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Stone Soup PDX Provides Food—and a Path Forward

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/22

The new Northeast Portland cafe trains those in need, to “help repair the world.” by Em Chan In early June, a new cafe in the Montavilla neighborhood will start serving breakfast pastries and coffee in the mornings and grab-and-go soups, sandwiches, and salads in the afternoon. Its offerings all sound pretty standard, but this isn’t the average Portland cafe. Behind the counter, Stone Soup PDX is

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Process Over Product

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/22

Artist Meech Boakye on decay, labor, and food as a gift. by Lindsay Costello Meech Boakye’s lush, organic, and often edible artworks find their footing in floral, fungal, and microbial relationships. The Portland-based artist, originally from Winnipeg, views these relationships as “armatures for learning how to be in a community.” This leads them to share everything from abundant “digital gardens” and recipes for

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Murder Is Bad (Remember?)

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/22

by Anonymous I've now heard my fellow Portlanders of multiple political affiliations mention that they wish someone would just kill ______. Whoever it is. Elon. Biden. Biden's son. Trump etc... I've heard all of these names mentioned. I find it outrageous that people are so quick to jump to not just violence, but murder as some sort of answer to our problems (as if that would make any difference). And this is in Portland no less.

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A minority of ☝️

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/22

by Anonymous It is easy to stand up when the crowd is behind you, when there are chants to echo and signs to hold. But what happens when the crowd disappears? When it is just you, your conscience, and the truth? Will you still speak up when silence would be easier? Will you defend your rights when doing so might cost you something? The real test of courage is not in numbers, it is in isolation. Will you stand even when you stand alone

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Power Moves: A Community Organization is Calling the...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/21

The Old Town Community Association maintains a close working relationship with the city's economic development agency, Prosper Portland. Some worry that organizations like OTCA have held too much sway over the city agency's financial decisions, to the benefit of OTCA's board members. by Courtney Vaughn One of Portland’s oldest and most culturally significant neighborhoods is on the cusp of a renaissance, thanks to

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Happyness...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/21

Imago’s absurdist production wrestles with the common question: Do I need to buy a gun? by John Rudoff Many themes in Happyness (The Wrecking Ball) can be found just outside its performance hall doors. Sidewalk-blocking tents, hundred-dollar dinners, visible homelessness, and blooming high-rise luxury condominiums are all part of the backdrop for playwright Carol Triffle’s engaging new work, currently being

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We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/21

by Anonymous Everyone has different motivational dynamics. Let's see what happens when we pull the carrot more in the direction we want things to do. It's a science experiment. Hanlon still has a nice shave.

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Hear In Portland: Bye Bye Rontoms Sunday Sessions,...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/21

Night Heron’s new record offers the calm of Escapism, milk, and grapes. by Jenni Moore If you’re a hardcore blues fan (or have recently had your love of blues music invigorated by Ryan Coogler’s new horror flick Sinners), you should check out the Waterfront Blues Festival’s lineup. The fest was recently augmented with artists including Oregon-based singer-songwriters including LaRhonda Steele and Ronnie

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Good Morning, News: Election Results, a New (Bad)...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/21

by Taylor Griggs 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! It's gonna be cloudy and temperate today, in the high 60s. Perfect weather, if you ask me. Time for the news. IN

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I want my light back

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/21

by Anonymous My words don't always aline with my thoughts and this has become problematic. What's more problematic is the social anxiety that comes after. I am so miserable after spending too much time talking and being perceived. I never felt like this before I met you. I wish I never met you and I really wish you didn't say all that shit about me. I'm human, imperfect, a little irrational and full of longing. I have always been full of

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Palestine is Still the Exception on Campus

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/20

by Anonymous The ICE targeting of college foreign students for deportation continues, and Oregon’s campus newspapers are covering the developments. I’m quite impressed by some of their journalism. My hometown Eugene’s UO "Daily Emerald" has covered the Gaza protests and the peaceful weeks of encampment months ago. Four students had their visas revoked this year, but then reinstated. Yet, the threat remains of UO student suspension by

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Mercury Music Picks: Outsider Portland Album Releases...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/20

Plus the next gen. of nu-metal and Portland music news! by Nolan Parker As I’m writing this, I’m still buzzing after seeing Lambrini Girls at Mississippi Studios on Sunday. Their politics are abolitionist, their energy was off the charts, and they cajoled concert goers into building a human pyramid with ten people that the rest of the audience then started a circle pit around. It was one of those shows that makes

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City Councilors Advocate for Tenants in Old Town...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/20

Councilors Mitch Green and Candace Avalos say a small budget adjustment could help tenants stay in their homes. by Adlai Coleman Following public outcry over leasing rates from tenants at Everett Station Lofts, Portland City Councilors Mitch Green and Candace Avalos have suggested a potential solution in the form of a rent subsidy. Everett Station Lofts has a unique agreement with the city that lies outside of the

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SAVAGE LOVE: Jerked Around

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/20

She does NOT like it when hubby locks himself in the bathroom to masturbate. 👀 by Dan Savage I recently came home from a short meeting to find my husband in the bathroom with the door locked — locked to keep the kids out — meaning that he was secretly jerking off to porn while I was out. This has happened a few times before while I was home or out briefly and I’ve tried to explain how hurtful it feels to me. If

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Good Morning News: Tearin' Up Pavement, How Fringe...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/20

by Courtney Vaughn 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! Expect intermittent sunshine and rain showers today, with a high of 61 degrees and a low of 46. Let’s jump right into the

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Powell’s Van Gogh book convo

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/20

by Anonymous we met a couple of weeks ago in powell’s pearl room, both of us looking for good Van Gogh books. I showed you my bag I’d made and you said I could probably make artists’ kits, too. I sent myself an email from your phone to send you recipes (and I was going to offer to make you an artist’s kit, too). I wrote my email address in a hurry because you had to get to work…maybe I entered it wrong? never got the message….

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NS Streetcar on Sunday (5/18)

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/20

by Anonymous you were in black in the back of the streetcar. you waved hi when I got on (flowy dark grey sweatshirt and navy camo pants, long brown hair). I didn’t recognize you (autistic with facial blindness, so I generally can’t recognize people), but also random dudes pay chics too much attention in public, so I wasn’t sure if you actually knew me or not. I watched as you got off on 23rd and you kind of waved again. I should’ve just

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At This Cully Church, an Unwanted Parking Lot Is Now...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/19

Portland nonprofit Depave led the effort to transform a slab of blacktop behind a church into a thriving green space. The city's zoning code didn't make it easy. by Taylor Griggs Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church had a pavement problem. The church, located in Northeast Portland’s Cully neighborhood, was surrounded with space for car parking—well beyond what congregants needed or wanted. And the excess blacktop

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I just wish...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/19

by Anonymous I think the Blackout issue is important. I just wish that you had acknowledged some things. Like how there are still people in prison. Malik Muhammad (arrested in 2020 for participating in the protests) spent more than 250 days in solitary confinement last year. Like how just a handful of Black women started the protests and they've all had to publicly ask for basic healthcare in the past couple of years. Like how there are

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It's Election Eve. Have You Voted Yet?

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/19

Multnomah County residents have until 8 pm Tuesday, May 20 to get their ballots dropped off. by The Mercury Election Strike Force Howdy, dear voters. Just dropping a reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday, May 20, is Election Day! That means you have until 8 pm Tuesday to get your ballot in. Ballots postmarked on or before May 20 will be accepted. This season's special district election will decide who gets elected to

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