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Okay, But How Are You Supposed to Clean the Ash Off Your Car?
by Megan Burbank It feels like we are living inside Dante's Peak.Getty / DutchSceneryIs your car covered in ash in the wake of the fire in the Gorge? Same here. And while certainly the least of our...
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No, Roger Stone Is Not a Cannabis Ally
by Josh Jardine JOE RAEDLE / GETTY IMAGESAmerican essayist and author Charles Dudley Warner once said, “Politics makes strange bedfellows.” This may be more true now than ever—it seems increasingly...
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In Twin Peaks: The Return, David Lynch has Created a Fiction with Consequences
We’ve now seen Lynch at his most cynical. by Daniel J. Cecil Matthias Nareyek/Getty ImagesThe following contains spoilers. Read at your own risk.It was all a dream. After 25 years, we’re left, again,...
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Coloring Contest: Win a Pizza Party with Andrew W.K.!
by Mercury Staff Courtesy andrewwk.comIf you love partying (and pizza), have we got the contest for you!Andrew W.K. is bringing "The Party Never Dies" tour to Portland on September 25 at the Wonder...
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by Anonymous So you HATE Trump and everything this administration stands for. You think our government is out of control and no longer represents the interests of the people. You march, you post...
View ArticleSidewalks, bike lanes, and roadways
by Anonymous Every time I go I've the top of the steel bridge, I have to dodge cyclists going both ways. There are two signs that are on each side that clearly read "bikes on roadway". I'm tired of...
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8 things to do for September 7 by Mercury Staff IT We all float down here. And you'll float too. You'll float too. YOU'LL FLOAT TOO! YOU'LL FLOAT TOO! WE ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE AND YOU'LL FLOA—Various...
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Good Morning, News: the I-5 Battle, the Eagle Creek Fire, and Still More...
by Doug Brown Good morning, Portland. Hopefully one day it won't seem like a post-apocalyptic hellhole outside. Matt WongFirst up is this week's feature (out in print as of yesterday) by Dirk...
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It's the Funniest Show of the Year... The Undisputable Geniuses of Comedy!
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey It’s back! The biggest night of Portland comedy is returning to Revolution Hall on Saturday, September 16!It’s the Portland Mercury’s Undisputable Geniuses of Comedy 2017,...
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Things to Do This Weekend: September 8-10
by Mercury Staff This weekend might (maybe) be okay enough to go outside in, unless some new, unforeseen flavor of apocalyptic vision descends upon our city. And even if it does—hell, that's what art...
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Weed Delivery Services Have Arrived
by Will Patterson Getty ImagesDear Pot Lawyer,Can I really get cannabis delivered to my home?You can! Home delivery is legal on the state level, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s legal in every...
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Former Top Aide to Chloe Eudaly Has a New Job—and an Atypical Paycheck—in Two...
by Dirk VanderHart Dave AustinCity of PortlandIt took a while, but Commissioner Chloe Eudaly's office finally found a way to pay a high-ranking aide the money it had promised: By giving him an...
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Drinks Enthusiast Karen Locke’s New Book is the Key to Portland’s Distilling...
by Chad Walsh Karen LockeSo-Min Kang PhotographyKaren Locke is pacing herself.When I met with her to talk about her new book—High-Proof PDX: A Spirited Guide to Portland’s Craft Distilling Scene—she...
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A Shake Up at the City's Office of Neighborhood Involvement has Managers...
by Dirk VanderHart The axe finally fell at the city's Office of Neighborhood Involvement on Wednesday. In a shake-up that had been expected for months, three managerial spots within the troubled...
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Is It an Open Relationship or Is It Blackmail?
Open for me, closed for thee. by Dan Savage I am a 29-year-old married gay man. My husband is about ten years my senior, and we have a great relationship in almost all the important ways. The one...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates's "The First White President" Is Required Reading, No Matter...
Future historians will look back on the clarity and style of Coates's writing with deep gratitude. by Sean Nelson Just when you thought you'd never read another Trump take...Though he is perfectly...
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Good Morning, News: The World is Falling Apart, Portland's Water is At Risk,...
by Dirk VanderHart (Photo by NOAA GOES Project via Getty Images)NATURAL DISASTER RUNDOWN: Hurricane Irma is the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. She's knocked out Puerto Rico's...
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12 things to do for September 8 by Mercury Staff TBA:17 It’s time again for the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s annual Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) and its delirious stretch of rebuttals to...
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15 things to do for September 9 by Mercury Staff Taste of Latinoamérica The Portland Mercado is always an excellent place to spend a Saturday, and that goes double today when the vibrant Latino market...
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