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The Future Won't Have Speed Traps

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/14

by AnonymousInstead, each car will be permanently connected to the Internet through satellite and your speed will be constantly monitored through a combination of GPS and AI. Any deviation will be penalized. If we're lucky, a warning first. Coming home late from the airport? No other cars on the road and headed down a straightway? Doesn't matter. You will be driving EXACTLY the speed limit whether you like it or not. That is, if you're

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Portland Concert Poster Exhibition Opening at Mint...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/14

Ranging from the '60s to 2024—posters come from the archive of Portland historian Jason Blumklotz. by Nolan Parker For decades, Portland's lampposts and community boards have told a vibrant history. Oftentimes stacked one on top of another, feet-thick, stapled up on poles lining hip-strips like Mississippi and Hawthorne avenues, concert posters clue in passersby that certain artists will be playing at a

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With a Tenuous Ceasefire in Gaza, Portland Councilors...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/14

Councilors say that a lack of action from US Congress has forced them to think locally to stop the flow of weapons and military aid to Israel. by Abe Asher Last month, the progressive block of the Portland City Council signed onto a pledge to investigate the city’s financial ties to Israel and its military. They’re calling on city councils across the country to do the same. The pledge, which was launched by the

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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Portland This...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/14

Motrik, Meet Portland's Mini Museums, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $20 by EverOut Staff Find an answer to "What are you up to this weekend?" with our cheap and easy guide featuring events from a free Motrik show to a launch party for VLVT HEART RECS and from an opportunity to Meet Portland's Mini Museums to the Portland Thorns NWSL Semifinal Watch Party. Check out our top event picks for more ideas this

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Game Jammers: Creativity as Code

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/14

Bringing past and present together to design the video games of the future. by Corbin Smith A busted Mario costume. An extremely old pinball machine—so simple you wonder how pinball ever took off. Fighting games… so many fighting games. Hundreds of old consoles, some of which were complete flops, hooked up to hundreds of cathode ray tube televisions for maximum retro fidelity. High level Tetris players playing the

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Good Morning, News: State Transpo Referendum, PSU...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/14

by Jeremiah Hayden If you appreciate the Mercury's interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution to support our editorial team. Your donation is tax-deductible. You can also subscribe and have our papers delivered! Good Morning, Portland: Ok, rain dogs. “Oh, how we danced away all of the lights. We've always been out of our minds.” The sky is falling and it gets dark at 4 pm, but we can

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Edgar Wright’s The Running Man Doesn’t Really Go...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/14

Dom Sinacola by Dom Sinacola Written under his Richard Bachman pseudonym, Stephen King’s novel The Running Man was first published in 1982; it describes the malicious future of 2025. King imagines that a massive authoritarian media conglomerate has a functional monopoly on all of American culture. To distract from its greed and incompetence, the quasi-governmental entity has replaced the country’s health care

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Then we're in the bathroom, brushing our teeth

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/14

by Anonymous Here’s the thing children. You’ve always been allowed even encourage to ask for help and ideas when you’d like to. We’ve been doing our best to drop hints of the years and a few of you have pick up things here and there. Typically, in situations like these, it’s customary to accept that your personally made some errors (to put it super fucking lightly), offer an apology, and redirect responsibility for the wide dynamics and

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Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Environmental...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/14

Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Environmental Advocates in Zenith Energy Lawsuit. Environmental advocates celebrated the procedural win, saying the Land Use Board of Appeals has a better grasp on complicated land use policy. by Jeremiah Hayden A lawsuit environmental advocates filed against the city of Portland after it issued a land use credential to Zenith Energy will be heard in a specialized administrative

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How Making Nonfiction Comics Changed My Mind

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/13

Suzette Smith by Suzette Smith From the jump, I should admit that I have been skeptical of comics journalism. The method is too slow for the 24-hour news cycle, and making comics about complex and evolving issues risks simplifying things that should remain nuanced. However, a new, deeply-considered textbook by former editors at The Nib, Shay Mirk and Eleri Harris, has changed my mind. Making Nonfiction

