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Things To Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff LVL UP, Blowout, Sleeping Blood After helping to build one of the nation’s most promising DIY scenes through their own label, Double Double Whammy, Brooklyn-based indie rock quartet...
View ArticleHUMP! 2016 Film Lineup Announced!
by Dan Savage The HUMP! Jury was blown away by the number and the quality of films submitted for HUMP! this year. Deciding which films were going to make it into the festival was difficult for the...
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Potential Trump News Network Means Trump Might Never Go Away
by Rich Smith Trump's once and future marks. mikeledray / Shutterstock.comDuring the Trump tax release fiasco earlier this month, we were all reminded that Trump is only worth as much as his name....
View ArticleAll-Ages Action!
This week’s all-ages shows. by Emma Burke FRI OCT 21Of Montrealw/TEEN; Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE RussellThe first time I saw Of Montreal live kind of felt like puberty—I was 15, sweaty, nervous, and...
View ArticleThings to Do Music
Noteworthy shows for the week of October 19-25. WEDNESDAY 10/19DAMIEN JURADO, PATRICK DETHLEFS(The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th) Damien Jurado’s Visions of Us on the Land completes a trilogy of albums...
View ArticleFlock of Dimes Finds Energy in Solitude
On her solo debut as Flock of Dimes, Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak disconnects. by Robin Bacior AS THE WORLD becomes more and more interconnected, it grows increasingly difficult to disconnect. This became a...
View ArticleSweeping Exits Take Back the Night
Sweeping Exits turns horror into empowerment. by Ciara Dolan NIGHT AFTER NIGHT, she watches the watchers. She intoxicates them with the flickering glow of film reels, gazing down from her booth at the...
View ArticleBrandy Clark’s A Small-Town Lady
Brandy Clark’s sophomore record, Big Day in a Small Town, has some of the sharpest lines in country. by Ben Salmon COUNTRY SINGER/SONGWRITER Brandy Clark has lived in Nashville for years, but she grew...
View ArticleOde to Reacher
Jack Reacher goes back in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. by Erik Henriksen JACK REACHER says things like “I will break your legs. I will break your arms. I will break your neck.” If Reacher says these...
View ArticleForcing the Issue: The Mercury’s 2016 Endorsements
You’ve got a bunch of important decisions to make, Portland. Here's some help. by the Mercury Endorsement Strike Force This past Spring, the Mercury Endorsement Strike Force titled our endorsement...
View ArticleThe State Just Sneakily Outlawed A Bunch of Portland Smoking Patios
Some bar owners say they could be snuffed out. by Dirk VanderHart ANYONE DESPERATE for a seat at the Alberta Street Pub on a recent Friday evening was in luck.The bar top was crammed with drinkers....
View ArticleThe Portland Police Bureau Has Been Quietly Documenting Encounters with the...
Whoops! It didn’t tell prosecutors or defense attorneys. by Doug Brown For the past 10 months, Portland police officers have been documenting encounters with people they deem mentally ill, whether...
View ArticleHall Monitor: The Mayor’s Last Big Loss?
Charlie Hales’ police contract “victory” looks like anything but right now. by Dirk VanderHart Viewed a certain way, the riot cops who mobilized around Portland City Hall on Wednesday, October 12, had...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor
“Do as ya please; obviously I can’t stop you.”HONORS ENGLISHRE: The Mercury’s Music section of Oct 12.Just wanted to remind your music writers that band names are singular nouns, but the band members...
View ArticleI, Anonymous
Don’t Be the Trump of Portland I MOVED TO PORTLAND six months ago, and I didn’t come because my job moved me or because I was following a partner. I love everything about this city, and I wanted...
View ArticleIs it Possible to Really See Andy Warhol?
Maybe not. But the baby angels and cartoon cats make PAM’s show worth your while. by Megan Burbank WALKING THROUGH THE Portland Art Museum’s new Andy Warhol exhibition, I wondered if it’s possible to...
View ArticleUnited Shades of Kamau
W. Kamau Bell Weighs in on capitalism, Donald Trump, and quitting Alec Baldwin. by William Kennedy DURING THE 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump has asked African American voters what they “have...
View ArticleCured at Last
Founding member of the Cure Lol Tolhurst opens up about his personal disintegration in a new memoir. by Robert Ham Lol Tolhurst has gone through the kind of rock star redemption that’s custom-built...
View ArticleFashionably Forward
Is the buzzy new Revelry worth the hype? by Andrea Damewood THE LAST TIME I made a trip to Revelry, the buzzy new Korean-fusion bar-restaurant-hybrid in inner Southeast, Rider Strong (Shawn Hunter...
View ArticleGamay: The Comeback Kid
Long reviled, Gamay is quickly becoming wine’s comeback kid. by MJ Skegg GAMAY’S REPUTATION was trashed in the ’70s and ’80s when producers in Beaujolais, the grape’s spiritual home in eastern France,...
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