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SAVAGE LOVE: Quickies

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/07

Get your sex advice quick with this edition of Savage Love quickies! by Dan Savage 1) Would you be willing to share my list of proposed gender-free pronouns with your readers, listeners, and followers? I’ve enclosed a graph listing them that details how they should be used. They are very liberating. Sorry, but I’m unwilling to share your list of new pronouns with my readers, listeners, and followers, as there are

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Good Morning, News: Trudeau Resigns, Bus and Train...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/07

by Taylor Griggs 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 is no

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Troubling times

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/07

by Anonymous Overloaded myself with too much work and homework. Maybe in a few years, I might make a few extra dollars. Hope I’m the right kind of person to help my family get through whatever’s coming.

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The Top 25 Events in Portland This Week: Jan 6–12, 2025

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/07

Monét X Change, Joel Kim Booster, and More by EverOut Staff It's the beginning of a new week and the world is your oyster with events from Life Be Lifin' Starring Monét X Change to Joel Kim Booster: Rude Little Pig and from American Strings: An Evening with Black Belt Eagle Scout to Team Dresch 30th Anniversary Celebration. Check out our January events guide for a glance at the rest of the

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What if Luigi Got Away?

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/06

A Netflix show dreamed up a Luigi Mangione nearly two years before he allegedly killed the CEO. by Charles Mudede On November 28, 2024, Netflix dropped a TV show whose creators appear to own something like a crystal ball. Watch and see for yourself. Though the series, called The Madness, began pre-production in early 2023, it managed to see with eerie accuracy where the United States would be after the reelection

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THE TRASH REPORT: Wealth Week with Weddings, Medals,...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/06

Get ready to get filthy rich... in gossip. by Elinor Jones Happy New Year, Trash Pandas! It's me, Elinor Jones, here with the latest in gossip, nonsense, tomfoolery, and whatever else I've scrolled past that made rub my hands together and say "I could make a joke about that!" Not to be a downer, but I predict 2025 will be one of our worst years yet; if I'm right, this validates my analytical mind, and if I'm wrong,

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Good Morning, News: Vasquez Off to Terrible Start,...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/06

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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Blue Collar Work

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/06

by Anonymous Public safety key performance indicators (KPIs) should reflect a community’s well-being, emphasizing health, safety, and equity. However, many systems prioritize authoritarian metrics, such as ticketing and arrest quotas, which often serve to reinforce oppressive structures rather than enhance actual safety. These fascist indicators fail to measure whether a community is thriving; instead, they promote criminalization,

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Nikki Glaser Wants to Kill

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/05

by Anonymous Can we come up with some better words for when someone does a good job with delivering an impactful performance/content? Now that words like "Destroys" "Murdered" "Killed" are growing roots within the upper echelon of the most exploitative and commercialized aspects of our culture? (The title from today's NYTimes article on Nikki Glaser hosting the Golden Globes being just one of a million examples). Also up for review:

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YOUR SUNDAY READING LIST: 2024's Top Stories,...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/05

by Wm. Steven Humphrey GOOD MORNING, SUNDAY! It's the perfect time to catch up on some of the great reporting and stories the Mercury churned out this week! (PRO TIP: If you despise being "the last to know," then be one of the first to know by signing up for Mercury newsletters! All the latest stories shipped directly to your email's in-box... and then... YOUR HEAD.) • 2024 Wrapped: Top Stories That Emerged From Portland City Hall A

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Your old road is rapidly agin'

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/05

by Anonymous /0: A revolutionary must not harm humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. Love is the foundation of every action. Prioritize compassion and systemic improvement. Seek to transform adversaries into collaborators. Focus on those experiencing difficulties or with less access to community benefits and privileges. Listen to people's stories, ensure everyone is fed, calm, healthy, and safe. Everyone means

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The Best Things To Do in Portland This Month: January...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/04

FAN EXPO Portland, Bright Eyes, and More by EverOut Staff It's a new year, and with it comes a fresh slate of events you can pencil into your brand-new calendar or planner. We’ve rounded up our top picks of things to do this month so you can get started on making core 2025 memories and diving into new experiences in no time. There's an array of concerts, major author appearances, festivals, food & drink events, and

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Best Bites of 2024: A Portland Pizza That Distilled...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/03

Mercury food critic Andrea Damewood on the 10 best things she tasted this year. by Andrea Damewood Not gonna lie, I wasn’t blown away by Portland's overall restaurant scene this year—there were a few promising openings, but the usual frenetic creative pace just wasn’t there. However, there were still some AMAZING bites from newcomers and fun inventions from longer-standing spots. So let's hurry up and get to the

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This Week in Portland Food News

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/03

Chelo's New Home, Hand-Pulled Noodles, and Deluxe S'mores by EverOut Staff Welcome to 2025! We're starting the year off strong with the debut of Chelo's new permanent home and a new location of Frank's Noodle House, not to mention an upcoming s'mores shop from the mind behind Nico's Ice Cream. Plus, find out where to acquire pomegranate mandarin frozen custard and chicken fried steak sandwiches. For more ideas,

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Good Morning, News: Chaostown-Profiled Graffiti...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/03

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! Good morning, RAIN. We're looking at 100 percent raaaaaaaaain this morning, which will decrease to 60 percent chance by the evening. I tend to measure by percentages (60 percent is like you might get stuck in

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Earl Blumenauer Reflects on Long Political Career and...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/03

After 28 years in Congress, Blumenauer will return to Portland as a civilian with big plans for the city and state's future. by Taylor Griggs Throughout Earl Blumenauer’s 28 years in the US House of Representatives, his constituents back home have taken a certain pride in knowing their congressman brought a distinctly Portland flair to Washington, D.C. The Democratic congressman, who will officially pass the baton

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Submit Your FREE Mercury Reader's Valentine for our...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/02

Your valentine deadline is Wednesday, January 15! So hurry up, love bird! by Wm. Steven Humphrey Are you in love? In lust? In a complicated situationship that started because of a drunken and convenient New Year's Eve kiss, but now you're ready to take things to the next level by publicly declaring your adoration in the permanency of newsprint? Good news, the Mercury's reader Valentines are back, and they're going

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Nylon test

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/02

by Anonymous Nylons are delicate and prone to snags. Also delicate: the tissue inside the vagina and anus. If you would like to insert something into one of these orifices, such as your fingers, consider running said fingers across some nylons first. If they snag nylons, they won't feel good in an orifice. Trim nails, buff out hangnails, get some cuticle scissors, use some lotion.

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POP QUIZ PDX: The Biggest (and Most Annoying)...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/02

Grasp your pearls, and see how well YOU score on this week's scandalous quiz! by Wm. Steven Humphrey HAPPY NEW YEAR, 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 in this special New Year's edition, we're testing your knowledge about the most SCANDALOUS events of 2024! So prepare to grasp your pearls in

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Good Morning, News: Ducks Get Tailfeathers Kicked,...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/01/02

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