County Inmate Sets Fire to Jail Cell, Sending Two Corrections Deputies to the...
by Doug Brown Zachary PerkinsMCSOZack Perkins is a serial car thief. He's now accused of being a repeat arsonist, booked for setting a fire in the Multnomah County Detention Center that sent two...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Exiling a Roommate's Ex
by Dan Savage This is a relationship question. My roommate and I are both third-year graduate students at the same school (but different departments). We also went to the same school for undergrad and...
View Article13TH ANNUAL HUMP FILM LINEUP ANNOUNCED!
by Dan Savage We were blown away by the films submitted for HUMP! this year—which the HUMP! Jury very much enjoyed—so it wasn't easy for us to decide which films were going to make it into the...
View ArticlePortland's Chipping in $50,000 to Help Local DACA Recipients
by Dirk VanderHart The City of Portland is spending $50,000 to help DACA recipients re-apply for protections and get legal advice. In a unanimous vote this afternoon, the Portland City Council...
View ArticleCongressional Republicans Are Pushing a Disingenuous 20-Week Abortion Ban,...
by Megan Burbank Why legislate women's health when you could legislate this?Martin Barraud / GettyIf you were still reeling from this week's news out of Las Vegas, you may have missed the House's...
View ArticleCockroach Shit
by Anonymous For 8 years, Republicans claimed that racism was over. All the horrible things that were said about President Obama and First Lady Michelle weren't racist, it was just free speech. The...
View ArticleMove Over? Right...
by Anonymous Hey Tri-Met, I'm no longer giving your drivers the benefit of the doubt. Too many times have your drivers almost ran into me while aggressively merging into traffic. I'm not talking about...
View ArticleGun Nuts
by Anonymous All these people who have very unshakable and fierce stances on gun control, restrictions, regulations, what have you. I agree, not doubt, but thanks for trying, and thanks for portraying...
View ArticleGood Morning, News: BuzzFeed Busts Breitbart, a Firebug Inmate, and Danielle...
by Dirk VanderHart After an OPB interview of new Police Chief Danielle Outlaw teased out that she had appeared on Wheel of Fortune in college, we made it our mission yesterday to find footage. Here's...
View ArticleAin't That America?
by Anonymous I was raised humble, to have humility. Be thankful for money or gifts. Even try to reject it. It's there but a lot is gone. A main reason is because I moved to the mainland. Holding the...
View ArticleThings to Do Friday!
11 things to do for October 6 by Mercury Staff The Weeknd, Gucci Mane, Nav Despite some arguably problematic drug- and sex-studded lyrics, The Weeknd—AKA Abel Tesfaye—puts out high-quality alternative...
View ArticleThings to Do Saturday!
11 Things to Do for October 7 by Mercury Staff FrightTown For 13 years the ghoul-lovers of FrightTown have been putting on the most technologically advanced, pants-shitting haunted house in the...
View ArticleThings to Do Sunday!
8 things to do for October 8 by Mercury Staff Popovich Comedy Pet Theater I'm going to let Popovich Comedy Pet Theater speak for itself. Billing itself as a “European-style circus extravaganza”...
View ArticleTop Chef Contestant Teams Up for Taco Tuesdays with Other Top Chefs
by Chad Walsh Smokehouse Tavern's BJ Smith Rolls Out a New Taco Tuesdays ProgramGreg GourdetThis month, Smokehouse Tavern’s BJ Smith, a contestant on the most recent season of Bravo’s Top Chef,...
View ArticleAsk Benny Henderson, the Child Detective™
by Benny Henderson ONECLEARVISION / GETTY IMAGESDear Benny Henderson, the Child Detective:I’ve been happily married (or so I thought) for 17 years. But now I strongly suspect my husband is cheating on...
View ArticleThe Mountain Between Us: It's a Metaphor, and Also an Actual Mountain
by Ben Coleman How much time do you want to spend with Idris Elba and Kate Winslet on a mountain? That’s the only question you need to ask yourself here. “I’d listen to Morgan Freeman read the phone...
View ArticleVeg Week: Half-Price Vegan Entrées at Noraneko, Off The Griddle, Papa G's, &...
by Mercury Staff Welcome to the Portland Mercury’s first-ever Veg Week—a week designed not only for vegans and vegetarians, but for all Portlanders who want to enjoy some of the best, most inventive...
View ArticleThis Weekend's Style Event: Bra Fitting!
by Elizabeth Mollo Oh Baby LingerieOh Baby Lingerie understands that finding a bra that fits can be hard, especially if you have no idea what size you REALLY are. (I can attest to this, the idiots at...
View ArticleFirst Time at a Dispensary? 2016 Best Budtender Winner Gives Some Advice
by Will Patterson ROXANA GONZALEZ / GETTY IMAGESDear Pot Lawyer,What do I need to know before I visit my first dispensary?From the legal side, remember that you must be over 21. The dispensary is...
View ArticleFrom Portland Chefs, Two Surprisingly Accessible New Cookbooks—And One...
by Andrea Damewood Six Seasons: A New Way with VegetablesAJ MEEKER AND LAURA DARTIf there’s a piece of advice I could give someone who wants to tackle a recipe from a local Portland chef, it would be...
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