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Oh, Look. There's a Dumb Gay Person On the Top of the NYT Homepage
by Dan Savage Sigh.Mr. Trump’s new immigration policy may be setting off protests around the country and raising eyebrows and objections among allies abroad. But at home, a large portion of the...
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Things to Do Tonight: Tuesday, Jan 31
by Mercury Staff Postcards from the Edge Meryl Streep closed out her amazing anti-Trump speech at the Golden Globes by quoting the wisdom of her departed friend Carrie Fisher: “Take your broken heart,...
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Indivisible Rally Today at Noon
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Don't have any lunch plans? You do now! The Oregon branch of Indivisible is meeting at Sen. Jeff Merkley's office TODAY (Tues, Jan 31, noon, 121 SW Salmon) to continue to make...
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ITMFA Update
by Dan Savage Last week I announced the relaunch of www.ImpeachTheMotherFuckerAlready.com—my 2006 Bush-era meme & fundraising effort—to raise money for organizations fighting the new Trump...
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Today's Hero of the Resistance: Woman Who Secretly Recorded GOP Conference
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Activists protest outside GOP retreat last week.Getty / Jessica KourkounisThe GOP is madder than a poodle in a pigpen over the currently unidentified hero of the resistance who...
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Man Accused of Flashing A Gun at a Pro-Immigrant Demonstrators in Downtown...
by Doug Brown Sergey AntonovLeft: MCSO. Right: Doug Brown***Update #2, 1/31/2017, 1:44 p.m***Antonov's arraignment is over, and he will not be prosecuted for Monday's incident. ***Update #1,...
View ArticleNo, You Still Can’t Smoke Weed in Public
No, you still can’t smoke weed in public, but things might change under Senate Bill 307. by Sean Clancy I see peoplesmoking pot on sidewalks and outside bars. Can I legally blaze in public yet?STILL...
View ArticleSavage Love
Advice Columnists Without Borders by Dan Savage I am a 26-year-oldheterosexual European man, I have been for four years in a monogamous relationship with my girlfriend. Recently she cheated on me.When...
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Things to Do Film: February 3-9
This week: Say Anything, Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, and the slow-motion delights of Ghost in the Shell. by Mercury Staff B-Movie Bingo: Traxx Your monthly opportunity to literally check off a bingo...
View ArticlePortland’s Pretty
A very good year for pretty. by Marissa Sullivan On what’s more or less my one-year anniversary of the Mercury allowing me to bring you Portland’s Pretty in print form, I’ve decided to bring it back...
View ArticleI, Anonymous
Attention Portlanders from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North...
View ArticleIt’s Happening Again, with 33 1/3’s Twin Peaks
If you like Angelo Badalamenti’s iconic score, you’ll like it! by Robert Ham FEW CURRENT DIRECTORS are better at deepening the impact of their visuals with the perfect song or bit of scoring than...
View ArticleSarah Manguso’s Book of Dread
300 Arguments you’ll either love or hate. by Joshua James Amberson OVER THE PAST decade, author Sarah Manguso has become known for her taut, strangely singular memoirs that balance emotional...
View ArticleIf You’ve Worked Ever Retail, Third Rail Has Your Number
The Flick captures a shifting film industry from small-town New England. by Megan Burbank MICHAEL J. FOX to Britney Spears: This is the format of the six-degrees-of-separation movie trivia game that...
View ArticleTrumped Towers
One more thing the new president’s throwing into chaos: Portland’s affordable housing market. by Dirk VanderHart IN A PORTLAND that’s rapidly pricing out its poorest residents, the orange and gray...
View ArticleFour Years of This Shit
Protests, punches, and arrests in Trump’s first days by Doug Brown IT'S BEEN a dizzying week and a half since Donald Trump was sworn in. It’s been chaotic in Portland, too, as the city and county try...
View ArticleHall Monitor: Cleaning the Baton
City Hall’s chaotic. Can Portland’s newest leaders change that? by Dirk VanderHart AFTER REPEAT outbursts at City Hall last week, I wrote online that Ted Wheeler’s honeymoon as mayor was over.Wheeler’s...
View ArticleMore Illumination, Please
Lantern is good, but not quite ready to lead the way. by Andrea Damewood TWO YOUNG MEN, seemingly on a very early date, sat near me on a recent visit to Lantern Lounge. Searching the menu, they...
View ArticleThis Week in Vaginas
A special memo from the new administration to world health organizations. by Courtenay Hameister MemorandumTo: Worldwide Health Organizations Receiving AidFrom: The US Department of Health and Human...
View ArticleLush Life
Of gruits, Otis Redding, and alternative facts. by Brian Yaeger To-may-to. To-maw-to.Fish. Ghoti (George Bernard Shaw’s alleged, alternate spelling).Trump will Make America Great Again. Trump...
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