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Amid Months of Contentious Bargaining, PSU Adjunct...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/13

A state board found PSU violated labor law by withholding benefit funds from adjunct union members. The incident has shaken the trust of many adjunct faculty as the union works on their next contract. by Kevin Foster Portland State University’s adjunct faculty union recently won an unfair labor practice case against Portland State University (PSU) over the withholding of special benefit funds. The outcome was a

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Portland Budget Tweak Causes Heated Discussion on...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/13

A failed amendment to put homeless sweeps funding toward rent aid brought fiery testimony from Portlanders. Mayor Wilson’s office lit the match. by Jeremiah Hayden Updated November 13 at 12:52 pm City Council found themselves in a tense standoff with Mayor Keith Wilson and angry Portland residents over a councilor’s failed plan to reallocate a portion of city dollars that have been used to sweep homeless

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FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to Dean...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/13

by Mercury Promotions Who's ready to have some fun? Well, the Mercury is here to help with FREE TICKETS to see some of Portland's best concerts and events—our way of saying thanks to our great readers and spread the word about some fantastic upcoming performances! (Psst... if you want to say thanks to the Mercury, please consider making a small monthly contribution to keep us alive and kickin'!) And oh boy, do we have some fun events

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Transportation Funding Bill Opponents Launch...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/13

Governor Tina Kotek signed a transportation package into law Monday. The same day, a group of opponents filed a petition to refer the bill's tax increases back to Oregon voters, hoping they’ll reject them. by Taylor Griggs Governor Tina Kotek signed a new state transportation funding package into law on Monday, more than a month after the Oregon Legislature passed the bill during a dramatic, extended special

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POP QUIZ PDX: Sex, Drugs, and Jazzercise! 💅

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/13

See how well YOU score in this week's drug-and-aerobics fueled trivia quiz! by Wm. Steven Humphrey WHAT UP, SMARTY BUTT? It's time once again to put your brainy-brain to the test with this week's edition of POP QUIZ PDX—our weekly, local, sassy-ass trivia quiz. And this week we'll be testing your knowledge on last week's big events, including public aerobics, Trump's continuing humiliation at the hands of Portland,

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Good Morning, News: Another Spicy Meatball Portland...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/13

Suzette Smith by Suzette Smith If you appreciate the Mercury's interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution to support our editorial team. Your donation is tax-deductible. You can also subscribe and have our papers delivered! Good Morning, Portland: Here comes the rain again, falling on my head like a memory, falling on my head like a new emotion. We're looking

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I'm Sick of Hearing About Epstein

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/13

by Anonymous Seeing 4 articles in a row plastered along the front of the NYTimes makes me groan inside. I get the gist of who he was, of who Trump is, please stop telling me that my life depends on discovering more information or digging deeper into a conspiracy because to tell you the truth, I really don't care anymore, one way or the other. If I had the choice between people spending time and money working on Epstein versus finding a

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Portland Says Goodbye to Its Sweetie, Lollipop Shoppe

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/13

We’ve got a couple weeks of shows before the Central Eastside mainstay… leaves. by Nolan Parker On November 2, via an Instagram post, the much loved Central Eastside staple, Lollipop Shoppe announced that they plan on closing their doors around Thanksgiving this year (November 27) due to financial stress. The venue will continue hosting shows until its closure, with show announcements being shared out

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Good Morning, News: Homeless Sweeps on Trial at City...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/12

by Wm. Steven Humphrey If you’re reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury’s news reporting, arts and culture coverage, event calendar, and the bevy of events we host throughout the year. The work we do helps our city shine, but we can’t do it without your support. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there

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Concert Review: Chalk—From Belfast with Love

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/11

The Northern Ireland post-punk duo mesmerized a packed Holocene on their US debut tour. by Carl Sundberg Following a massive headlining sold-out tour across the UK and Europe—including debut festival slots at Glastonbury and Bilbao BBK—Belfast electro post-punk duo, Chalk, made their US debut over the weekend in the Pacific Northwest. Chalk’s second stop on their selective five-date US tour landed them at Holocene

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