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Life Be Lifin’—starring Monét X. Change—condenses over twenty years of their life into a comedic, dramatic autobiography of song, standup, and the art of drag. This tour of the show may be the last time you can see Monét live for a minute. portlandmercury.com/comedy/2024/04…
A Union Pacific freight train derailed this morning at the east end of the Steel Bridge. While impacts appear to be minimal, the event called attention to the bridge's weaknesses as a transit hub—and to the risks of oil-by-rail transport in Portland. portlandmercury.com/news/2024/04/2…
Lookin' for a good time? Plan your week with us with everything from 21 Savage's American Dream Tour to Ben Schwartz & Friends, and from Rip City Comedy Fest to Alison Roman Gives Solicited Advice (Live). It's our TOP PICKS OF THE WEEK! everout.com/portland/artic…
Saddle up, trash pandas! It's time to ride into this week's filthiest gossip with THE TRASH REPORT. This week: The White House "bore"-espondent's dinner, Kristi Noem: pet murderer, and the horny allure of Zendaya! portlandmercury.com/the-trash-repo…
Steel Bridge closed after train derails, pro-Palestine protesters set up shop at PSU, and let's look deeply into the eyes of animal serial killer and South Dakota governor Kristi Noem. 🔪🔪🔪 It's GOOD MORNING, NEWS! 🗞️👋 portlandmercury.com/good-morning-n…
More exposed to high-speed traffic, homeless people in Portland die in car crashes at a disproportionate rate. Some city officials wonder about fentanyl's impact. Advocates say that question is a distraction from making real change on the streets. portlandmercury.com/news/2024/04/1…
Commissioner Rene Gonzalez’s idea to fine unhoused people up to $1,000 and hand public camping policy control to the mayor was shot down Wednesday. Instead, the city will likely adopt regulations aimed at curbing unsanctioned fires and bike "chop shops." portlandmercury.com/news/2024/04/2…
Your brain's gonna eat up this week's delicious edition of POP QUIZ PDX! In this edition: New fast food franchises, the world's sexiest restaurant mascots, and (though it doesn't taste good) Commish Gonzalez gets eaten alive. See how well YOU score! 🤓 portlandmercury.com/pop-quiz-pdx/2…
"Harnessing electricity and being Ambassador to France will have to wait... there are Mercury stories to read!" Catch up on the best Mercury articles of the week with our SUNDAY READING LIST! 🗞️☕️ portlandmercury.com/newsblast/2024…
"I post fetish content on the internet. How worried should I be that someone, like a future boss, might find out?" Dan Savage (with an assist from a couple of fetish creators) weigh in with their real-world advice in this edition of SAVAGE LOVE! portlandmercury.com/savage-love/20…
Portlanders celebrated Earth Day 2024 last weekend with an upcycled costume parade. Check out these great photos of the beautiful event by Justin Yau. portlandmercury.com/environment/20…
Let's go, trash pandas! It's time for more hilarious gossip with THE TRASH REPORT. This week: Trump's delicious humiliation, TSwift's tortured poetry, and Sonic the Hedgehog + Keanu Reeves = LUV 4EVA 😍! portlandmercury.com/the-trash-repo…
This week we're delving into plate lunches and pan roasts, looking forward to the opening of a new vinyl bar, and celebrating the Sports Bra's potential national expansion. It's the week in PORTLAND FOOD NEWS! 😋 everout.com/portland/artic…
Here's your to-do list for the weekend, including events from Portland Independent Bookstore Day to the 82nd Avenue of Roses Parade and from a Portland Public Schools Arts Showcase to a protest art installation at One Grand Gallery. LET'S! GET! BUSY! everout.com/portland/artic…
Who's the sexiest fast food mascot in the world? 🧐 This pressing question, along with lots more super fun local trivia, in this week's edition of Portland's spiciest trivia quiz, POP QUIZ PDX! 🤓 portlandmercury.com/pop-quiz-pdx/2…
If Portlanders could use a percentage of the city's budget to work on projects most important to them, what would they choose? If voters approve a participatory budgeting initiative this year, we would get to find out. portlandmercury.com/news/2024/04/2…
•This could be the PNW's chance to finally get into FAT BEAR WEEK. •Portland camping rule changes (that still need a final vote) •Portlanders deciding the budget?! (could be on the November ballot) It's Good Morning, FAT BEAR News! portlandmercury.com/good-morning-n…
•Portland rapper J Prodigy's first single goes "Swish" •Finally! Nasalrod's vinyl split release show •Blossom teases a rock song from her new album Heres the new music news that’s happening Hear in Portland! portlandmercury.com/hear-in-portla…
Charli XCX & Troye Sivan are teaming up to make their fans sweat, indie pop singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers has an upcoming tour, and Neil Young & Crazy Horse will swing through Bend this summer. Get the hottest tix now with help from TICKET ALERT! everout.com/portland/artic…
Fairy tale adaptions are only as good as the people adapting them, but Shaking the Tree has boiled the bones of "The Boy and the Bird" into a visual feast. portlandmercury.com/Theater/2024/0…
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If Portlanders could use a percentage of the city's budget to work on projects most important to them, what would they choose? If voters approve a participatory budgeting initiative this year, we would get to find out. portlandmercury.com/news/2024/04/2…
Who's the sexiest fast food mascot in the world? 🧐 This pressing question, along with lots more super fun local trivia, in this week's edition of Portland's spiciest trivia quiz, POP QUIZ PDX! 🤓 portlandmercury.com/pop-quiz-pdx/2…
For those tracking Portland's evolving rules on public camping, Commissioner Gonzalez has another (updated) proposal for Council to consider today. New version incorporates changes requested by Commissioners Rubio & Mapps, and removes jail time, but increases fines up to $1K. 🧵
@portlandmercury You clearly missed out on recent transplant Sassy.
