Zach Galifianakis Returns in "Between Two Ferns" with Guest... Hillary Clinton?
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Just when you thought you'd never again be blessed by an episode of "Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifiankis" there's a brand new one, and it's guest starring Hillary Clinton....
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Record Review: Mic Capes, Concrete Dreams
by Jenni Moore ALEXANDER WRIGHTLAST MONTH Portland hip-hop’s most relevant players packed the Yanagida shop on Mississippi to finally hear Mic Capes’Concrete Dreams. During the listening party, Capes...
View ArticlePre-Roll Me Another One
by Anonymous I guess I haven't read the fine print. There must be a reason that pre-rolled joints for sale are ridiculously large, and "smokable" only by a largish group, or by someone with yogic...
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Chocolate + Beer = Choktoberfest
by Heather Arndt Anderson Missing Oktoberfest already? Here's another way to celebrate the best beer, chocolate, and German food that Portland has to offer. Rub elbows with Portland's local...
View ArticleKGW's Questionable Interview with Joel Magid Shows Disregard For Survivors of...
by Megan Burbank Joel Magid, the Portland musician who earlier this month announced via Facebook that he'd sexually assaulted someone appeared in an interview on KGW, and it's bad. Magid admits to the...
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Daddy Issues
by Dan Savage I'm a gay guy in my twenties who is reluctantly attracted to older guys. I don't ever see myself marrying someone who is twenty years older than me, I could never be in a public...
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Trump Clarifies He Was Just Opportunistically Trying to Get People to Stop...
by Christopher Frizzelle The face he made right after saying Obama was born in the United States last week. Really looks contrite, huh?In case Trump didn't seem sincere to you last week when he said,...
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Portland May Be Less Diverse than Salt Lake City
by Charles Mudede Though Portland is very white, and getting whiter, it is not all bad news for blacks.Atmosphere1/Shutterstock.comPortland may be the whitest big city in America, but unlike Seattle,...
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Hillary's Poll Numbers Are Improving (But There's No Improving the Electoral...
by Dan Savage Hillary Clinton.Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.comSensible people everywhere spent the last week freaking out about the election. Donald Trump was closing the gap to Hillary Clinton in the...
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Things To Do Tonight 9/22
by Mercury Staff Northwest Hesh Fest: Day 1 Believe it or not, our trip around the sun has already brought us to another Northwest Hesh Fest. The first night features local kingpins Red Fang three...
View ArticleDon't Be the Trump of Portland
by Anonymous This one goes out to everyone still clinging to a hardcore "locals only" exclusivity dogma. I moved to Portland just over six months ago, and I didn't come because my job moved me or...
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UPDATED: Protest Today at KGW Following Insensitive Interview About Sexual...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey From the now deleted KGW interview with Joel MagidDoug BrownUPDATE 1 pm: Another protest against KGW has been scheduled for "2 pm-whenever" outside of the KGW studios on SW...
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Things to Do This Weekend!
Things to do for Sept 23-25 by Mercury Staff If you're looking to set that mind free this weekend, you got plenty of options on just how you wanna do it. There's a Hesh Fest going on if you're looking...
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Scout Forages for New Terrain as Inner Southeast's 11th Brewery
by Brian Yaeger Scout Beer now openBrian YaegerReflecting on the number of breweries operating in Inner Southeast brings to mind a bit by Emo Philips titled “Most States” where the spasmodic comedian...
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Good Morning, News: Yahoo Hacked! Contempt In Oregon Standoff Trial? And...
by Erik Henriksen YAHOO HACK This is how it happened!YAHOO HACK: The personal data of half a billion Yahoo users was compromised in 2014, the company admitted, adding that the culprit was likely "a...
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Remembering the Man Behind Phantasm
by Edmund Stone This Saturday, September 24, the Hollywood Theatre is screening the classic horror film Phantasm. Unfortunately, I won’t be in Portland that evening, though I wish so much I could...
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Timbers v. Houston Match Preview
by Abe Asher Troy Taormina-USA TODAY SportsWith Jack Jewsbury's announcement on Sunday that this will be his last MLS season, the rest of 2016 has taken on a more urgent and immediate importance for a...
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Where to Watch the First Presidential Debate in Portland
by Mercury Staff There are multiple reasons for you to seek out the first Presidential Debate as opposed to, say, spending the night buried under thirty blankets like a small child hoping the monster...
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Things to Eat & Drink This Weekend!
by Bri Brey Fall is for Ramen: Organic Ramen Pop-Up Series Umi Organic and Broth Bar team up for a first-come-first-served fall pop-up series, pairing bone broths by Salt Fire & Time's Tressa...
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Seven Samurai > The Magnificent Seven > The Magnificent Seven: 2016 Edition
by Erik Henriksen Elmer Bernstein's rousing theme for 1960’s The Magnificent Seven doesn’t turn up in the The Magnificent Seven: 2016 Edition until the end credits. But when it finally starts playing,...
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