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

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/02

Portland Cinco de Mayo Fiesta, Crafty Wonderland, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15 by EverOut Staff There are dozens of reasons to leave this house this weekend on the cheap, and we're sharing them all below, from the Portland Cinco de Mayo Fiesta to City Cast Portland’s 503 Day Block Party and from the Crafty Wonderland Spring Art + Craft Market to A Celebration of the Life of Michael Hurley. For more

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Good Morning, News: Thousands Rally for May Day in...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/02

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: Well, bless your sweet cocktail; it's almost Highball Week. Did you know that I came up with that name, based on some story about Lunch Poems poet Frank O'Hara? I don't have anything to do with Highball

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Ticket Alert: HAIM, Bryan Adams, and More Portland...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/01

Plus, Above & Beyond and More Event Updates for May 1 by EverOut Staff Grab your credit card because another batch of event announcements is here. Pop rock sister trio HAIM is bringing new music from their upcoming fourth album on tour. Canadian hitmaker Bryan Adams will “roll with the punches” with special guests Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo. Plus, electronic trio Above & Beyond will put Cascades

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Get Ready! The Mercury's HIGHBALL WEEK Starts Monday,...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/01

$10 inventive cocktails from 41 of Portland's best barkeeps... all damn week long! by Mercury Promotions CALLING ALL BOOZE LOVERS! It's the triumphant return of the Portland Mercury's HIGHBALL! That's correct: Get ready for an ENTIRE WEEK (May 12-18) of specially crafted, original cocktails mixed by the best bartenders in town… and get this, they're only $10 each! 🤯 We've teamed up with the finest bars and

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The Buzz with Melvins’ Frontman King Buzzo

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/01

New album Thunderball, grunge history, and what’s next. by Melissa Locker When the Melvins roll into Portland’s Revolution Hall on June 3, they’ll bring with them two drummers, tourmates Napalm Death, and a slew of new songs to play from their recent album Thunderball. The release is the latest entry in the band’s incredibly expansive discography of 30+ albums, EPs, and live recordings—all chock-full of the

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

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/01

by Wm. Steven Humphrey 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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Good Morning, News: Oregon Republicans' TERRIBLE...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/05/01

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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Fans of PDX's Upgrade, Mass Timber, and...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/04/30

DJ Avelanche's fire video for “PDX (Wooden Roof)” is a fun who’s who of Portland hip-hop by Jenni Moore It’s no secret that Portlanders are really really proud of Portland International Airport, to the point that the city has become synonymous with PDX (our airport’s code). And let’s be honest, the obsession is warranted. In fact, I challenge anyone to show me a cooler, prettier, or more pleasant

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We Stan This Surprisingly Good All You Can Eat Sushi...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/04/30

Hamono Sushi’s unlimited omakase is unexpectedly delicious and won’t send you home hungry. by Andrea Damewood Inside a very small sushi restaurant on an unremarkable downtown block, big things are happening. Hamono Sushi has been tucked away on SW 9th, just around the corner from Nordstrom, since 2021. But until last fall, it was merely one of the many sushi-ramen-bento-yada-yada spots you find

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We Have a Dictator

Portland Mercury ·

2025/04/30

Don’t doubt it and don’t get used to it. by Charles Mudede If you believe we are somehow still living in the same US that conducted elections in November 2024, you are living in a dream. That America is gone. The one we are in now is not run by someone acting like a dictator—or, as Rachel Maddow claimed, “too incompetent” to be a dictator—but is, without a doubt, the real deal. This fact alone explains

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Good Morning, News: Ways to Celebrate May Day,...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/04/30

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! Temp check: We'll be in the high 60s today. Prepare for overly hot weather tomorrow 🥵, and then, *fingers crossed* some

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The stench

Portland Mercury ·

2025/04/30

by Anonymous You over microwaved your breast milk and now the break room reeks! It smells like BO and cheap Parmesan . The microwave itself needs to be chucked by seriously, how does one do that? It’s not a burrito you dummy?!

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Protest, Organize, Celebrate: May Day 2025 in Portland

Portland Mercury ·

2025/04/30

The federal government’s attacks on workers, immigrants, and marginalized people make May Day all the more relevant and important. by Taylor Griggs This Thursday is May Day—also known as International Workers’ Day—and Portland is showing up. From a rally hosted by the Portland Association of Teachers on May 1 to weekend events for the working stiffs who can't call out, Portlanders have options for how they

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Oregon Book Awards: Literary Arts Recognizes Genre...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/04/29

Portlanders Kimberly King Parsons and Charity E. Yoro are among the 2025 winners. by Suzette Smith We have a new cadre of Oregon Book Award winners, the prized title bestowed upon the state's storytellers by letters-loving nonprofit Literary Arts. In addition to seven awards for works in specific genre categories, the organization also recognized the founders of two reading-focused efforts—Street Books and A Kids

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PSA Signs Still Suck

Portland Mercury ·

2025/04/29

by Anonymous Reading the caption to one of the many PSA ads plastered around town that reads: "Look at the age difference between me and the man I'm travelling with. He's not my Dad, He's my trafficker." This literally targets any single parent walking around with a child. How does this help anyone? Honestly, it makes me warry of those ultra paranoid folks who're quick to act on reporting false suspions and are always calling the police

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Messages from the Missed

Portland Mercury ·

2025/04/29

by Anonymous I wait. Not because I am afraid, not because I doubt, but because I understand what it means to honor both you and myself. I won’t move first. I won’t stretch myself thin trying to be seen. I know the shape of my own heart, and I know it deserves someone who chooses to move toward it. This waiting is not silence, not surrender. It is a calm rooted in self-knowledge. I want someone who steps forward. Not out of obligation or

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Mercury Music Picks: Michael Hurley Memorial and...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/04/29

Plus big rave energy, hardcore, and Portland music news. by Nolan Parker Mercury Music Picks is all-city, baby! There’re shows represented in this week’s MMP in all five quadrants. There’s not much better in this life than catching an early show, jumping on your bike to mash across town, and arriving just in time to catch another band you’ve been dying to see. We rag on our public transit, but when compared to

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SAVAGE LOVE: Code Red

Portland Mercury ·

2025/04/29

"Gingerism" is a THING. And it's made this red-head's sexual life unnecessarily complicated. by Dan Savage I’m a 33-year-old bisexual redheaded cis woman from Europe. Last week, I stumbled across the word “gingerism,” and an important part of my life clicked into place. I went down a rabbit hole of stories from other redheads who, like me, have been bullied, hypersexualized, and treated like mythical creatures

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Good Morning, News: Canada's Surprise Left Turn,...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/04/29

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! Today’s forecast says we’ll get sunshine later this afternoon through this evening, after intermittent rain showers

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Carry On

Portland Mercury ·

2025/04/29

by Anonymous The rain tapped soft rhythms against the window, the breeze slipping in to kiss our skin. We weren’t still. Our limbs tangled and shifting, slow like tides, our dog circling, sighing, settling again. Laughter bubbled up between us, quiet and close, as you leaned in to steal another kiss. The couch became a small world, a drifting island where we moved in murmurs and touches, brushing hair, tracing faces. Outside, the world

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