here’s why. by Dirk VanderHart LAST WEEK, Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese sparked controversy among some local law enforcement officers when he removed a “Thin Blue Line” flag from a break room in...
View ArticleHall Monitor: Back on Hoyt Street
Officials are eying an Old Town warehouse for shelter space. Will this time be different? by Dirk VanderHart IT HASN'T been easy to keep track of Portland’s homeless shelters over the last two...
View ArticleVirtuous Pie: Fake (Cheese) News
Yes, Portland, there IS an edible gluten-free pizza. by Andrea Damewood Things I saw on my visits to Virtuous Pie, the new vegan pizza place on Southeast Division: a white lady with unicorn-colored...
View ArticleThe Jell-O Shot Mega List
Because you demanded it: Jell-O shots. by Ellen Freeman What is humanity’s fascination with the Jell-O shot? The titillation of spiking a childhood fave with booze? The delight of having a drink and...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor
“I think the pig, Johnny, is cheating!” THAT’LL DO, PIGRE: “The Mercury’s Cutest Pet Photo Contest” [Feature, Aug 9], in which readers voted for Portland’s cutest pet, and the past two weeks of Letters...
View ArticleFrom Slacktivism to Activism
Resistance events for the week of August 30-September 5. by Emilly Prado WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30Ink & Drink for Girls Inc. Every month dozens of artists come together to raise funds for a rotating...
View ArticleThis Week’s Featured I, Anonymous!
“My question is WHY???” by Anonymous You took a sharp object and scratched my car from stem to stern. WHY??? It’s not an SUV, a BMW, a Jaguar, a Prius, or anything fancy. It’s not new. It was legally...
View ArticleWhat’s She Mad About Now?
Does your neighborhood have a Nazi problem? by Courtenay Hameister They say if you see one cockroach, that’s a sign there are hundreds nearby. So if the Shitshow in Charlottesville and the continuing...
View ArticleThe Mercury’s Fall Arts & Culture Guide
The Only Guide You’ll Need to the Best of This Season’s Finest Books, Visual Art, and NPR Hosts Singing Songs by Megan Burbank Maybe it’s because I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and am comforted by...
View ArticleLost Decade’s Rock and Roll and Children’s T-Shirts
Manu Berelli and Glenn Henrickson’s homegrown design empire. by Mamie Stevenson “There’s no story in this,” Manu Berelli tells me over coffee as I sit between him and his creative partner, Glenn...
View ArticleLocal Essentials for TBA
Because art isn’t really a once-a-year kind of thing. by Megan Burbank This year, PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival will give us its requisite stretch of art at its best and worst and weirdest and most...
View ArticleVanessa Renwick, Accidental Visionary
The unlikely career of a Portland experimental filmmaker and installation artist. by Joshua James Amberson Early this year, on a clear winter night a week into Trump’s presidency, I took a bus deep...
View ArticleAri Shapiro is Coming Home!
The NPR Host Brings His Solo Show to Portland by Megan Burbank “People hear enough about American politics today,” says NPR’s Ari Shapiro, speaking from LA where he’s hosting All Things Considered....
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