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How to eat, drink, and be merry for the month of November. by Mercury Staff The 4th Annual Chili Jamboree The Portland Mercury is teaming up with White Owl Social Club, Jim Beam, and Nicky USA to...
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New Map Conveniently Shows Entire Metropolitan Area Where You Can No Longer...
by Erik Henriksen Mike Sellinger via Open: HousingThis post—it's by Michael Andersen, of housing advocacy coalition Portland for Everyone—starts with a pretty effective lede:Every month, Portland’s...
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Donald Trump Gets Coveted Ku Klux Klan Endorsement
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Courtesy Daily KosWhile Donald Trump may be suffering from a lack of endorsements—even reviled Republicans such as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker accidentally gave Hillary the...
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If Your Nerves Are Fried from this Presidential Race, Here's What You Can Do
by Christopher Frizzelle In eight days, the internet can go back to what the internet does best: showing us what kittens look like.Kitten/ShutterstockWhen. Is this. Going to be over. Longest, most...
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Election Night in Portland 2016...Come Hang With the Mercury at Doug Fir
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey This is about to get weird. If you’ve ever attended any of the past Mercury Election Night Parties, then you already know they get WILD. And once again, we’ve got another...
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Keep Calm and Visualize Michelle Obama Being Appointed to Hillary Clinton's...
by Megan Burbank In a Clinton cabinet of wonders, I picture Michelle Obama as Attorney General.Bastiaan Slabbers / iStockIf you're still paying attention, this election is probably causing you a...
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Want to Buy Terminal 1? You'll Have Two Weeks to Make an Offer
by Dirk VanderHart Dirk VanderHartNow that a proposed homeless shelter at its 14.5-acre Terminal 1 property is off the table, the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) is itching—once...
View Article"Ride" by Twenty One Pilots is Fucking Awful
by Anonymous I need to say because im sick and tired of hearing "ohhhhh ohhhh im fallin so im taking my time on my life" on every fucking radio station. This is a band of white emo kids that think...
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by Anonymous I get it that the bitching about transplants is played out and that there is nothing we can do to combat the onslaught of them moving here, but I've noticed an annoying trend. Especially...
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How to HUMP!
A guide to the film festival where everyone is sexy and porn isn’t a dirty word. by Bri Brey Let's talk about HUMP!, bay-bee!HUMP! is the world-renowned, amateur dirty movie festival featuring a hot...
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Cooler weather is the perfect time for Bridge & Burn. by Cassie Ridgway Real Northwesterners revel in colder weather. Bright fall leaves and gentle foggy mornings are as romantic as a crackling...
View ArticleSavage Love
Cuck Everlasting by Dan Savage I’m a 41-year-old malewho looks like the tall, strong, professional, alpha-male type on the outside. On the inside, though, I would like to find a strong, confident...
View ArticleHow Popular Is Weed These Days?
Weed is handily outpolling our presidential candidates. by Vince Sliwoski It seems like weedis more mainstream than ever. Exactly how popular is it these days?YOU’RE RIGHT. The popularity of cannabis...
View ArticlePatent Hypocrisy with Cannabis
The Feds patented CBD, but they can’t have it both ways. by Josh Jardine YOU MAY have seen the number 6630507 online—maybe posted in selfies, written on someone’s hand or arm. It’s a US patent number,...
View ArticleOne Day at a Time
This week: Justin Bieber says he’s not a robot. That’s exactly what a robot would say. by Ann Romano MONDAY, OCTOBER 24Quick question: Is the world’s worst election over yet, dears? No? It’s still...
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Relax and celebrate at the Portland Mercury’s Election Night Party! If you’re the type of person who's going to be a nervous wreck on election night—and considering the past few months, who could...
View ArticlePortland’s Police Reform Effort Has a Problem
Its citizen advisers say they’ve been abandoned. by Dirk VanderHart THE CITIZEN BOARD helping reform Portland’s police force got out of a two-month timeout last week to find it had been stood...
View ArticleLocal Activists Call Out Disparate Treatment After Controversial Bundy Acquittal
“We would have been shot,” a Don’t Shoot Portland organizer says by Doug Brown SECONDS AFTER someone lit the American flag on fire, it became clear: The group marching against perceived government...
View ArticleHall Monitor—The Death of Terminal 1
Portland’s bold, flawed mass shelter proposal just gave way to the status quo. by Dirk VanderHart THE TERMINAL 1 proposal probably dies its official death Wednesday, November 2.Nearly five months...
View ArticleIn the Year Twenty Forty Two
by Anonymous When is enough enough for you people? You stole this country from indigenous people, raped, murdered and enslaved people for centuries. You created laws so that non-Caucasians knew their...
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