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Good Morning, News: Portland Cops Kill a Man, City Battles Judge on Police...
by Dirk VanderHart Officer involved shooting in East Portland early this morning. Details are sketchy, but cops say they've killed a man in his 50s who emerged from a home toting a rifle, following a...
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No Faith in the Faithless: These “Heroic” Half-Measures are Doomed to Fail
by Bobby Roberts iStock/Bill OxfordThe Electoral College as designed by Alexander Hamilton is meant to be the last defense against a demagogue's ascension to our country's most powerful position. This...
View Article"Thrifty" Trump Cancels Air Force One Order; Twitter Hilariously Responds
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Today in stupid things that President-Elect Donald Trump said:Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4...
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Photos from the Thesis' Two-Year Anniversary at Kelly's Olympian, Thurs Dec 1
by Ciara Dolan The Last Artful, DodgrChristopher Garcia ValleChristopher Garcia ValleChristopher Garcia ValleLast Thursday monthly hip-hop showcase the Thesis celebrated its second anniversary at...
View ArticleWorthless Piss
by Anonymous Allright, so you were this young punk kid who decided to piss on a homeless guys tarp covering all his stuff. Your bootlicker friend thought it was funny and stood watching. The way all...
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Things to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff Ear Candy: Ice Queens, The Wild Body The holidays are upon us, so consider Ear Candy—the Mercury’s free monthly music showcase in partnership with Mississippi Studios—our first gift...
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2017 Grammy Nominations Announced: Beyoncé Gets Nine. Eight Each for Drake,...
by Sean Nelson Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year... It looks like another good year to be Beyoncé.The 2017 Grammy Award nominations were announced this morning. Leading the pack...
View ArticleFatalities In The War On Cars Are Never In Cars
by Dan Savage If a pedestrian jumped off a sidewalk, ran into the street, pulled a driver out of her car, and inflicted injuries so severe that the driver died moments later in the arms of a passing...
View ArticleMay Fiona Apple's "Trump's Nuts" Become the Holiday Classic It Deserves to Be
by Jennifer Campbell As much as I don't want to picture Trump's nuts in any context at all, including and especially dangling over an open flame, I hope this incisive, funny (and only slightly...
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by Anonymous in the tentnear the mountainyour head against memy arms around youhigh, happythis was itbreakfast and coffeestop along the hiketurn, hold and kiss this was itdriving somewhereyour hand in...
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Dear Amy Sherman-Palladino: Get it Together. Gilmore Girls is Not a Gritty...
by Megan Burbank Rory Gilmore deserved better than this.NetflixEds. Note: Spoilers for Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life are coming so don't say I didn't warn you.Anyone else feeling personally...
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How Trump Turned Christmas Films into Horror Films
by Charles Mudede It's a Wonderful Life if you’re rich and white, that is.My family was never into Christmas. We were just too African to really feel it. Christmas is a feeling. The gifts, the trees,...
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A Winter Storm's on the Way. Here Are Available Warming Shelters
by Dirk VanderHart The National Weather Service is warning that it'll be freezing tonight—and will only grow more inhospitable in coming days. "An unusually strong winter storm will bring mixed...
View ArticleAdvocates Are Making Their Strongest Pitch Yet for New Homeless Villages
The city’s top architects are on board. Will it matter? by Dirk VanderHart INA FRIGID ROOM off of North Mississippi, Mark Lakeman had come to give a pep talk.“We’re done playing around, and we’re...
View ArticleHigher Scrutiny Leads to Lower Morale For Local Cops
A new survey reveals a disconnect between the police bureau and reform efforts. by Doug Brown FOR A BUREAU that’s hemorrhaged employees and struggled to recruit new ones, the results of a survey of...
View ArticleHall Monitor—In Under the Wire
Facing serious time constraints, this city council faces its most hectic week ever. by Dirk VanderHart CITY COUNCIL dynamics are a tricky thing—presenting occasional glimpses of beauty and hilarity...
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2016’s first fatal police shooting. Reading Frenzy is closing. by Mercury Staff A PORTLAND POLICE officer killed an apparently armed man on Tuesday morning in East Portland’s Glenfair neighborhood,...
View ArticleJustice Delayed
Oregon is finally processing its rape kit backlog, but that’s just the beginning for changing the way we handle cases of sexual assault. by Megan Burbank Last spring, the Oregon Legislature passed two...
View ArticleAfuri’s High Concept, High Dollar Izakaya
Swank, ambitious Japanese outpost is a new chapter in Portland dining. by Andrea Damewood AFURI, the latest cult Japanese chain to hang a shingle in Portland, draws lines of tourists and locals alike...
View ArticleEat This!
Hot shit for the chilehead on your holiday shopping list. by Heather Arndt Anderson FUN-HATING Sylvester Graham called spicy foods “some of the most powerful of the class of artificial stimulants” and...
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