Dreamdecay’s Noisy Punk Is Strangely Catchy
Dreamdecay’s Yú is one of the most accessible heavy records in years. by Morgan Troper The first thing you’ll notice about Seattle punks Dreamdecay is that they are very loud.This was fully put into...
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Noteworthy shows for the week of September 20-26. SUPER PICKSTELEVISION (Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie) It’s mostly happenstance that Television got called a punk band, but while they were scene...
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9 things to do for September 20 by Mercury Staff The Cool Kids Patio Show The Doug Fir patio hosts one of the finest free stand-up showcases in town, paired perfectly with some of our city's best...
View ArticleGood Morning, News: Trump's Tantrum, Hurricane Maria Hits, and Portland Tells...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! How you doin' miss? My name is L, I'm from Queens. I heard about your man, he like to lace you with cream. LET'S GO TO PRESS.So Attorney General Jeff...
View ArticleWildfire Diaries
Three Days in Oregon During The Eagle Creek Fire by Martha Grover There is ash falling from the sky.Way back in the 1990s, years before I fell in love with him, my first boyfriend witnessed several...
View ArticleThe Arts Tax Is Broken
Now the city might tweak it without asking voters. by Dirk VanderHart THE PORTLAND ARTS TAX has underperformed and overspent.When voters approved the oft-derided $35 tax in 2012, they did so with the...
View ArticleHall Monitor: Wheeler’s Rosy Red Herrings
The mayor’s boosting a highway expansion, but does he have his facts straight? by Dirk VanderHart Last week marked a notable transformation: Mayor Ted Wheeler became a leading booster for the...
View ArticleFrom Slacktivism to Activism
Resistance events for the week of September 20-26. by Emilly Prado WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20Pizza Nightfor Rahab’s Sisters Devour slices of pizza in the name of Rahab’s Sisters, an organization that...
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Things To Do Film: Sept 22-28
Remembering Harry Dean Stanton with Alien and Repo Man. by Mercury Staff ★Alien Once upon the ’70s, before there were doll-eyed albino Michelin Men, before fanged vagina-mouth Rasta-monsters from...
View ArticleBarrett Martin Travels the World
In The Singing Earth, music’s the antidote to isolationist politics. by Robert Ham Of all the aggravations and outright horrors to befall the United States in the Trump administration’s first year,...
View ArticleComedy Has a Diversity Problem.
Take My Wife’s Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher know how to fix it. by Megan Burbank In a sea of white-guy-does-stand-up shows, Rhea Butcher and Cameron Esposito’s SeeSo series Take My Wife has been a...
View ArticleThe Wine Snob Myth
Wine Snobs? Nah, They’re Not a Real Thing by MJ Skegg There’s a wine called Just Fucking Good Wine. The name is supposed to help democratize wine—their marketing says “No [to] wine snobbism.” I...
View ArticleThe French Bistro Done Right
C’est Si Bon—It’s, er, trés bon. by MJ Skegg There’s nothing innovative or hip about C’est Si Bon, a small restaurant off Burnside, tucked behind Burnside Brewing. Heck, it’s not even new. But there’s...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor
“When you walk into a real dive bar, the first thing you should do is look around and see what everyone is drinking.” PORTLAND PROTIPSRE: “Newcomers’ Guide 2017” [Feature, Sept 13], our guide for...
View ArticleDon’t Walk Out of An Octoroon
Or you’ll miss the unsettling brilliance of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. by Megan Burbank If you’re not familiar with the content of Artists Repertory Theatre’s An Octoroon, the spare set and opening...
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Introducing Portland Veg Week! This fall, from October 9-14, your pals at the Mercury are teaming up with Portland Vegfest to present Veg Week—six days of some of Portland’s greatest vegetarian and...
View ArticleThanks for Stealing my Medicine!
by Anonymous Wow, plant thief, thanks so much for taking the time to use my ladder to crawl to the top of my roof in the middle of the night to throw my weed plants onto the ground and steal them. I...
View ArticleWe Get It, You are a Sock Puppet
by Anonymous Listen you supposed Justice warrior, I worked for the business owner you're accusing of sexual abuse, and while many of us who know him believe that he has probably harmed people, you are...
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Green Box's Specialty Cannabis Packages Give You a Buzz in a Box
by Josh Jardine Back in May, I previewed a unique start-up called Green Box (pdxgreenbox.com). To recap: Green Box curates cannabis and cannabis products for you based on your preferences, and then...
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There's No One Quite Like the Space Lady
by Ciara Dolan THE SPACE LADY Fri 9/22 Hollywood TheatreTERRI LOEWENTHALThere’s no one quite like the Space Lady. Susan Dietrich Schneider left her small Colorado hometown in the ’60s for San...
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