Enter to WIN FREE TICKETS to see the hilarious TWO EVILS comedy game show starring Arlo Weierhauser & Kate Murphy, with super special guest star ZAK TOSCANI! Coming at ya this Wednesday night! 😈 portlandmercury.com/comedy/2024/04…
extremely crass and opportunistic for Ryan/Gonzalez to use a Vision Zero hearing to bloviate about more funding for cops. just so gross. the new city council can't come soon enough portlandmercury.com/news/2024/04/1…
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Did you spot the Unipiper in this week's appropriately titled, 'Say Nice Things About Portland' issue of the @portlandmercury? 🔎 @WilberWithAnE did a fantastic Where's Waldo-ian take of some of Portland's past, present, and future greats! What else would you have included here?
Think you're smart? 🤓 Let's find out with the latest, super fun POP QUIZ PDX! This week's trivia game includes sassy-ass Qs about Nike scandals, more Nike scandals, and... holy crap. That's a LOT of Nike scandals! 👟See how well YOU score! portlandmercury.com/pop-quiz-pdx/2…
THE PEOPLE'S JOKER opens tomorrow at the Hollywood! Tickets are available now. hollywoodtheatre.org/events/the-peo…
You may have heard about The People's Joker, the hilarious debut feature from Vera Drew that parodies comic book icons to tell a trans coming out story. Well, it's opening at @HollywoodTheatr this weekend, and it's worth the hype. portlandmercury.com/movies-and-tv/…
Q is definitely one of the people that makes me love Portland. I’m glad to see her get some flowers.
While a lot of people complain about the city's homelessness crisis, meet one person who's been doing the hard work for years—and has been wildly successful. Meet the amazing LaQuida Landford of AfroVillage PDX. portlandmercury.com/say-nice-thing…
This essay by @IanKarmel is truly lovely: an ode to many of the things Portland has been and currently is and why all of it is beautiful and true and dear. I, too, love this town, and I sincerely appreciate this wonderful valentine to it. portlandmercury.com/say-nice-thing…
Huge surprise….I’m a big fan of riding my bicycle in Portland, Oregon. And I waxed poetic about it in the @portlandmercury’s Say Nice Things About Portland issue, out now in PRINT (!) and online. portlandmercury.com/say-nice-thing…
Yes!
OPINION: From Mercury editor @WmSteveHumphrey, a brief history of how Portland's wealthy, conservative buttholes became the dominant voice in the city, and how to stop them. It's part of our "Say Nice Things About Portland" issue... pick yours up today! portlandmercury.com/say-nice-thing…
My latest for @portlandmercury was a pleasure to write #AfroVillagePDX portlandmercury.com/say-nice-thing…
@IanKarmel @portlandmercury Good god. I auto retweeted because it's You, and the Merc, and positive about Portland (from the headline) even before I read it. Then I read it. Shit, that's a fantastic piece of writing. I'm not even saying I liked it (I did) or I agreed (I did), I'm saying it's GOOD WRITING
Think you're a smarty butt? See how you score on my latest POP QUIZ PDX, featuring funny trivia about criminal cops (and firefighters), crybaby billionaires, and the James Beard-award winning Buffalo Wild Wings! 🤪 portlandmercury.com/pop-quiz-pdx/2…
The Zamboni Lives!
@IanKarmel @portlandmercury Excellent article, Ian! If I may offer one clarification/PSA, the Lloyd Center Ice Rink is alive and well. You can even watch the Zamboni-cam on lloydice.com!
I returned to my old job writing at the @portlandmercury for the annual "Why I Love Portland" issue. I wrote about... why I still love Portland. portlandmercury.com/say-nice-thing…
Here's my review of my favorite movie of the year so far, Bonello's The Beast, which opens for Portlanders tomorrow at @cinema21pdx
Bertrand Bonello crammed so much into The Beast, that it threatens to tear at the seams, but the chemistry between Léa Seydoux and George MacKay holds it together. @SinacoLad reviews the new sci-fi, time travel romance opening tomorrow at Cinema 21. portlandmercury.com/movies-and-tv/…