This Week's Style Events
by Elizabeth Mollo Lots of stuff happening this weekend!If you are not yet aware of Little Boxes you either A) have just moved here, or B) have never stepped foot in any of our locally owned...
View ArticleFloating Room's Sunless Reflects a Distorted Reality
by Ciara Dolan FLOATING ROOM The world is not everyone’s oyster.Hannah Cantrell “OH MY SAD GOD/Look at what we’ve become/I thought I believed/But was I the only one?”Sung by Floating Room’s Maya...
View ArticleComputer Scientist Explains Why Electoral College May Have Been Hacked
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey iStockAs you read yesterday, the New York magazine reported on a group of computer scientists and lawyers who have been privately lobbying Hillary Clinton to contest the...
View ArticleWhat Happened?!
by Anonymous I don't understand. Lately it seems the shit hit the proverbial fan and exploded, splattering toxic shrapnel everywhere. People are in survival mode. Their mood swings can make you wind...
View ArticleThe New Rules for Testing Cannabis Concentrates Are Causing Headaches
by Josh Jardine ISTOCK / JDAWNINKON YOUR LAST trip to the dispensary, you might have noticed that some of your favorite non-flower cannabis products are missing. That pain-relieving topical you count...
View ArticleUpcoming Portland Resistance & Rallies
by Mercury Staff GABRIEL GREENWe've written about resisting Trump by donating to crucial organizations, and things you can do now to not feel powerless in these tough times, but if you want to get to...
View ArticleThings to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff YG, RJ, Kamaiyah, Sad Boy Even when you’re furiously insisting that Donald Trump isn’t your president, the chants can get uninspired. The hard miles tick by, confrontations with...
View ArticleParking Isn't Going to Be Required at Portland Condos/Apartments Anymore
by Dirk VanderHart Portland's years-long experiment with parking requirements ends in 2018. A little more than three years after Portland City Council troubled smart-growth advocates by forcing...
View ArticleFea Calls for a Revolution
by Emilly Prado FEA High-quality ferocity.Ray Tattoo BoyTHE MEMBERS OF San Antonio’s Fea—an acronym for “fuck ’em all” and the Spanish word for “ugly girl”—play commanding and unabashedly political...
View ArticleRussell Courtier, The White Supremacist Accused of Killing Larnell Bruce,...
by Doug Brown Russell Courtier is accused of running down and killing Larnell Bruce in August. He was just indicted for a 2015 assaultLevi HastingsRussell Courtier—the 38-year-old member of the...
View ArticleBicycle Mansplainer
by Anonymous To the white dude, day before Thanksgiving, biking through Rose Quarter and up Williams: You are a fucking sexist. It was sexist to patronizingly tell me "just wait a few seconds" when I...
View ArticleIt's Not A VIP Club, You Asshole!
by Anonymous I was the open-minded Catholic dude who wrote about you back in February being the Evangelical street preacher who was preaching to none other than yourself at Pioneer Square as people...
View ArticleI Am Thankful That DB Cooper Fans Are Idiots!
by Anonymous Let me be clear on one thing. I've always have had a fascination with the DB Cooper case ever since I first read about him in high school that since then, I've been trying to write a...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Let's Give Thanks for Threesomes!
by Dan Savage A few weeks ago, my live-in boyfriend (let's call him James) sat down next to me after a particularly stressful week of grad school and said "I have a hard question. A former sex partner...
View ArticleHow to Get Through Thanksgiving at Your Right-Wing Family's House
by Ansel Herz Levi HastingsIf you hang with your right-wing family this Thanksgiving, you're likely to hear and experience tacit or outright racism. You're going to hear praise for the misogynist in...
View ArticleMoana Review: Need Hope for the Next Generation? Look No Further.
by Jenni Moore If you need hope for the next generation, look no further than Disney’s latest. Somewhere on a South Pacific island where natural elements have literal spirits, Moana (voiced by Auli’i...
View ArticleBad Santa 2 Review: Hey, At Least It's Better Than Love Actually
by Ned Lannamann A Christmas movie doesn’t have to be that good to make it into the yearly holiday rotation. (Cases in point: Elf. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Love Actually. Don’t @ me.) So...
View ArticleGood Morning, News: Bad Cops, Canadian Baseball, and Ann Coulter, Probably
by Dirk VanderHart Hope you're drying out—metaphorically and physically—from a drenched Thanksgiving, y'all. While you were avoiding the subject of our incoming president over a bird, a bunch of your...
View ArticleThings to Do This Weekend!
Things to Do for November 25-27 by Mercury Staff Black Friday doesn't have to be the soul-demolishing corporate thresher you fling yourself into headfirst. It doesn't. This weekend is proof the day...
View ArticleBehold the Portland Mercury's Unparalleled Coverage of Gilmore Girls
by Erik Henriksen Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life finally hits Netflix TODAY, and our Gilmore-obsessed office could not be more stoked. You're damn right we wrote about it!"Meet Me in Stars Hollow:...
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