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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Too Drunk To Swing
by Dan Savage My husband and I are newlyweds who have been together for almost five years. Over the course of our relationship, we have discussed the potential of bringing other partners into the...
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Grand Jury Clears Officers Who Shot 56-year-old Man Last Month
by Doug Brown Don PerkinsThe two Portland Police officers who shot a 56-year-old man in an apparent mental health crisis were cleared of any criminal wrongdoing by a grand jury yesterday, the Portland...
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This Week's Style Events
by Elizabeth Mollo Bridge & Burn will launch their Spring 2017 collection on Thursday. Go scope out their newest duds at their flagship store, and while you're at it take in a gin tasting with...
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Pickathon Starlight Series, Episode 6: Yemen Blues
by Ned Lannamann Ravid Kahalani of Yemen BluesTodd CooperPickathon's Starlight Series continues with this scorching performance from Yemen Blues, the Tel Aviv-based band that was for my money the...
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Good Morning, News: Ask Yourself this, Portland—Do You Feel Lucky?
by Dirk VanderHart It is not the scent of clover that wafts over the near-spring breeze this St. Patrick's Day, but a rancid wind from DC. Someone should ring in the day by bashing Donald Trump's...
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Things to Do This Weekend: March 17-19
by Mercury Staff It's often called Amateur Hour, but it doesn't have to play that way. The weekend starts with St. Patrick's Day, but it doesn't have to end there, in a green-beer induced blackout...
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Timbers v. Houston Match Preview
by Abe Asher Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland TimbersSurprisingly enough, Providence Park's second game of the 2017 MLS season will be a battle of unbeatens on Saturday night — the 2-0-0 Portland Timbers...
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Marvel's Iron Fist Debuts on Netflix; Reviews are... Ahem. Not So Good.
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey MARVEL'S IRON FIST: Hahahahahahaaaaa!!! NO.Courtesy NetflixIt's true, you have to eat a lot of crap to be a comic book fan—primarily in the form of decades old racism, and...
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Cinema 21's Film Noir Festival Matches the Mood of 2017
by Ned Lannamann After the trauma of World War II, Americans wanted to take shelter in the blithely inoffensive music and film of the late ’40s and ’50s. And yet the darker undercurrents, the...
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Green Noise Records Is Changing Hands and Locations
by Ned Lannamann Local punk/indie record shop Green Noise Records is moving. It’s also changing ownership, as current owner Ken Cheppaikode is leaving Portland for Wisconsin. This is a bittersweet...
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Put Down the Green Beer and Enjoy a Quiet Pint with Clannad
by Ciara Dolan CLANNAD Family band.SUZANNE CROMPTONFor many Americans, March 17 is the day to cut loose and LARP Flogging Molly’s sloppy anthem “Drunken Lullabies” while chugging green beer and...
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Why Should Oregon Care About Legal Weed in California?
by Sean Clancy GETTY / REX_WHOLSTERDear Pot Lawyer,What’s happening in the California cannabis scene? And why should we care in Oregon?There are literal tons of cannabis-related activities in our...
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SHOCKER: Trump's Budget Proposal Would Axe Millions Portland Uses For...
by Dirk VanderHart It was huge news in November when Portland passed its first-ever property tax bond for affordable housing. The landslide victory meant the city would be able to borrow more than...
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Don't Miss the I, Anonymous Show... Monday Night!
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey One of the funnest (and funniest!) comedy shows in town in undoubtedly The I, Anonymous Show, featuring rants and confessions written by YOU, anonymously, for the Mercury’s I,...
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This Week On Nextdoor: "Can I Borrow A Lemon?"
by Bri Brey Fucking Nextdoor. A hub for every person in Portland with too much time on their hands, something super lame to get rid of, or a suspicion that every person that walks in their...
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The Portland Art Museum Responds to Proposed Cuts to National Arts Funding
by Megan Burbank Donald Trump's proposed chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts. (Jokes! He just wants to cut the whole thing!) Germanovich / GettyIf you care about art, you know that the...
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Okay, Okay, We Were All Wrong About Kristen Stewart
by Marc Mohan I don’t think I’m unique in having an opinion about the acting talents of Kristen Stewart that has fluctuated over the years. My personal K-Stewmometer, though, has tended toward extreme...
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Timbers Explode In Second Half, Beat Houston 4-2
by Abe Asher Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland TimbersAfter breezing past Minnesota and LA to start the season, it looked as if the Portland Timbers might cruise again on Saturday night at Providence Park...
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Things to Do This Week: March 20-23
by Mercury Staff You're reading this, so you survived St. Patrick's weekend. Maybe you're bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Maybe you're stumbling around like that one dude on Normandy Beach at the...
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Good Morning, News: FBI Admits Investigation into Trump Campaign's Possible...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY Confirms there is an investigation into Trump campaign's accused collusion with Russia.Justin Sullivan GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! The mirror stares you in...
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