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Tickets On Sale NOW for The 13th Annual HUMP! Film Festival!
by Dan Savage If you're wondering why there hasn't been a "Savage Love Letter of the Day" this week—or if you've seen me stumbling around Capitol Hill in a daze—it's because the HUMP! Jury met all day...
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Surprise! The GOP's New Health Care Bill Would Be Terrible For Oregon
by Megan Burbank FUCK.Getty Images / mphillips007Maybe you've heard: The GOP is donning wax wings yet again with its latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Though marginally more...
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So Long, Grand Juries
by Doug Brown ANOTHER BELIEVER / CC 3.0Big changes are coming to Multnomah County’s most high-profile criminal cases, but nobody knows how much strain they’ll put on the court system.This summer, the...
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Another Shelter in Old Town Wouldn't Break City Planning Promises, Ted...
by Dirk VanderHart Doug BrownA new 200-bed homeless shelter would not represent a "significant expansion of services" in Old Town, Mayor Ted Wheeler's office now says. Citing the recent departure of a...
View ArticleMaybe too much caffeine, left turner?
by Anonymous The "you were there first" courtesy applies to four way stops. You seem to think it applies to all driving situations. While I admire your bravery in repeatedly beating an old man to the...
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by Anonymous Hey angry redneck dude that snapped when I merged from the ‘left turn only’ lane, The sermon you delivered after chasing me down and blocking me in at the bank was a waste of your time....
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The Portland Arts Tax is Legal, State Supreme Court Finds
by Dirk VanderHart Danielle ChenetteThe Portland Arts Tax has big problems, but it's not unconstitutional. In what should amount to the final say in the matter, the Oregon Supreme Court this morning...
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9 things to do for September 21 by Mercury Staff Future Islands, Oh Rose Baltimore synth-poppers Future Islands return to Portland in support of The Far Field, the eagerly awaited follow-up to their...
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Things to Do This Weekend: September 22-24
by Mercury Staff October is peeking around the corner (because October is a creepy month, and that's how creepers do), but September still has a lot of stuff to squeeze into this weekend before the...
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Good Morning, News: Grand Juries, the Arts Tax, and Landslides in the Gorge
by Doug Brown Good morning, Portland. I hope you've been enjoying the cloud-and-rain-based smalltalk recently. Let's click these links.First up is this week's feature: "Wildfire Diaries: Three Days in...
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The Best Entries From Our Andrew W.K. Pizza Party Coloring Contest 🍕
by Bri Brey This month we ran a pretty cool promotion. We asked folks in Portland to color an awesome illustration of Andrew W.K. and return it to any Sizzle Pie location to be entered to win a pizza...
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There Are Only Two Worthwhile Things That Remain On This Corrupted and Fallen...
by Erik Henriksen And here is a trailer for a Wes Anderson movie about dogs.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Let's Chat About Feast, Bay-bee!
by MJ Skegg Aaron Barnett of St. Jack/La Moule at Smoked.Andrea DamewoodAnother Feast has come and gone, but we'd be remiss not to do a recap chat where we discuss the strengths, weaknesses, and burps...
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle Is Bloated and Stupid. But It’s Pretty Fun, Too!
by Ned Lannamann The first Kingsman movie shouldn’t have worked half as well as it did. Essentially James Bond cosplay, Kingsman: The Secret Service was based on a comic by Mark Millar and Dave...
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Daniel Norgren Brings His Folksy Blues Stateside
by Ben Salmon DANIEL NORGREN Americana, Swedish-style.PETRA NORGRENIf you dig into singer/songwriter Daniel Norgren’s background, it’s not hard to trace the roots of his strong independent...
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Put a Little Cocktail in Your Beer, and Vice Versa, at Shandytown
by Josh Jardine The next time someone asks you if you'd like a "shandy," they probably aren't asking about some new, weird sex act. (Probably. I don't know who you run with with.) No, a shandy is a...
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Always the Rando, Never the Boyfriend
How does he escape the hookup vortex? by Dan Savage I am a 27-year-old gay male living in Seattle. I have been in the hookup scene basically since I was 18 years old. At that time I was hooking up...
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Television Plays Portland for the First Time Since 1978
by Ned Lannamann TELEVISION Sun 9/24 Aladdin Theater High Road TouringIt’s mostly happenstance that Television got called a punk band, but while they were scene figureheads during the punk explosion...
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Portland's Almost Certainly Not Getting an MLB Team, But Let's Speculate Anyway
by Doug Brown It's time to bump up the likelihood that Portland will be home to a Major League Baseball team in the future from .0001 percent to .001 percent. Things are looking up!"Portland would be...
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Disaster Relief Events This Weekend in RESISTANCE & SOLIDARITY
by Emilly Prado GettyIn the face of natural (and teenmade) disasters around the globe, these good citizens are coming together to host a variety of benefits over the weekend. From rebuilding efforts...
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