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Things To Do This Weekend!
Things to do for Sept 30-Oct 2 by Mercury Staff If there was a single word to describe the weekend, "representative," could be that word. There's Peaches representing sexual revolution. There's the...
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Funny things to do for the month of October by Chipp Terwilliger All Jane Comedy Festival The All Jane Comedy Festival returns for its 5th year, serving up performances from their first ever...
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How to eat, drink, and be merry for the month of October by Mercury Staff 2016 Handmade Bike and Beer Festival The annual party paying tribute to two of Portland's favorite pastimes: Riding bikes and...
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Timbers v. Colorado Match Preview
by Abe Asher Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY SportsThe Portland Timbers' road woes have finally caught up to them. Four days after failing to win on the road for the fifteenth consecutive time this MLS season,...
View ArticleFake Sleeper. Fake Everything.
by Anonymous You're such a phony. The way you pretend to be so, so, so exhausted after 5 hours of work. Just listening to you grunt and moan like your body is in such agony. From what? 5 hours of...
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“His Word Against Mine”: Stories of Sexual Assault from the Portland Music...
by Ciara Dolan MICHELA BUTTIGNOL[Editor’s Note: The following article includes descriptions of sexual assault and may be disturbing to certain readers.]Sexual assault in the local music community has...
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Oil! Spectacle! Explosions! The Strange Entertainment of Deepwater Horizon
by Ben Coleman DEEPWATER HORIZON"Hang on! My Hot Pockets are almost done!PETER BERG is an odd duck. He’s often written off as a journeyman director—an anti-auteur without any specific style or...
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Edward Scissorhands Made by Director Who Wants to Be True to White People
by Charles Mudede The director Tim Burton has finally explained why there are no black people (or people of color) in almost all his films. It's not that he dislikes blacks or anything like that, but,...
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: A Tweet Storm of Excellent Advice
by Dan Savage There are four or five hundred thousand emails in my inbox from straight guys asking why assholes get all the girls, why they keep getting friend-zoned, and why the girls who really...
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by Anonymous I'm a 32 year old married masculine man. By masculine I mean full beard, stocky, bulky arms, broad shoulders, deep voice, etc. You would never know it if you met me, but I cross-dress in...
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Happy 10th Birthday to Portland's Media Institute for Social Change!
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Courtesy Media Institute for Social ChangeIt was roughly 10 years ago this month when former Mercury reporter (and forever friend of the paper) Phil Busse launched the Media...
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At the Very Least, Queen of Katwe Isn't a Schmaltzy Embarrassment
by Elinor Jones QUEEN OF KATWE"Pawn to F3? That's your opening move? Amateur."There's a not insignificant legacy of terrible movies about poor brown kids being taught out of poverty by godly white...
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No One’s Policing Lead Dust in Demolition-Happy Portland
by Dirk VanderHart NICOLE XUIN A YEAR when environmental hazards have screamed across TV news broadcasts with surprising frequency, lead has had a starring role.Already on alert from disturbing...
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Things To Do Tonight 9/30
by Mercury Staff Drive-By Truckers, Lydia Loveless Drive-By Truckers—whose badass name matches their bad-ass Southern alt-country sound—are making a can’t-miss stop in Portland the same day the...
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by Anonymous As a longtime Portlander, can I move into YARD, aka Death Star? Or is it only allowed for atonal immigrants?[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Making Movies Is Hard! Best Fake Friends Is Proof
by Elinor Jones BEST FAKE FRIENDSNot exactly Portland's greatest moment.I'd like to start this review by saying that I commend anyone who has the guts to create something, and put that thing out into...
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Trump's Worst Week Ever
by Rich Smith Even Trump's aides have had it up to here with him. JStone / Shutterstock.comIf the timestamps on this morning's tweetstorm are any indication, Trump didn't get much sleep last night....
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Things To Laugh At This Weekend
by Mercury Staff Lez Stand Up: Pumpkin Spice Edition I fucking love Lez Stand Up. Not only is it one of the city’s absolute best queer-friendly comedy showcases, it’s one of the city’s best comedy...
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Things to Eat and Drink This Weekend
by Mercury Staff CYNO CUBNicky USA's Wild About Game A cooking competition celebrating the flavors of wild game, with chefs from Portland facing off against Seattle's best to determine which city...
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Science News: CO2 Levels Clear Frightening Threshold. So Even if Trump Loses,...
by Ethan Linck Earth looking a little like Solaris on September 27, 2016.NASAGlobal Mean Atmospheric CO2 Levels Clear 400ppm, Forever: The average concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere...
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