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What Divides Us

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/07

by AnonymousIdentity has become increasingly fragmented, and I yearning for unity, for something real beneath the symbols, hashtags, and colors. Flags and identity symbols can serve as powerful tools for recognition and solidarity. For many, especially in marginalized groups, having a visible symbol is life-affirming. It says “I exist, and I belong.” But that same symbol can, paradoxically, become a wall. Over time, what started as a

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"We Do Not Consent": Sweep at Thousand Acres Removes...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/06

State contractors used pepper spray on people while removing an encampment along the Sandy River delta. The situation highlights pitfalls in Oregon's approach to chronic homelessness. by Kevin Foster In the delta where the Sandy River meets the Columbia, Jerri Boon lives tucked away in the cottonwood trees. She’s part of a community of more than 30 unhoused people who’ve called the Sandy River delta home for years,

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UPDATE: "We Do Not Consent": Sweep at Thousand Acres...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/06

State contractors used pepper spray on people while removing an encampment along the Sandy River delta. The situation highlights pitfalls in Oregon's approach to chronic homelessness. by Kevin Foster UPDATE SUN, JUNE 8: The Oregon Department of State Lands (DSL) has announced it's pausing cleanup and restoration work at the Sandy River Delta, the longtime home of a community of unhoused people whose encampment was

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

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/06

Dragon Boat Races, Grand Floral Parade, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15 by EverOut Staff Things are heating up this weekend, including the weather and the schedule of stellar summer events from the Portland Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade to the Dragon Boat Races and from the ADX Summer Skate Deck Show to GeekCraft Expo. For more suggestions, check out our top picks of the week. FRIDAY COMEDY Kickstand

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Good Morning, News: Musk Trump Tweet War, Twee...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/06

As Twitter's AI maid Grok explained "public narratives often differ from verified facts." 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. Good Morning, Portland: It's fucking beautiful out—forecasts promising a high of 85 degrees—and Comedy in the Park

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Ticket Alert: The Best Day Ever Fest, Sigur Rós, and...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/05

Plus, Lil Wayne and More Event Updates for June 5 by EverOut Staff It's ticket time. Aminé’s The Best Day Ever Fest returns for its second edition with highlights including Thundercat and Amaarae. Icelandic rockers Sigur Rós have added a Portland date to the final leg of their orchestral tour. Plus, it’s young moolah, babyyy—Lil Wayne presents Tha Carter VI tour with special guest Tyga this September. Read on for

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Where To Go for the Second Annual Portland Book Week

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/05

From silent reading sessions to bookish tattoos, PBW maps out a literary treasure hunt across the city. by Lindsay Costello Only in its second year, Portland Book Week already feels like a fixture. Launched by Powell’s Books and the Cascade Booksellers Association, the ten-day literary celebration makes one thing clear: If you think you’ve hit every bookshop in the area, well, you probably haven’t. From June 6–15,

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

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/05

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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POP QUIZ PDX: Mysterious Roller Rinks, Angry Birds,...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/05

See how well YOU score on this week's super fun trivia quiz! by Wm. Steven Humphrey AHOY THERE, SEXY BRAINS! 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 in this edition, we're testing your knowledge on a variety of topics including local Trump failures, mysterious roller rinks, and look out, loins! FLEET WEEK IS

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Good Morning, News: Protesting ICE, King TACO's...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/05

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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Possible Mirage

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/05

by Anonymous On Monday, you went to Col Summers park and shot around on the basketball court. It was hot outside, and eventually your shirt came off. You shared an extra basketball with me and *my friend’s kid* before you cooled off at the water fountain and sat down with a paperback book. Are you real? Asking for me.

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Okay, let’s start spilling some tea (Part 1 of ∞)

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/04

by Anonymous Fine, I‘ll get us started with something simple. The reason some of us like smelly soap is because it helps us know when you washed your hands, and that’s important to know before we let you start touching our parts.

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Hear In Portland: Aminé Drops New Album and PDX Live...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/04

Read all about what’s on the music forecast, Hear In Portland. by Jenni Moore Kind of a short one this week, music fans, but we couldn’t let mention of the new Aminé album pass without a review. Also, don’t sleep on the PDX Live line-up—she’s almost here! (Okay, she’s in August). On a rainy day like today, imagine the August heat on your skin, sipping a seltzer surrounded by jazzed up fellow music-lovers

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Ten Years of Terror With the Portland Horror Film...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/04

The films at Portland Horror Film Festival are powered by fake blood, hard work, and sincerity. by Joe Streckert Horror is a big tent for Portland Horror Film Festival (PHFF). Giving filmgoers the ghoulies for almost a decade, the weekend celebrates scary in all its many manifestations—hilarious, psychological, and pure gore, to name a few. Co-directors and spouses Gwen and Brian Callahan got into the festival game

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Good Morning, News: Big Beautiful Rifts, Condoleezza...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/04

by Elinor Jones The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support! Good morning, Portland! I'm Elinor Jones, and you know a lot of people are sick or on vacation when they've got me writing Good Morning, News. Usually

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Caught by the Tides Captures 22 Years of Filmmaking...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/04

Chinese writer-director Jia Zhangke is one of cinema’s truly great Wife Guys. by Dom Sinacola If you know nothing about Chinese writer-director Jia Zhangke—if this, just maybe, is the first film review you’ve read about the man’s work—know this: He is, in addition to a foundational voice in digital filmmaking and an essential chronicler of China’s transformational 21st century, one of cinema’s truly great

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Police Bureau Terminates Consulting Contract With...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/03

Citing budget constraints, Portland’s police chief says he's ending two contracts after questions from the Mercury about potential cronyism. by Courtney Vaughn A no-bid contract between the Portland Police Bureau and one of its former employees will end early. During a May 16 phone call, Portland Police Chief Bob Day said that after questions from the Mercury about the scope of work and expenses related to a

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About that Exhausted Narcissist

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/03

by Anonymous So I found this hilarious. Today I was messaged by someone with pretty obvious narcissistic tendencies for those who know the signs. “Hey, could you stop engaging me in conversation on [social media platform]?” Maybe during the Obama years, the conversation would’ve ended there. But in 2025, it’s important to ask follow-up questions. My response: “This is social media. We have a mutually agreed connection. Do you want to

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Portland Pride 2025 Events: Gays Eating the Rich

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/03

Plus, drag history, elf parties, synths, sewing club, and more! by Nolan Parker Don't make the mistake of thinking that Portland only celebrates Pride in July. That's when the parade is, but we all know Pride is in June, and Pride is already here with all her loud-ass bike rides, cute meet-ups, and shocking developments. Portland Pride 2025's top shocker may have already dropped: longstanding nightclub CC

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Mercury Music Picks: Holocene Turns 22 and the...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/06/03

Plus Bloc Party and Portraits of Past play Portland for the first time in forever! by Nolan Parker I usually try to save the Mercury Music Picks intro for joy… This week’s a little different. I am so tired—exhausted even—of people using the r-word thinking it’s somehow subversive and edgy when it’s actually completely fucked up and ableist. You know what’s actually subversive under an administration that’s

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