Hall Monitor: Amanda Fritz’s Next Big Thing
Fritz has a new assignment, and designs on a multi-million-dollar project. by Dirk VanderHart COMMISSIONER AMANDA FRITZ has played things notably low-key since learning earlier this month she’d lost...
View ArticleLaurie Frankel’s Fabulous Child
In This Is How It Always Is, the Northwest Author Combines Domestic Drama and Trans Kid Fairy Tale by Rich Smith We learn a lot about the Walsh-Adams family before they arrive in Seattle.Rosie and...
View ArticleShocked, I Am Shocked!
New Order bassist Peter Hook reveals rock band did lots of drugs and sex. by Suzette Smith Peter Hook opens his 700-page New Order tell-all autobiography Substance with a story about the first time he...
View ArticlePan Pizza Isn’t Square
Any pizza is personal if you try hard enough. by Andrea Damewood THE COMBINATION of my nerdiness and extreme food-motivated personality made me the master of our elementary school reading...
View ArticleHow I’d Wine and Dine President Trump
How I’d wine and dine President Trump in Portland. by Thomas Ross AS UNTHINKABLE as it still is, a new sun has risen over America, and like the old sun, it’s huge, orange, and thinks everything...
View ArticleYou’re in a Cult, Call Your Dad!
Carnivora’s jump scares and abject sorrow. by Megan Burbank THEATRE VERTIGO’S FERTILE GROUND offering, Carnivora, opens with a lady climbing out of a burlap sack and screaming bloody murder, and the...
View ArticleThe Inauguration Diaries
Four days in the nation’s capital dodging tear gas, rabid misogyny, and casual racism. by Sydney Brownstone HEIDI GROOVER AND SYDNEY BROWNSTONE: A lying, bigoted sexual predator is about to become...
View ArticleThe Party Review
In which I attended a party in Lake Oswego, and didn’t get shot. by Daniel Martin Austin A hipster party in Lake Oswego? Why not?This would be my second time in Lake Oswego, and the first time on...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor
“If you supported Trump, you voted against the United States, you stupid fuck.” NEVER FORGETRE: “As Donald Trump Becomes President, Portland’s Streets Will Be Chaotic” [News, Jan 18], featuring an...
View ArticleI, Anonymous
Snow thanks to you. by Anonymous SOME THANK-YOUS to people in the snowstorm: Thank you to all the cashiers, baristas, bartenders, and snowplow drivers. Thank you to the delivery drivers and PGE crews....
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Good Morning, News: Immigrants and Sanctuary Cities Under Attack, Trump...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Every man wants a woman that can always keep him in the mood. And I'm that kind of girl, so this is what I tell my dude. LET'S GO TO PRESS.Courtesy...
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The Parent Trap!
How do we teach our daughter to not misplace her phone? by Erik Henriksen iStock / Katie_MartynovaMy wife and I got our 12-year-old daughter an iPhone, so we know where she is and she can call for...
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Drugs, Cults, Space Suits, and the Films of Vu Pham
by Suzette Smith They're all bad people. I’d like to say that the characters in Portland-based director Vu Pham’s short films are “morally complex”—but really, just about every single one of them is...
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Honeymoon Over? Ted Wheeler Was Just Forced to Shut Down a City Council...
by Dirk VanderHart Demonstrator Mimi German, foreground, strategizes with others in a darkened council chambers this morning, after briefly shutting down the scheduled meeting. Dirk VanderHartIt took...
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Things to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff Shy Girls, The Last Artful, Dodgr After backing up Aminé on The Tonight Show, slaying an appearance on Sway’s Universe, and releasing a string of singles (“Oofda,” and “Jazz Crimes”...
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Ten Great American/Oregonian Beer Fest Factual Facts
by Brian Yaeger In this world where Up can be Down, Black can be White, and a thimbleful of supporters can be stated as the largest crowd at an un-president-ted inauguration, must we adjust to this...
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Heads up: Police Chief Mike Marshman is Still on the Job, So Protests Are...
by Doug Brown Activists called for Police Chief Mike Marshman's ouster following Friday night's protestDoug BrownA number of Portland activists upset with the Portland Police Bureau's heavy-handed...
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Solange Is Headlining This Year's Soul'd Out Music Festival
by Ciara Dolan GIVING US some of the best news we’re likely to hear all week, this morning Portland's annual Soul'd Out Music Festival announced its 2017 lineup, and—take a deep breath before you read...
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Mary Tyler Moore, Dead at 80
by Sean Nelson RIP MTMMary Tyler Moore, the brilliant TV and film actor, comedian, producer, and impresario, died today at the age of 80, following a long battle with diabetes. She was Laura Petrie,...
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Trumphoria: Dow Jones Industrial Average Hits 20,000
by Charles Mudede "Let's do this crash lesson again."The Big ShortOn the night Trump was elected, the Dow Jones was at 18,000 points. Today, it hit 20,000 points. That is a 2,000-point increase. That...
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