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What's Happening With the Live Nation Development in...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/13

The next stage in the fight might be "throwing things at it to see what sticks." by Suzette Smith The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand our world. If you appreciate

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Do you worship wage slavery?

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/08

by AnonymousDo you think it’s morally good to go to work, regardless of what it is? Do you malign people who don’t, for any reason? Do you believe the rich earned it, or that the cops are just misunderstood, no matter who they hurt? Do you prize cruelty’s inertia, defending every new malice with blithe superiority? Would you stand with a compassionate transformation, or do you fear that it would hold you to account?

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I see how wonderful you are, wish you would too

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/08

by Anonymous I've never had to praise you because of what you create. You hold this weird spot in my heart that I can't shake. Sometimes I think you'd be so easy to love, but I fear you'd be afraid of it..I can't help but feel no matter what, we always reconnect. Life can be scary and good too. I just want to type you letters on my typewriter and tell you that I think your amazing and only until recently, that damn crush is stronger and

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Women-Owned Restaurants in Portland You Should Visit

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/08

For Women's History Month 2025 and Beyond by EverOut Staff While you can, and should, support women-owned restaurants every day of the year, there are a couple of especially good times to do it, including the entirety of March (Women's History Month) and March 8 in particular (International Women's Day). To help you celebrate, we've compiled this list of some of our favorite restaurants owned by women, like Chelo

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My bike crashed your scooter

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/08

by Anonymous About 8am on Wednesday March 5 I was riding south along the river near the fountain at Tom McCall Waterfront park while you were riding north on an electric scooter. I'm still hurt pretty badly, but you seemed ok right away. However, your scooter suffered at least a broken left handlebar. We went our separate ways. I wish we had exchanged information because I'd like to help pay for the damage to your scooter. If you see

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Only Love Can Do That

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/08

by Anonymous Let us rise, as the mighty current of love and hope, united against the forces of violence and anger, which seek to shatter our spirit and fragment our communities. We stand as a testament to the strength that comes from peace—a strength that is born of the refusal to yield to destructive impulses that are the hallmark of a system steeped in injustice and despair. In the face of oppression, when the system thrusts upon us

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Oregon Senate Bill Aims to Address Greenwashing

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/08

The bill has been criticized as overly broad and difficult to enforce, but environmental advocates say truthful marketing is crucial to addressing the climate crisis. by Taylor Griggs As the effects of the climate crisis become increasingly clear, the market for “eco-friendly” products has become more and more lucrative, and politically significant. From household cleaner brands to gas utility companies, many

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The People Who Killed Joy

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/07

by Anonymous The trouble with America is that, somewhere along the way, its people murdered whatever joy they could and should have had. Despite the bounty the land provided in great measure, they carped endlessly and craved the time of a Camelot that never was. Despite the benefits of a geography that protected them from foreign encroachment, they railed against invading armies of immigrants and the lack of secure borders. Despite the

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Checking in

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/07

by Anonymous I’m not doing that bad. Just feeling kind of hollowed out. My kid’s dad lost his job due to the tariffs. Just one notch closer and it looks like one of them already hit us. All I do is work. Feels like I barely get a day off, just an extra couple lunch breaks. Gonna take a nap now. About to start week ten of the second Econ class. Then I do math and whatever other class I signed up for. That’ll be one year down and about

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A Case for the Existence of God in a Mortgage Brokerage

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/07

A Case for the Existence of God never proves the existence of God, but it does make a case. by John Rudoff Though it is named A Case for the Existence of God, Samuel Hunter's tight two-person play evades the didactic destiny of such a title—one where characters argue theological positions on a darkened stage, possibly while positioned on folding chairs. Instead, we meet Ryan (Isaac Lamb) and Keith (Charles Grant)

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How the F$&@?

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/07

by Anonymous How the fuck is any officer who beat and pepper sprayed journalists and legal observers not in prison much less still on the force. Five years on these violent criminals should just now be getting released into parole and halfway houses. Cops are bullies. All of them. They may, I stress may, be reasonable people IRL but when the uniform goes on they are thugs to a man. (I think this less likely with female officers). They

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This Week in Portland Food News

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/07

A Vegan Fast-Food Drive-Thru, Hawaiian Plate Lunches, and Goth Frozen Custard by EverOut Staff This week's batch of food news brings a vegan fast-food joint that promises to contend with McDonald's and a destination for satisfying Hawaiian-style plate lunches. Plus, find out about vegan shamrock shakes and an upcoming witchy frozen custard shop. For more ideas, check out our food and drink guide. OPENINGS Black

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

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/07

35th Annual Buckman Art Show & Sell, Song Suffragettes PNW, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15 by EverOut Staff There's a couple things to have on your radar for this weekend: One, don't forget to turn your clocks forward for Daylight Saving Time on Sunday, and two, kick off Women's History Month at events like Song Suffragettes PNW: A Celebration of Female Songwriters and International Women's Day

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Good Morning, News: SRT Staff Call Program...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/07

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! Writing up this newsblast in a cafe that started the day with a nice, loud "Violet" by Hole. Whatever you feel about Courtney Love, that's a hell of a fucking song—a perfect rock yell if there ever was one

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The Best Part of Mickey 17 Is the Dying

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/07

Bong Joon-ho added 10 extra deaths to his new sci-fi movie, and it was a good editorial call. by HR Smith It is extremely on-brand that, in adapting the sci-fi novel Mickey 7, director Bong Joon-ho decided to kill the protagonist 10 more times. If you’ve seen Bong’s movies before, you could probably see this coming. In this film, as in his other sci-fi films like Snowpiercer and Okja, villains aren’t just evil,

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Ticket Alert: The Offspring, The Head and the Heart,...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/06

Plus, Tash Sultana and More Event Updates for March 6 by EverOut Staff It’s that time of the week to get into all of the newly announced events you should know about. The Offspring are supercharging their North American tour with support from Jimmy Eat World and New Found Glory. PNW indie folk band The Head and the Heart have dropped dates for their Aperture tour. Plus, Australian multi-talent Tash Sultana comes to

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The Promises and Perils of TriMet’s Safety Response Team

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/06

Former and current staff say the program, which TriMet launched as part of an initiative to reimagine public safety in 2021, is exploitative of employees and hasn’t lived up to its potential. by Taylor Griggs When TriMet launched its Safety Response Team in 2021, sending unarmed workers trained in de-escalation onto Portland’s public transit system, the agency emphasized the program as part of a wider

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

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/06

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: City Settles with Journalists...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/06

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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Regarding the Dictatorship of Capital

Portland Mercury ·

2025/03/06

by Anonymous I walk past the Vern, and the alleyway door is conspicuously covered in human feces. Dysentery is on the rise, not because people don't wash their ass so much as because they are prevented from doing so, for want of shelter, for want of the means of hygiene that the mechanisms of profit and privation deny them. People make Oregon Trail jokes and I wonder, is this a joke to you? I walk by corpses in the cold because I have to

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