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Good morning, News: Protests and Arrests at City Hall
by Doug Brown Good morning, Portland. Do me a solid and click these links, please. October 12 outside City HallDoug BrownThe biggest news of the past day is that Portland City Council passed a...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Sonny and Overshare
by Dan Savage I volunteer at a phone service that people can call in if they are feeling suicidal or just having a bad day. We talk with them for a few minutes, listen to their feelings, no judgment....
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Our Sister Paper The Stranger Turned 25—Here's An Oral History of Their First...
by Amber Cortes Early days: (Left to right) Nancy Hartunian, Tim Keck, Dan Savage, Sean Hurley, James Sturm. Daniel HousmanThe following story was co-published with support from Longreads and its...
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Three Protestors Face Felony Charges After Yesterday's Clash With Police
by Dirk VanderHart Jonny Perez, Robert West, and Sara LongMultnomah County Sheriff's OfficeBy the time the pepper spray, police, and protestors had dissipated from outside City Hall on Wednesday, 10...
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Another Portland Chef To Compete On Upcoming Season Of Top Chef
by Andrea Damewood BJ Smith is kicking it into overdrive these days.Within the last two months, he's launched two new projects—Smokehouse Provisions in Vancouver and Kim Jong Smokehouse in Pine Street...
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Things To Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff Phone Call, Fringe Class, Rasheed Jamal, DJ Lamar LeRoy Often billed as an opener (as he is here), and impressing crowds as a guest performer, Rasheed Jamal is so underrated it’s...
View ArticleDonald Trump Clarifies: He Only Sexually Assaults Hot Women
by Dan Savage TPM:Donald Trump on Thursday attacked a former People Magazine reporter who alleged Trump forcibly kissed her while she was reporting at his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2005, implying that he...
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Bob Dylan Doesn't Deserve the Nobel Prize In Literature and He Shouldn't Want It
by Rich Smith Obama awarding Dylan the Presidential Medal of Freedom for "exceptional meritorious service." Cannot argue with that. Rena Schild / Shutterstock.comBob Dylan just won the 2016 Nobel...
View ArticleThe New Micro Aggression
by Anonymous To every single one of you who frequent my favorite bar on foster: please stop with the fucking malted vinegar on your fries! When you dump that rotten shit on hot fries, it weaponizes...
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This Week's Style Events
by Elizabeth Mollo The Yo StoreSarah Radcliffe, former proprietress of Yo Vintage! has re-launched her business with a new direction and name, The Yo Store. The Yo Store is a new shopping experience...
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The New York Times' Legal Team to Trump: Come at Us. We'd Love It.
by Sydney Brownstone These pins were sold openly at the RNC. Y'all really didn't know Trump was running on the Rape Culture™ platform?The StrangerDonald Trump's attorneys have asked the New York Times...
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As Trump Implodes, We're Finally Talking About Consequences for Sexual Assault
by Megan Burbank The national mood around sexual assault is changing. This is something the president will need to acknowledge when she takes office. KathyKafka via iStockThe Trump campaign's...
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Portland Hip-Hop Day Moved to Skype Live! Studio Due to Protests and Weather
by Jenni Moore MIC CRENSHAWPHOTO VIA WWW.MICCRENSHAW.COM.=After Portland police clashed with Don’t Shoot PDX protestors yesterday—which resulted in 10 arrests and countless protestors being...
View ArticleTalker at Stellar
by Anonymous OMG it is not your one-woman show. It was Bri's show. I did NOT pay to hear you and your seat mate's commentary over my shoulder in reply to every single line uttered on stage. You are...
View ArticleVindication
by Anonymous Let's say I got a room/office that's my room but it's communal in a sense that other cry babies who have power get a key. They have no business in there, don't know the difference between...
View ArticleSJW KJ
by Anonymous C'mon dude, I sang a Dr Dre song at karaoke. It obviously contained the N-Word multiple times throughout the song. I use the "N-Word" as so not to offend anyone here or get censored by...
View ArticleA Pilgrim in an Unholy Land
by Anonymous The country has gone to hell... the streets are filled with roving gangs of illegal immigrants looking to burn down buildings, cars and homes. No lie, it's EXACTLY like that Escape From...
View ArticleThe Tiny House Double Standard
by Anonymous I drive the Hazelnut Grove camp almost every day and I've noticed a few things that concern me. I've read a few articles on people building tiny houses on their own properties, then nosey...
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Good Morning, News: Backlash Against Hales and Fritz, a Former Flower Guy's...
by Dirk VanderHart Doug BrownAfter cops and protestors clashed outside City Hall on Wednesday, I asked Don't Shoot Portland's Greg McKelvey what he thought came next. He wasn't totally sure. Now it...
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Things To Do This Weekend!
Things to do for October 14-16 by Mercury Staff We're creeping ever closer to Halloween, which means all the properly-themed parties are gonna start crawling out from under the bed in bigger, more...
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